1st Jan - 13th Feb 2021
Our second #GamesNightViz theme "Hello World", had us traversing through different game worlds, meeting new people, finding the best places to stay or just trying to survive.
The project ran alongside Tableau's Iron Viz competition and we received 21 submissions!
Data Prep Submissions
On the data prep side, Alice S. helped us survive against C.Liam Brown's Battleship AI challenge.
Data Visualisation Submissions
We received 20 visualisations covering several games but some popular choices included:
- Skyrim,
- Minecraft,
- and Mario
Check out these great vizzes 👇
Retro Modern Mario Bros #Genuary by Aaron Fox
These are really great visualizations – if you zoom in, the detail on how they were created makes it even more impressive. – Tina
Skyrim Census - Year 201 of the 4th Era | VOTD by Ant Pulley
This viz is an RPG enthusiasts dream! Ant visualizations are always so creative – the big easter egg here is in the “info button”. The interactive map within the show/hide button is pure sorcery. - Tina
#GamesNightViz PUBG by Edvard Stepancuk
A great interactive map Edvard, love that you've added animation too! I had a theory with this dataset that there would be a lot of activity around the military base early game, from your viz it looks like everyone starts trying to escape after 7 mins! Awesome work! 🏆 – Will
Welcome to Paradise, er, Calamansi #gamesnightviz by Gemma Francisco
The art style is so inviting and cute, and looks like this is not your first rodeo with #gamesnightviz! Keep it coming, we love it! 🥰 – Louis
Find True Love in SKYRIM by Jacob Turner
Who doesn’t love a good survey? Combine that with the comedy and subtle, extremely intricate details of this “love” survey based on Skyrim and you’ve got a Skyrim lovers dream! – Tina
Find a Follower in SKYRIM by Jacob Turner
Loving the viz Jacob! I like how you've found your own story amongst that big dataset - I think the tertiary plot works nicely to show the 3 stats, any views on the best follower? Love the map & icons! 🤩 - Will
Mario's Nemeses #GamesNightViz by Joshua Preston
Great looking viz Josh! Love the colours and that heatmap works really well for this dataset - interesting how in later levels the green koopa troopas get upgraded to paratroopas! – Will
Nintendo Life 2021 Reviews by Joshua Preston
If you were ever looking for a quick hit review on a game, this viz is for you. Josh incorporates the articles of reviewers from Nintendo Life within this visualization, creating ease of organization and a portfolio for the reviewers. – Tina
The Metroidvania Video Game Subgenre 2010-2021 by Joshua Preston
Another awesome #GamesNightViz Josh! Great explanation of the subgenre because I wasn't too sure! I'm having a great time exploring the bottom section there are a few games I know but many are new to me - definitely a genre I'll dive into soon! 🤩- Will
Kanto Region Population Density Map by Kate Kohn
Game vizzes that show IRL locations are always a fun twist and bring another level of sentiment to those that enjoy playing! – Tina
Vegas Vacation Cheapo Casino by Kevin Flerlage
Will lost every game, as did I, but it didn’t make it any less fun. The artwork is fantastic and the reaction times are so quick making this an enjoyable experience. I hope Kevin isn’t keeping a tab. – Tina
The Many Worlds of Monopoly by Kimberly Furdell, Ph.D.
Loving the viz Kimberly! You’ve real nailed that monopoly look & feel - I even feel nervous seeing that many hotels on sports! Great callouts & BANs they really help with interpreting the data! 💰💰💰- Will
Welcome to the Pixel World by Louis Yu
I believe Louis said he put this visualization for the #IronViz qualifier together in a weekend, which makes it that much more impressive, because all of the artwork is data! I love this viz, it is so creative and look forward to the future pixel art tutorial 😉. – Tina
Jan 22 #GamesNightViz: Minecraft Materials by Megan Whitacre
Great work Megan! I think the trellis works really well with this long dataset and those treemaps really give it that blocky feel! Love the captions - insightful & helpful for explaining the data - Will
Minecraft Blocks Dist per Layer by Nir Smilga
This is awesome work Nir! I love how you used the original block images as a filter for the entire map. Great job! 👍👍👍- Louis
LucasArts Early 90s Point & Click Games by Stefan Melgaard
Great work Stefan! Really like how you've used python to prep you're own data and then built a viz - makes for some serious skills! Those images really put you back in the game and give good nostalgia vibes - I especially love the Indiana Jones one! I hate snakes! 🤣 - Will
Link to the Past dungeon enemies (Son #2) by Turner family
For this to have been completed by Jacob’s 12 year old son is extremely impressive! Well done! – Tina
Yoshi's Island Memory Game by Turner family
A really nice example of building a game in Tableau and the Yoshi's Island theme makes this really fun and great practice for math class! - Will
Street Fighter V Character Statistics by Valent Jonathan
This really plays well into the nostalgia of old games. This is great! – Tina
Interpreting Art | Iron Viz 2022 | Drawful 2 by Will Sutton
Will’s #IronViz qualifier is so fun. If you took the quiz, it was a lot of fun to interpret for yourself and the entire viz is within this “sketch-world” theme. Really well done, Will! – Tina
