Title
Who Killed Albert Einstein? From Open Data to Murder Mystery Games.
Abstract
This paper presents a framework for generating adventure games from open data. Focusing on the murder mystery type of adventure games, the generator is able to transform open data from Wikipedia articles, OpenStreetMap, and images from Wikimedia Commons into WikiMysteries. Every WikiMystery game revolves around the murder of a person with a Wikipedia article, and populates the game with suspects who must be arrested by the player if guilty of the murder or absolved if innocent. Starting from only one person as the victim, an extensive generative pipeline finds suspects, their alibis, and paths connecting them from open data, transforms open data into cities, buildings, nonplayer characters, locks and keys, and dialog options. This paper describes in detail each generative step, provides a specific playthrough of one WikiMystery where Albert Einstein is murdered, and evaluates the outcomes of games generated for the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/tg.2018.2806190
IEEE Transactions on Games
Keywords
Field
DocType
Games,Encyclopedias,Electronic publishing,Internet,Generators,Transforms
Dialog box,Open data,Einstein,World Wide Web,Computer science,Adventure,Artificial intelligence,Generative grammar,Machine learning,Commons
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1802.05219
1
10.1109/TG.2018.2806190
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriella A. B. Barros1555.89
Michael Cerny Green2317.17
Antonios Liapis338350.22
Julian Togelius42765219.94