{"id":8291,"date":"2020-09-01T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T07:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/?p=8291"},"modified":"2021-07-13T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:45:20","slug":"big-data-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/frontend\/gamedev\/big-data-game\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Game Company Turned Big Data Into a Hit AR Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t\t
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  1. How Landlord GO works<\/a>
  2. The use of satellite imagery and location data<\/a>
  3. AR Game Tools Challenges<\/a>
  4. What are the most challenging aspects of building a game for AR?<\/a>
  5. Advice for aspiring AR game developers<\/a>
  6. Want to launch a developer event despite the challenges of COVID-19?<\/a><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n

    You might remember a time when Pokemon GO was the biggest mainstream AR<\/span> game, downloaded over 1 billion times, and named “Best Mobile Game<\/span>” by The Game Developers Choice Awards<\/span> and “Best App<\/span> of the Year” by TechCrunch<\/span> in 2017. While the hype might have died down, it’s still a popular form of entertainment and paved the way for a new wave of mobile<\/span> AR<\/span> games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I recently spoke with John Woznowski, the CEO of Reality Games<\/a>. The company<\/span> recently launched the augmented reality game Landlord GO<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In its first few days became the top app<\/span> in Germany with over 1m players an reached the number 1 spot in the Google Play New & Updated Game rankings in the U.S. and 50 other countries after being featured on the Play Store throughout its July 16th launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How Landlord GO works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    The game<\/span> is a combination of Monopoly meets Pokemon GO. Specifically, Landlord GO is a geo-location reality game that lets players buy and sell real-world properties<\/span>. Using a massive pool of data<\/span>, including detailed information about more than half a billion real-world properties<\/span>, Landlord Go connects the user<\/span> to their city: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Players can start small, buying up local corner shops, and quickly amass a vast real estate empire through savvy investing. Put properties<\/span> on the market, or engage in bidding wars with other players. Landlord Go reflects real-world values of properties<\/span> using details like distance from the city centre and building amenities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Anytime another player<\/span> visits your property<\/span> in real life, they pay you rent in the game<\/span>. Each building has a unique daily performance<\/span> based on real digital<\/span> footprints. The more visitors your property<\/span> gets, the higher its value. Currently, in Berlin, there are 31, 271 players<\/span> making deals for virtual ownership of the 153, 517 real properties<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The use of satellite imagery and location data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    To ensure the game<\/span> has the largest playing field possible, the world is divided into 10 billion unique plots with a little help from NASA. Reality Games<\/span> uses their own property<\/span> data<\/span> set combined with NASA satellite scans showing nighttime light emissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The game tracks half a billion real-world properties<\/span>. Buildings in the game<\/span> have the correct simulated height that corresponds with the real world versions, with image recognition and location data<\/span> available through the AI<\/span> camera<\/span> feed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Using a proprietary AI<\/span> and data<\/span> platform called Big Dots<\/a>, the team<\/span> is able to add real-world data<\/span> to desktop and mobile<\/span> apps<\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The company<\/span> accessed data<\/span> in their previous game<\/span> by data<\/span> scraping APIs<\/span> from location sites such as Foursquare and their data<\/span> now comes fromThey now use scraping and their own database<\/span> which scrapes data<\/span> from over 3000 open data<\/span> sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They now also have the opportunity to gain real-time user-generated<\/span> data<\/span>. As John explains “We have about 150,000 agents (players) who ensure that the buildings detailed in the game<\/span> are accurate in return for tokens”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    For each location to be verified, it requires three people in the same location to verify the exact location of buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The team<\/span> includes data<\/span> scientists, and they have a close relationship with data<\/span> scientists at the University of Krakow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    AR Game Tools Challenges <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    The team<\/span> started initially at Oxygen accelerator, Google<\/span> campus London.  John explained, “We built a prototype<\/span>. The prototype<\/span> became Landlord Tycoon which today has 50 million organic downloads.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    According to John, 95% of the time building the game<\/span> was spent on the backend<\/span> site compared to the front end<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     “The game from the front end<\/span> side is done on Native. However, it’s inherently a back end<\/span> game; the front end<\/span> is just showing the logistical information. And this is very, very different compared to other games<\/span> because most of the games<\/span> are front end<\/span> based. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Leaderboards and the position of players compared to other players are the only communication<\/span> between the server<\/span> and client.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    John notes that the game<\/span> has limited AR functionality<\/a> via the phone app<\/span> and that the company<\/span> is waiting for new AR<\/span> hardware<\/span>, “the new game<\/span>-changer, the new marketplace when Apple<\/span> introduces its new AR<\/span> lenses. When you put on the glasses, suddenly you have another layer<\/span> of smart information. The game is ready to go; we just need the hardware<\/span>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What are the most challenging aspects of building a game for AR?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    John explains that some of the problems are not what you might to think. For example, where you place an icon in AR<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    “If you are standing 300 meters from a building, the icon should be positioned at the top of the building. When you are coming closer, it should align with the entrance. Thus, we are working with our agents to put the location of the pin appropriate to a 3D environment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    There is also the additional UX challenge: “When you are in a very popular place, you will be able to see suddenly 800 points of interest in a 200-metre radius. So you need to filter them by date and location. But the original Google data<\/a> is problematic because the maps were built by satellites and by autonomous cars using street view and they didn’t put the location precisely with the building”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Advice for aspiring AR game developers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    When asked what advice he would give to aspiring game devs<\/a>, John advises. “Create the first one, publish it yourself from home, and try to understand why it didn’t fly. It’s essential to understand the entire process<\/span>. Because it’s complicated, it’s not only coding or game design<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Learn from how your players behave. You can gain insight into retention. You can understand what people like, what they dislike, and why they have left. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And by slowly observing those things, you learn how to build games<\/span>. And then it’s only the scale<\/span>, and the scale<\/span> is related strictly to money. But it’s still possible to build an app<\/span>, build the game<\/span>, from the bedroom, and be successful.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Want to launch a developer event despite the challenges of COVID-19?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    If you want to know more about how modern technologies and tools can support you for \u2013 and during \u2013 the organisation of a virtual event, don\u2019t miss this article showcasing the best tools we used to host our online conferences<\/a> since the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You might remember a time when Pokemon GO was the biggest mainstream AR game, downloaded over 1 billion times, and named “Best Mobile Game” by The Game Developers Choice Awards and “Best App of the Year” by TechCrunch in 2017. 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