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UW GAMER Group Video Game Discovery Engine

Project tags:

mobile or web development

ux & interaction design

Project poster

UW GAMER (GAME Research) Group has developed the UW/SIMM Video Game Metadata Schema. This Video Game Discovery Engine is constructed in order to implement the schema to catalog video games, and also to share this achievement to support the use of games in entertainment, education and science. The website enables users to find video games by searching or browsing through approaches that are more in quantity and better in quality when comparing to traditional websites. For example, users can browse by progression and visual style to discover video games on this engine. At this stage, our team has developed the website beta version and conducted user testing on visual design and functional design.

Project participants:

Cong Niu

MLIS

Jasmine Lin

MLIS

Zhuohua Zhang

MSIM