These are my two final year dissertations I wrote back when I was studying in ULB, Brussels Free University.
Multi-Player Online Games: Community Creation and Management in the move from niche market to mass market.
I wrote this first paper for my Socio-Cultural Mediation course. It focuses on multiplayer online games communities and their development. It analyses how the Community of Practice Theory(Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger) can help understand and formalise the community management process.
Download HERE (pdf, french), 2006.
“Sanity of Vlad: The Awakening”: story driven video game project
The second dissertation is a story driven video game project (paper only): “Sanity of Vlad” is a first person action adventure game focusing on Vladimir. He mysteriously wakes up in an unknown city, tied to a bed in a psychiatric facility, surrounded by hundreds of corpses. Set in Eastern Europe, the story follows Vlad’s path to uncover the events that led to the city destruction.
“Sanity of Vlad: The Awakening” is the first chapter of Vlad’s adventure. Designed to take advantage of an episodic structure (à la Half Life 2 Episodes), the game merges the narrative process into the action without ever imposing the player any form of cinematic narration.
Download HERE (pdf, french), 2006.