DATA agent

Michael Cerny Green; Gabriella A.B. Barros; Antonios Liapis; Julian Togelius

doi:10.1145/3235765.3235792

DATA agent

Michael Cerny Green, Gabriella A.B. Barros, Antonios Liapis, Julian Togelius

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Abstract

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 culprit of a murder. All characters, places, and items in DATA Agent games are generated using open data as source content. The paper discusses the general game design and user interface of DATA Agent, and provides details on the generative algorithms which transform linked data into different game objects. Findings from a user study with 30 participants playing through two games of DATA Agent show that the game is easy and fun to play, and that the mysteries it generates are straightforward to solve.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2018
Editors	Sebastian Deterding, Mitu Khandaker, Sebastian Risi, Jose Font, Steve Dahlskog, Christoph Salge, Carl Magnus Olsson
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450365710
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235792
State	Published - Aug 7 2018
Event	13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2018 - Malmo, Sweden Duration: Aug 7 2018 → Aug 10 2018

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Other	13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2018
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Malmo
Period	8/7/18 → 8/10/18

Keywords

Adventure games
Data games
Murder mystery
Open data
Procedural content generation
Wikipedia

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Green, M. C., Barros, G. A. B., Liapis, A., & Togelius, J. (2018). DATA agent. In S. Deterding, M. Khandaker, S. Risi, J. Font, S. Dahlskog, C. Salge, & C. M. Olsson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2018 Article 19 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235792

DATA agent. / Green, Michael Cerny; Barros, Gabriella A.B.; Liapis, Antonios et al.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2018. ed. / Sebastian Deterding; Mitu Khandaker; Sebastian Risi; Jose Font; Steve Dahlskog; Christoph Salge; Carl Magnus Olsson. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. 19 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Green, MC, Barros, GAB, Liapis, A & Togelius, J 2018, DATA agent. in S Deterding, M Khandaker, S Risi, J Font, S Dahlskog, C Salge & CM Olsson (eds), Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2018., 19, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2018, Malmo, Sweden, 8/7/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235792

Green, Michael Cerny ; Barros, Gabriella A.B. ; Liapis, Antonios et al. / DATA agent. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, FDG 2018. editor / Sebastian Deterding ; Mitu Khandaker ; Sebastian Risi ; Jose Font ; Steve Dahlskog ; Christoph Salge ; Carl Magnus Olsson. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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