Data agent

MC Green, GAB Barros, A Liapis… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Diagram safari: A visualization literacy game for young children

J Gäbler, C Winkler, N Lengyel, W Aigner… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Data literacy has become a critical skill to deal with the complexities of the information-
driven society of the 21st century. At the same time, data visualization has long escaped the …

Who killed Albert Einstein? From open data to murder mystery games

GAB Barros, MC Green, A Liapis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a framework for generating adventure games from open data. Focusing
on the murder mystery type of adventure games, the generator is able to transform open …

Play and Viz: Using Entertainment Games for Exploring Data Visualizations

M Kejstova, T Stastna, S Kriglstein - … on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Effective communication through data visualizations faces challenges due to low
visualization literacy among the general audience. Data visualizations are increasingly used …

Communication model of open government data gamification based on Ukrainian websites

O Blazhko, T Luhova, S Melnik… - 2017 4th Experiment …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The article defines and characterizes the information-communicative model of gamification
of the governmental open data web portals as well as defines the factors that contribute to …

[PDF][PDF] Murder mystery generation from open data

GAB Barros, A Liapis… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - computationalcreativity.net
This paper describes a system for generating murder mysteries for adventure games, using
associations between real-world people mined from Wikipedia articles. A game is seeded …

Balanced civilization map generation based on open data

GAB Barros, J Togelius - 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates how to incorporate real-world data into game content so that the
content is playable and enjoyable while not misrepresenting the data. We propose a method …

Hybrid 3D rendering of large map data for crisis management

D Tully, A El Rhalibi, C Carter, S Sudirman - ISPRS International Journal …, 2015 - mdpi.com
In this paper we investigate the use of games technologies for the research and the
development of 3D representations of real environments captured from GIS information and …

[PDF][PDF] Data adventures

GAB Barros, A Liapis, J Togelius - 2015 - um.edu.mt
This paper outlines a system for generating adventure games based on open data, and
describes a sketch of the system implementation at its current state. The adventure game …

Data-driven design: A case for maximalist game design

GAB Barros, MC Green, A Liapis, J Togelius - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Maximalism in art refers to drawing on and combining multiple different sources for art
creation, embracing the resulting collisions and heterogeneity. This paper discusses the use …