Video Game Spending for the First Quarter of 2020 Was the Highest in US History - IGN
During the first quarter of 2020, United States consumer spending on video game products reached the highest total in U.S. history, according to The NPD Group.The NPD Group calls this year’s first qu…
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Les jeux vidéo comme objet de recherche. Médium, ludique et pédagogique. Mises en récit et rapports au monde de Civilisation à Lara Croft (Tom Raider)
►https://sms.hypotheses.org/16121
#gamestudies #videogames #jeuxvidéo #histoire #mondes
What’s your favorite old-school video game?
▻https://hackernoon.com/whats-your-favorite-old-school-video-game-893583fc4da6?source=rss----3a8
Feel free to define “old-school” any way you like. by austin pocus. continue discussion at community.hackernoon.comI’m personally curious to hear which games the HN community holds dear.My favorite has to be Chrono Trigger. It has artwork by Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball fame, time travel, talking frogs…all the essential elements are there. It’s the quintessential JRPG — if you haven’t tried it, I can’t recommend it enough.Honorable mention: Final Fantasy VI. It was by far the most epic RPG of its time (over a dozen playable characters!) and it still holds up today as one of the best RPGs of all time.What are your favorite old-school games? What makes them so great?continue discussion at community.hackernoon.comWhat’s your favorite old-school video game? was originally published in Hacker Noon on (...)
#old-school-video-game #old-school-gaming #gaming #old-video-games #videogames
#religion and the Simulation Hypothesis, Part 2: Is Karma a Questing Algorithm?
▻https://hackernoon.com/religion-and-the-simulation-hypothesis-part-2-is-karma-a-questing-algori
Do Video Games and the Matrix provide a scientific basis for religious beliefs? (part 2)NOTE: On the 20thanniversary of the release of the movie, the Matrix, MIT and Stanford grad Rizwan Virk is releasing his book, The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientists Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics Agree We Are In a Video Game, which explores the scientific, philosophic and religious implications of this important theory.“Know all things to be like this:A mirage, a cloud castle, a dream, an apparition, without essence, but with qualities that can be seen;As a magician makes illusions of horses, oxen, carts, and other things, nothing is at it appears.”- BuddhaIn Part I of this series, Religion and the Simulation Hypothesis: Is God an AI?, we looked at the implications of (...)
#reincarnation #videogames #hackernoon-top-story #simulation-hypothesis
The Live Stream Hack with Peter Yang formerly of Twitch
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-live-stream-hack-with-peter-yang-formerly-of-twitch-3c60e6aec718?sou
Episode 23 of the Hacker Noon #podcast: An interview with Peter Yang, former Product Manager at Twitch.Today’s show would not be possible without Digital Ocean.Listen to the interview on iTunes, or Google Podcast, or watch on YouTube.In this episode Trent Lapinski and Peter Yang discuss the live streaming market including the differences between the US and Chinese markets, video game streaming, and product management.“Live streaming is about long form content, interactive content, content you can talk to your viewers about or talk to other streamers about.”“It is about creating these jobs for people who might not enjoy a white collar job, or driving Uber or something, who just really enjoy playing videos.”“Why not make a career out of playing video games? Being able to connect with other people (...)
#videogames #product-management #hackernoon-podcast #live-streaming
A year as a full time indie: #business advice for the ones starting.
▻https://hackernoon.com/a-year-as-a-full-time-indie-business-advice-for-the-ones-starting-64d8ba
My journey as an entrepreneur began a year ago. In this time I have learned some lessons that I’d like to share with you.When you read stories about indie developers you usually see:Postmortems of games: What went wrong, what went right, and some lessons learned on the way.Disaster stories: people that tried and fail miserably, run out of money after 6 months, etc.Very successful stories: Minecraft, Stardew Valley, etc.But usually not so many people tell the story from the point of view of the business. After a year running my indie studio I’ve also noticed that a lot of people really know how to make a game (and do it very well!) but don’t know the basics of the business. And it is sad because I see a lot of talented people that fail because they didn’t take in account the basic business (...)
The State of #ethereum-based Video Games
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-state-of-ethereum-based-video-games-46fd12b9cd50?source=rss----3a814
An increasingly large number of influencers are arguing that games will help facilitate mass adoption of blockchains, and that blockchains will significantly disrupt the gaming industry.The highest number of games are currently being on built on Ethereum’s #blockchain, so I decided to take a look at some of the most interesting Ethereum-based projects, cut through the hype, and briefly review what’s actually being developed.Companies, Studios, and GamesStudio: Lucid SightCrypto Space Commander▻https://medium.com/media/216fbeca4f7358bae7653c2be782f60b/hrefCrypto Space Commander is a Massively Multiplayer Online game (MMO) where players build a fleet of spaceships, collect resources, craft items, and battle with pirates and other players as they travel the stars.A majority of gameplay takes (...)
