WikiMysteries

By Gabriella A. B. Barros, Michael C. Green, Antonios Liapis and Julian Togelius. 2017.

WikiMysteries is a point-and-click adventure game, where the adventures are procedurally generated from open data. Focusing on the murder mystery type of adventure games, the generator is able to transform open data from Wikipedia articles, OpenStreetMap and images from Wikimedia Commons into WikiMysteries. Every WikiMystery game revolves around the murder of a person with a Wikipedia article and populates the game with suspects who must be arrested by the player if guilty of the murder or absolved if innocent. Starting from only one person as the victim, an extensive generative pipeline finds suspects, their alibis, and paths connecting them from open data, transforms open data into cities, buildings, non-player characters, locks and keys and dialog options.
Used: LibGDX, Java. Platforms: Windows.