Data games presenation at øredev 2013

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

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