1. SemFun
Laurenţiu Taşchinã, Ana Filimon
{laurentiu.taschina, ana.filimon}@info.uaic.ro

2. Overview
• What is SemFun?
• Rules of SemFun
• Draw in SemFun
• About SemFun
• Technologies
• Conclusion

3. What is SemFun?
• Interactive browser based game
• Multiplayer support
• Helps you improve your RDF/OWL/etc
knowledge ☺

4. Start Page

5. Rules of SemFun
• You start with 100 hitpoints (hp)
• You lose 10hp if you answer incorrectly
• You gain 1hp if you answer correctly
• You lose 5ph if you don’t answer
• First to reach 0 loses
• If by some chance one player reaches 200
that player instantly wins

6. Player vs. Player

7. One winner

8. Draw in SemFun
• If both player reach 0 at the same time,
the game ends in a draw
• If both players reach 200 at the same time,
the game also ends in a draw

9. Draw

10. About SemFun
• SemFun is a survival game, where you
have to use your wits and your knowledge
of web technologies to stay in the game.
• Since you lose more then you gain,
players are encouraged to learn fast, to
stay in the game.

11. About SemFun
• In SemFun each question has only one
possible answer, and there is always a
correct answer.
• This is designed to encouraged unskilled
players.

12. Technologies
• jQuery / ajax
– state polling client side
– transparent updates
• PHP / Kohana 3
– Hierarchical MVC
• NoSQL
• Oauth / Twitter

13. Conclusion
• Unlike a normal Q/A game, SemFun tries
to stimulate learning by shifting the focus
away from getting a high score, and
instead over to not getting a low hitpoint
count.

14. End.