data games presenation at øredev 2013
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Short introduction to the topic of data games. Data games are games that allow the player to freely play with real-world data so as to explore and learn from it. Read more at data-games.orgTRANSCRIPT
Data games
Øredev, November 7, 2013, Malmö
Marie Gustafsson FribergerDepartment of Computer Science
Malmö University
How can we engage people to understand and make sense of this data?
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data-games?
Data games
Games that allow the player to freely play with real-world data so as to explore and learn from it.
With some automatic conversion of data from external sources into a form suitable for playing with (precedural content generation).
Open Data Monopoly
OpenTrumps
Bar Chart Ball
Next steps
• Further develop prototypes so that they can be evaluated, to learn who enjoys playing them, what they learn, etc.
• Look at automatic integration of data from new sources as well as how to transform data to be playable, interesting and possible to learn about.
• Find more partners!
data-games.org
Marie Gustafsson FribergerMalmö University
[email protected]@mariegus
Julian TogeliusIT University, Copenhagen
[email protected]@togelius
Thanks to students who have developed data games: Andrew Borg Cardona, Michele Ermacora, Anders Mousten, Martin
Møller Jensen, Virgil-Alexandu Tanase and Ulrik Brøndsted