UrbanGames - Concept and Design

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"


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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


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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


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Early prototype ☺☺☺☺


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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")


Thanks for your attention!

Irene Celino

Semantic Web Group

CEFRIEL – ICT Institute,

Politecnico di Milano

[email protected]

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