gamejane

Hello from

• Cindy Miller
• Jenny Rowley
• Jess Soberman
• Sean Bender
• Matt Dennewitz

At SNDMakes' 2016 Chicago party, we designed and developed a simple UI for connecting new gamers with games they may enjoy in a conversational and unobtrusive way. A user answers questions to build a narrative sentence about the kind of games they feel they would like to play, and the system responds in kind with recommendations, both curated and automatic.

We felt that this would allow gamers to ease themselves into games outside of the perceptions driven by toxic-out-loud gaming culture.

Our functional demo app comes with a handful of games, each tagged and scored as they would be were this a real system.

This app requires a working Node installation.

Installation

Clone this repo, and then:

$ npm install

... to install its requirements.

Then, run webpack to build the app:

$ webpack

And finally start an HTTP server to view the page. To keep it simple, use Python's built-in HTTP server:

(Python 2)

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

(Python 3)

$ python -m http.server

Open http://localhost:8000/ to start!