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Swiss Video Games Directory
This projects aims at providing a directory of Swiss Video Games, with metadata among which:
- game descriptions,
- trailers,
- websites,
- authors,
- release dates,
- direct links to acquire them,
- etc.
The directory is a platform to display and promote Swiss Games for publishers, journalists, politicians or potential buyers, as well as a database aimed at the game developers community and scientific researchers.
Our work is the continuation of a project initiated at the 1st Open Data Hackathon in 2015 in Bern by David Stark.
We will have a Google hangouts call at 15:00 on September 21. https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NmlvNGRlZDNjYzFrOWNvODJtNzdzdDFvdXEgZDk3ZzhqMXY0cXY1dW5yc20zODNzbjk0Mm9AZw&tmsrc=d97g8j1v4qv5unrsm383sn942o%40group.calendar.google.com
Workflow
- An open spreadsheet contains the data with around 250 entries describing the games.
- Every once in a while, data are exported into the Directory website.
- At any moment, game devs or volunteer editors can edit the spreadsheet and add games or correct informations.
Data
The list was created on Aug. 11 2014 by David Javet, game designer and PhD student at UNIL. He then opened it to the Swiss game dev community which collaboratively fed it. At the start of this hackathon, the list was composed of 241 games, starting from 2004. It was turned into an open data set on the opendata.swiss portal by Oleg Lavrovsky.
Team
- Selim Krichane
- Isaac Pante
- David Stark (team leader)