Serious Game Classification
Peekaboom
Luis von Ahn, Ruoran Liu and Manuel Blum, 2006
Classification
SERIOUS GAME
Purpose
Besides play, this title features the following intents:
Market
This title is used by the following domains:
Audience
This title targets the following audience:
Age : 12-16
/
17-25
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25-35
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35-60
/
60+
General Public
&
Students
Gameplay
The gameplay of this title is
Game-based(designed with stated goals)
The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
Similar games
it’s an entertaining web-based game that can help computers locate objects in images. People play the game because of its entertainment value, and as a side effect of them playing, we collect valuable image metadata, such as which pixels belong to which object in the image.
[source : https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/Peekaboom.pdf]
2 players :
- Boom
Start with an image and related word
Gradually reveal 20 pixel radius circles of the image at a time
- Peek
Start with blank screen
Try to guess the image label
Every round, 4 images processed
[source : http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs286r/courses/fall08/files/AngelaCS286r.pdf]
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