The Game-Ending, Keyboard-Breaking, World of Lag (and how to fix it)
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-game-ending-keyboard-breaking-world-of-lag-and-how-to-fix-it-3a5c524
If you’ve ever played an online multiplayer game, you’ve probably suffered from some sort of lag. When Ronaldo is kicking the referee in Fifa 18 (instead of the ball) or your character in Counter-Strike starts teleporting around into different walls, its the nasty result of high latency, the slow connection speed from the games servers to your #gaming system. And this isnt a trivial problem. Newsweek wrote about Fortnite’s game-breaking update that introduced lag effects while building and graphic rednering issues that made the game “almost unplayable”. There are 1000’s of videos on YouTube that show hilarious (and soul-crushing) moments of defeat, as gamers lose control over their characters and die mysteriously in the heat of an intense skirmish.Jitter, lag, and slow ping are all results (...)
Top video game development companies in the world
▻https://hackernoon.com/top-video-game-development-companies-in-the-world-da64c9816e33?source=rs
The game industry is booming. Especially among small, independent development companies. Let’s take a look at some companies I’m keeping an eye on.I’ve ranked top game development companies, basing the list on games, as well as the number of existing players and uniqueness.VironITVironIT is a video game development company that uses a well-balanced set of technology skills to build incredible game experiences.VironIT game development teams delivers authentic #gaming experiences and services across PC, mobile, console, VR and AR platforms. It also offers state-of-the-art game development, using specific gaming engines like Unity and Unreal Engine. Also, they have have created a game cost calculator.The company uses the broad experience to ensure that clients have the best technical (...)
#mobile-app-development #video-game-dev-companies #video-game-development #videogames
Video Games and The Motivational #brain
▻https://hackernoon.com/video-games-and-the-motivational-brain-f7497f60e985?source=rss----3a8144
Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Dr. Marc Lewis, who studies the psychology and #neuroscience of #addiction. After years of active research, Marc now talks, writes, and blogs about the science and experience of addiction and how people outgrow it. Visit his website here.You’ve just obliterated the last seven or eight zombies. It was a narrow escape and you’re flushed with satisfaction. But you didn’t see that horrendous creep, weaping sores and oozing pus, because he was hidden behind the dustbin in the shadow of a bombed out building. You get slimed, you’re dead. Or worse than dead. So you touch the “play again” bar at the bottom of the screen. Now you start further ahead than last time. You know you’re going to meet the slime-master again. Soon. Be prepared.Or you’ve crossed the desert and (...)
Liu’s Game: A Story of Game Financing in the Future
▻https://hackernoon.com/lius-game-a-story-of-game-financing-in-the-future-b6ed85dda3c4?source=rs
The below is not a true story, rather, a characterisation of a not-too-unrealistic scenario that will soon be available in the not-too-distant future.Liu, 42, is an experienced game developer who has just formed a new company with some of her old co-workers. They have a great idea for a new game, which they estimate will take about two years and $5 million US dollars to complete.Traditionally, the market of game financing is dominated by a relatively small number of individuals and companies. The risky nature of game production — high costs, intersection of many disciplines and competitive market leading to a lack of certainty of success — has led to this situation.She examines the financing landscape and observes that she has a number of options:Big publishers — But they typically only deal (...)
#videogames #game-development #blockchain #ethereum #blockchain-gaming
3 Innovative Ways the #blockchain can Ramp up Your In-game Revenue
▻https://hackernoon.com/3-innovative-ways-the-blockchain-can-ramp-up-your-in-game-revenue-c00cc9
Game development is a high-risk, high-reward business that requires substantial investments in programming, math, and sound and graphic design. So developers are understandably wary of committing to, and spending money on, an additional technology such as the blockchain. The good news is that there are some awesome projects underway aiming to make it easy and seamless to integrate the blockchain into your games.In-game items and payments are being decentralized. With the right tools, you won’t just get access to helpful new technology. You’ll be opening up your games to a truly global #gaming community. However, to do it right, you’re going to have to be part of a massive industry rework.Making money from gamesThe Internet has completely changed the economics of the video game industry. It (...)
