SERIOUS GAMES
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Soyons sérieux, jouons! (5/5) : Le jeu est l’arme de la subversion
Par Rémi Sussan le 30/03/10 | 14 commentaires | 3,578 lectures | Impression Agon, le conflit : c’est l’une des quatre catégories employées par l’écrivain Roger Caillois (en compagnie de Alea, le hasard ; Mimicry, le faire semblant ; Ilinx, le vertige) dans sa classification des jeux pour spécifier leur nature. Mais l’Agon possède aujourd’hui une résonance particulière dans le jeu car il devient lui même une dimension du combat.
Searching the Brain for the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving
But who wants to troll? Let lightning strike. Let the clues suddenly coalesce in the brain — “field!” — as they do so often for young children solving a riddle. As they must have done, for that matter, in the minds of those early humans who outfoxed nature well before the advent of deduction, abstraction or SAT prep courses. Puzzle-solving is such an ancient, universal practice, scholars say, precisely because it depends on creative insight, on the primitive spark that ignited the first campfires.
Jeu vidéo - Article - Les serious games, un objet en construction
The cost of creating a serious game is estimated at between 30,000 and 1 million Euros, with an average of 200,000–500,000 Euros – five to six times less than the cost of producing a video gaming blockbuster, although the audience and the financial model are very different. Free distribution for the general public means that the costs must be borne further up the chain, and therefore incorporated into the budget lines, either into communication and advertising, or into training.
