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.org
7. 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).
12. 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!
13. data-games.org
Marie Gustafsson Friberger
Julian Togelius
Malmö University
IT University, Copenhagen
marie.friberger@mah.se
julian@togelius.com
@mariegus
@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