Roberta Williams 2017, auteure de jeux vidéos à partir des années 70, fondatrice de Sierra On-line / Sierra Entertainment (maintenant groupe Blizzard).
Parmi ses jeux les plus connus :
– Mystery House (1980- Apple 2) et par conséquent inventeuse du genre « jeu d’aventure graphique ».
– La série Kings Quest (1984-1998 + 2015…).
– Phantasmagoria (1995).
Game Awards 2014.
Et donc après, Sierra Entertainement, c’est une tétrachiée de jeux.
Toute sa biblio :
▻http://www.sierragamers.com/roberta-williams
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@rastapopoulos et les autres…
On jouait à ça avec un copain qui l’avait, au collège, en 5ème ou 4ème, c’était un peu gore (bon maintenant les gosses voient bien pires au même âge avec les internets…)
Profession : « reporter en chef » pour un jeu vidéo
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2017/03/09/profession-reporter-en-chef-pour-un-jeu-video_5092020_4408996.html
« Les routes empruntées par les camions qui passent influent sur le cours de la bourse. Il y a deux grandes entreprises dans l’univers du jeu, et si on fait exploser un camion, l’une d’elles n’est plus ravitaillée, le cours de l’action de l’autre explose. Un système influe sur un autre. C’est du génie. »
Mais pour cela, connaître le monde et ses rouages est indispensable, et il faut avoir les moyens de le documenter.
C’est, jure-t-il, la raison qui l’a fait rester à Ubisoft depuis plus de dix ans
Je suis bien d’accord avec la citation suivante (sauf qu’en 8 ans ici, je n’ai jamais vu personne mettre de la coca dans du café)
Quand je vais en Bolivie parler aux Boliviens, je réalise que la cocaïne, c’est pas juste un truc d’Amérique du Sud, c’est aussi une forme de colonialisme pour les petits cons blancs dans les boîtes de nuit de Miami et de Paris qui s’en mettent plein le nez. Alors qu’en Bolivie, avant d’être une drogue récréative, la coca, on en met dans le café, cela sert d’offrande dans la religion, on l’utilise contre le mal des montagnes... Rien n’est blanc ou noir.
Passionant article qui relate les liens entre les gouvernements boliviens et le trafic de drogue, entre 1971 (début de la dictature de Banzer) et 2002 (début de la fin du néo-libéralisme)
▻http://www.lostiempos.com/oh/actualidad/20161003/huanchaca-30-anos-mayor-narco-crisis-boliviana
Qu’en dis tu, @louca ?
L’expérience en jeu vidéo favorable bien plus qu’avant en entretien d’embauche.
Attention, votre vie est devenue un jeu vidéo
▻http://www.gqmagazine.fr/culture-web/hi-tech-story/articles/la-societe-gamifiee-attention-votre-vie-est-devenue-un-jeu-video/24388
Je préfère recruter un très bon joueur de World of Warcraft (WoW) que quelqu’un qui a décroché un MBA à Harvard
Ma double vie de paladin numérique, niveau 70. "J’ai mentionné toutes ces qualifications sur mon CV. J’ai dit : “Voilà ma guilde, voilà mon ranking, voilà les principales missions online que j’ai menées.” En voyant ça, certains s’exclament : “Mais qu’est-ce que c’est que ce bordel ?”. Alors que d’autres se disent au contraire : “Voilà, c’est exactement le profil que je cherchais !”"
Un bon joueur a d’excellents réflexes, une faculté à identifier une situation comme bonne ou mauvaise et un certain sang-froid.
#recrutement #compétence #démystification #jeu_video #videogame
Philosophie du jeu vidéo
Mathieu Triclot , Maître de conférences en philosophie à l’Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard.
►http://lille1tv.univ-lille1.fr/videos/video.aspx?id=e885ad3d-2232-4b3f-9370-592dc8992705
Que vient faire la philosophie dans les études sur les jeux vidéo ? La conférence présentera un état des lieux des recherches actuelles sur les jeux vidéo, à travers une cartographie des grandes querelles théoriques en cours. Elle reviendra en particulier sur le rôle important, et sans doute inattendu, que joue la philosophie dans ces nouveaux domaines d’étude chez différents auteurs. Nous proposerons ensuite quelques échantillons de travaux récents : sur la question de la transe, des émotions et du rythme ou, encore, sur les croisements entre réalité virtuelle et phénoménologie.
