Generating game content from open data

Friberger, Marie Gustafsson; Togelius, Julian

doi:10.1145/2282338.2282404

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“…The results showed how standard game mechanics can be applied to Open Data to provide useful and engaging educational experiences. The author of [32] contributed in her research to the ever-growing list of things that can be done with games by proposing, discussing, and exemplifying data games. Data games differ from most other types of serious games in as they do not (intentionally) have an agenda; they are tools for the player to use to explore data with as few constraints as possible.…”

Section: Development Of Open Data Tools For Educational Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering for the Design of a School Friendly Open Data Web Interface

Saddiqa¹,

Kirikova

Magnussen

et al. 2019

J. Complex Syst. Inform. Model. Q.

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Open Data is considered a key to scientific innovations. These freely available datasets can also be used as a foundation to enhance the digital and data literacies among the younger generation of school pupils. This article presents the design and prototype of an Open Data web interface based on the Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering (EAORE) approach for Open Data usage as an educational resource in Danish public schools. We first systematically review the literature on Open Data use in educational fields and selected 14 research articles with a particular focus on the use of Open Data in the educational domain after prescribing an inclusion/exclusion criteria on 101 research articles identified initially. The review indicates that there is a gap between Open Data opportunities within the educational domain and in exploring the use of Open Data as a source to develop twenty-first-century skills, specifically digital and data literacies among younger school pupils. To fill this gap, we propose an EAORE approach that represents how Enterprise Architecture (EA) models can guide the overall Requirements Engineering (RE) process for the use of Open Data in Danish public schools. Based on these EA models, we designed the prototype of an Open Data web interface for schools.

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Section: Development Of Open Data Tools For Educational Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering for the Design of a School Friendly Open Data Web Interface

Saddiqa¹,

Kirikova

Magnussen

et al. 2019

J. Complex Syst. Inform. Model. Q.

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“…Data games use freely available information to automatically generate game content [18]. This term was first proposed by Friberger and Togelius, describing a generator that transforms open data into Monopoly (Hasbro, 1935) boards [19].…”

Section: Data Gamesmentioning

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“…It makes sense that freely available data could be used to inform content generation and game generation algorithms, in effect helping them transform the real world into games. Such data-driven game content generation has been attempted under the moniker "data games" [18]. In particular, the Data Adventures series has explored ways of automatically creating adventure games in the style of Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?…”

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confidence: 99%

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Barros

Liapis

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games

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This paper introduces DATA Agent, a system which creates murder mystery adventures from open data. In the game, the player takes on the role of a detective tasked with finding the culprit of a murder. All characters, places, and items in DATA Agent games are generated using open data as source content. The paper discusses the general game design and user interface of DATA Agent, and provides details on the generative algorithms which transform linked data into different game objects. Findings from a user study with 30 participants playing through two games of DATA Agent show that the game is easy and fun to play, and that the mysteries it generates are straightforward to solve.

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“…OpenData Monopoly (Friberger y Togelius, 2012) es un generador de tableros para el renombrado juego de mesa que crea tableros y tarjetas basados en datos demográficos y geográficos de Reino Unido. Un conjunto de indicadores numéricos componen las variables del algoritmo que interactúa con el jugador con el fin de generar una visualización del mismo concepto de prosperidad.…”

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El videojuego como dispositivo tecnopolítico. El caso de “Juegos del Común”.

Carrubba

2018

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El presente articulo expone el proyecto “Juegos del Común” como caso de estudio para introducir la hipótesis de investigación según la cual los videojuegos se pueden considerar dispositivos tecnopolíticos. En el marco de esta investigación los videojuegos se presentan como herramientas comunicativas para fomentar la participación política haciendo especial hincapié en el uso de los datos abiertos como medio de creación videolúdica. Asimismo se presentan los fundamentos teóricos del proyecto y el debate académico alrededor de tres ejes temáticos: datos abiertos, data-games y tecnopolítica. A partir del diseño general del proyecto, que postula la creación de un sistema en línea para el acceso a los datos abierto del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y su posterior uso en programas informáticos de desarrollo de videojuegos, se presentan 4 videojuegos elaborados como prototipos en el marco del proyecto. Se presenta la metodología de creación y validación de los mismo recogiendo los resultados en términos de medio comunicativo con el fin de la transformación social sobre el tema de la vivienda. Finalmente se presenta una discusión alrededor de los temas tocados por el proyecto destacando las características propias de los videojuegos entendidos como dispositivos tecnopolíticos en cuanto procomunes digitales, señalando asimismo la necesidad de una ulterior investigación para validar en otros contextos urbanos los resultados encontrados y sus repercusiones a nivel de comunicación política y transformación social.

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Generating game content from open data

Cited by 14 publications

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Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering for the Design of a School Friendly Open Data Web Interface

Enterprise Architecture Oriented Requirements Engineering for the Design of a School Friendly Open Data Web Interface

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El videojuego como dispositivo tecnopolítico. El caso de “Juegos del Común”.

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