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

1. Data games
Øredev, November 7, 2013, Malmö
Marie Gustafsson Friberger
Department of Computer Science
Malmö University

5. How can we engage
people to understand and
make sense of this data?

6. p://www.flickr.com/photos/pneumatic_transpo
2346993608/
data-games?

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).

8. Open Data Monopoly

10. OpenTrumps

11. Bar Chart Ball

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