#Apprentissage #Education #Interaction #Jeu #Jeux_sérieux #Jeux_vidéo #Philosophie #Recherche_appliquée #Social #videogame
Croteam passe tous les Serious Sam sous API Vulkan
▻http://www.comptoir-hardware.com/actus/jeux-video/33500-croteam-passe-tous-les-serious-sam-sous-api-vulkan.html
Croteam, c’est le studio qui aime la testostérone et ne fait pas les choses à moitié, la série des Serious Sam en est la preuve (mais ils ont aussi un côté intello qu’ils réservent à The Talos Principle). Du coup, lorsqu’ils communiquent sur l’avenir de leurs jeux, ils le font à fond et les révélations ne sont pas légères... [Tout lire]
Brianna Wu running for US Congress in 2018
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2016-12-21-brianna-wu-running-for-us-congress-in-2018
Already on the team is sci-fi author and Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow, with Wu planning to add “legal experts on cyber-bullying and revenge porn” soon. As and when she formally runs, Wu will step back from her role at her studio Giant Spacekat.
Même personne :
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brianna_Wu
Brianna Wu is an American video game developer and computer programmer. She cofounded Giant Spacekat, an independent video game development studio with Amanda Warner in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also a blogger and podcaster on matters relating to the video game industry.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/278442 @grommeleur #harcèlement
@alda
#historicisation #femmes #videogames #jeux_video #gamergate
GDC responds to Trump’s travel ban, refunds affected attendees
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-01-30-gdc-responds-to-trumps-travel-ban-refunds-affected-attende
Organisers of upcoming developer conference says they are “horrified” by President’s decision
The president has ordered a 90-day ban to anyone attempting to enter the United States from seven countries - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - all of which are predominantly Muslim. It is a move that has been met with widespread disapproval.
Impossibilité d’entrer sur le territoire pour les participants de nombreux pays, pendant 3 mois.
La convention hurle au racisme.
#immigration #visa #USA #trump #politique #videogames #jeux_video #muslimban
Toutes les consoles dans votre salon avec Recalbox (émulation) - Pingoo
▻http://www.pingoo.com/2017/01/21/toutes-les-consoles-dans-votre-salon-avec-recalbox-emulation
#jeu_vidéo #videogames #emulation #diy
Je croyais à un reportage foireux sur l’ e-sport , mais comme ça passe bien, je le garde.
Jeu vidéo : retour sur la fabuleuse histoire de « League of Legends »
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/video/2016/12/09/jeu-video-retour-sur-la-fabuleuse-histoire-de-league-of-legends_5046535_4408
Vidéo :
▻http://www.ultimedia.com/deliver/generic/iframe/mdtk/01637594/src/83rlzr/zone/1/showtitle/1
Autour de League of Legends, de la compétition internationale à
sa commercialisation.
Vous remarquerez les détails du monde du sport qui ont contaminé celui des jeux vidéo internationaux :
La voix off molle de commentateur sportif, la starisation, les mercato et autres gros sous, les petites tapes sur le croupion (car bon, c’est des sportifs maintenant, faut regarder leur dentition avant d’acheter), le découpage genré…
#esport #jeuvidéo #videogame #nolife
Nom d’un déchet nucléaire, voila un « jeu » pas comme les autres.
Son objectif : faire comprendre ce qu’est la Dépression .
GRATUIT
Depression Quest
▻http://the-quinnspiracy.itch.io/depressionquest
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people.
#videogame #jeuvideo #maladie #mentale #care #education #streetmedic
Mini Metro , un simulateur minimaliste de transport en métro.
▻http://dinopoloclub.com/minimetro
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJHKzzPtDDI
Prince of Persia Source Code, Open Sourced
►http://thechangelog.com/post/21314257945/prince-of-persia-source-code-open-sourced
Before Prince of Persia was a best-selling video game franchise and a Jerry Bruckheimer movie, it was an Apple II computer game created and programmed by one person, Jordan Mechner.
Not only is Prince of Persia now available as a paperback and ebook, but the source is now on GitHub!
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC3WEwSJoHs&feature=player_embedded
Le source en question : ►https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II Très bon README de l’auteur.
It’s been close to thirty years since video games began their great leap from arcades to living rooms, and for all of those years parents and pediatricians have been counseling that kids spend too much time sitting on the sofa, controllers glued ...
►http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/kotaku/full/~3/kQeWZZXZFRQ/wii-fit-doesnt-actually-make-kids-fit
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#videogames #health #obesity