Data-Driven Games
a whole new genre of games ( maybe even board games, but not necessarily ) that is driven by data.
the games can be educational, cynical, critical or even non-sense ( for example mixing unrelated data sets ). the data can be designed into the game ( for example creating a map to play on ) or can be gathered and evaluated while playing the game ( for example through an iphone app ).
the source, context or ‘meaning’ of the data can be used as a setting but also as structure, pattern or environment.
interesting data sets could be:
- datasets from greenpeace
- datasets from fukushima
- datasets of germany’s GDP
an example: fukushima