UrbanGames - Concept and Design
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UrbanGames - Concept and DesignIrene Celino, Simone Contessa,
Marta Corubolo, Daniele Dell'Aglio, Emanuele Della Valle, Stefano Fumeo
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Agenda
• State of the art
• Food for thought
• Concept generation and evaluation
• Selected concept: Urbanopoly
• Early prototype
• Next steps
PlanetData - UrbanGames - 2012/02/06 Luxembourg meeting
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State of the art analysis
• GWAPs & Semantic GWAPs
• Urban location-based games
• Linked data quality
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Food for thought
• Urban data (maps, POIs, etc.)� inspiration for game purpose
• Urban-related initiatives (History Pin, World without oil, WhaiWhai, etc.)� inspiration for game "mood"
• Traditional game mechanisms (Tower Defense, Monopoly, etc.)� inspiration for game "mechanics"
PlanetData - UrbanGames - 2012/02/06 Luxembourg meeting
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Concept generation and evaluation
Iterative generation and evaluation of concepts
• Generation: starting from simple game ideas to more complex game mechanics
• Evaluation: SWOT analysis and criteria-based assessment
PlanetData - UrbanGames - 2012/02/06 Luxembourg meeting
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Selected concept: Urbanopoly
• Simple check-in and trade operations with challenges as well as random events
• Based on Monopoly mechanics
• Starting from OpenStreetMap data
• "Virtual hotels" and "prestige POIs"
• Purpose: correct/collect reliable information about urban POIs
PlanetData - UrbanGames - 2012/02/06 Luxembourg meeting
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Early prototype ☺☺☺☺
PlanetData - UrbanGames - 2012/02/06 Luxembourg meeting
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Next steps
• Architectural choice: thin vs. thick client
• Incremental implementation
• Incremental testing/assessment
• Target: have a stable version in less than 2 months
• Thourough user evaluation campaign (both for "purpose" and "playability")
PlanetData - UrbanGames - 2012/02/06 Luxembourg meeting
Thanks for your attention!
Irene Celino
Semantic Web Group
CEFRIEL – ICT Institute,
Politecnico di Milano