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

marie.friberger@mah.se@mariegus

Julian TogeliusIT University, Copenhagen

julian@togelius.com@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