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Games for Good Collaborative Games List
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Citizen Science Games
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NameDeveloper LinkOne Sentence DescriptionWhy is this included?Analogue/DigitalPlayable/PrintableCost
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AgeGuessMax-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging (Denmark)http://ageguess.org/AgeGuess investigates the differences between perceived age (how old you look) and chronological age (your age) as a potential aging biomarker, through a simple game where you guess the age of the individual and are told afterward how close you were to being correct."By participating in AgeGuess you will create a first of its kind research data set for the study of human aging."DigitalYesFree
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Agent ExoplanetLas Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Networkhttp://lcogt.net/agentexoplanet/briefing/Puzzle/Hidden Objects game that attempt to gamify the process of finding planets outside our solar system.This is a private organization based out of California, I feel like this game really answers the question "how can we help" for government officials. I didn't find the gameplay very appealing or engaging but I feel like with some very basic tweaking with a Star Trek planet discovery type vibe it could be very, very fun.DigitalYesFree
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Ancient LIvesUniversity of Oxfordhttp://ancientlives.org/Puzzle game to help translate ancient Egyptian textNot the most interesting presentation but tons of potential to make you feel like Indiana Jones.DigitalYesFree
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Asteroid MappersSTEM Center at SIUE & Astrosphere New Media,
in association with Universe Today, Bad Astronomy,		http://cosmoquest.org/projects/vesta_mappers/Simulation/Art game where the individules help to improve the existing photos of asteroids and planets using editing tools provided as part of the game.This is another example of really useful work that doesn't sound like it's been "gamified" very well.DigitalYesFree
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Astro DroneEuropean Space Agencyhttp://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/ai/projects/astrodrone.htmlAllows users with an iPhone or Android and a Parrot AR Drone (toy helicopoter drone with a camera) to pilot it using an augmented reality environment to help improve docking and landing capabilities of space probes.European but a fairly innexpensive way to get information for their future space missions: http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/astro-drone-crowdsourcing-game/DigitalYesFree
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Citizen SortUniversity of Syracusehttp://www.citizensort.org/Game that helps in the classification of biological organismsThis is a "look and find" game there are several different ones on the website.DigitalYesFree
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EteRNACarnegie Mellon University & Stanford Universityhttp://eterna.cmu.edu/web/Puzzle game that lets player manipulate RNA to solve complex problems relating to cures for disease."Basically no one knows how 'best' to make particular shapes in RNA so if you need a particular shape which bases go where is a puzzle. The Eterna game is a simulation which lets us try to solve the puzzle." "Then those solutions that are voted most interesting/likely to succeed actually get made in a real world lab and then the results come back to us (the players) and can be interpreted (this is actual real science!) to try and work out for next time which solution is most likely to actually succeed, then feeding back into the player knowledge improving designs and eventually the eterna simulation itself."DigitalYesFree
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Eye WireSeung Lab at MIThttp://eyewire.org/A puzzle game built to help augment and improve the AI mapping of the brain that has already been completed. The game has an active online community of users that competitively rank users based on puzzle solving performance. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS0kqc2Y5ss)Here is a great Ted Talk from the creator in addtional to talking about the game it's also a really good introduction to Citizen Science games in general: http://youtu.be/bwcuhbj2rSIDigitalYesFree
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FolditCenter for Game Science at University of Washington in collaboration with UW Department of Biochemistryhttp://youtu.be/lGYJyur4FUAPuzzle game created to help scientists create new and better drugs and find new cures for disease.Folding algorithm improvements and protean structure mapping made possible by the distributed computations of many users have made advancements in fighting: Cancer, Alzheimers, and AIDS/HIV. An HIV-related protean structure that has boggled scientists for 15 years was mapped by users in just 10 days.DigitalYesFree
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FraxinusThe Sainsbury Laboratory https://apps.facebook.com/fraxinusgameA facebook puzzle matching game with online competitve elements that helps to sequence the DNA of European Ash Trees in an attempt to save them from Ash DiebackThis is a practical example of how gentic sequencing can be crowd sourced which is bound to have other examples.DigitalYesFree
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Genes In SpaceGuerilla Tea/Cancer Research UKhttp://www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/play-to-cure-genes-in-spacePlot a course through the most dense points of space fields to collect material while flying through rings and shooting asteroids.By collecting Element Alpha and navigating your spaceship through the cosmos you’re finding the significant genetic changes which help scientists to discover cancer causing genes and develop new life saving treatments.DigitalYesFree
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Malaria Spot - Cure Malaria NowFotios Stylianesishttp://www.malariaspot.com/The objective of the game is that the player identifies many parasites as possible in a minute.Analysis of data revealed that the fusion of the results obtained by 22 volunteers with no previous experience or 13 volunteers trained for one minute allows a perfect parasite count, is as accurate as an expert microscopist. The research was published in an article in the scientific journal's impact in the field of Medical Informatics (Journal of Medical Internet Research): "Crowdsourcing Malaria Parasite Quantification: An Online Game for Analyzing Images of Thick Infected Blood Smears" http://www.jmir.org/2012/6/e167/DigitalYesFree
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Malaria Training GameBioGameshttp://biogames.ee.ucla.edu/Intended to leverage gamer's pattern recognition skills to help identify cels infected with MalariaIntended to leverage gamer's pattern recognition skills to help identify cels infected with Malaria. "Specifically, using non-professional gamers we report diagnosis of malaria infected red-blood-cells with an accuracy that is within 1.25% of the diagnostic decisions made by a trained professional."DigitalYesFree
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NanocrafterCenter for Game Science at University of Washingtonhttp://centerforgamescience.org/portfolio/nanocrafter/Nanocrafter is a newly launched game about building nanoscale devices using small pieces of DNA. Nanocrafter aims to increase the number of people working in the field of building nanoscale devices by orders of magnitude. Players can compete in challenge levels meant to foster creative solutions to open-ended scientific problems, giving the opportunity for players to improve upon published results.DigitalYesFree
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PhyloMcGill University &
McGill Centre for Bioinformatics		http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/#!/EN/playBy aligning together each nucleotide sequence, represented as differently coloured blocks, players attempt to create the highest point value score for each set of sequences by matching as many colours as possible and minimizing gaps.The nucleotide sequences generated by Phylo are obtained from actual sequence data from the UCSC Genome Browser. High-scoring player alignments are collected as data and sent back to the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics to be further evaluated with a stronger scoring algorithm.DigitalYesFree
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Quantum MindsDep. of Physics and Astronomy
Aarhus University		http://scienceathome.org/games/quantum-minds/Quantum Minds challenges your mind. Help us discover why and how human learning can outperform computer algorithms. This gme sees things like Foldit and does the logical thing and investigates the phenomenon of human minds outpreforming computers.DigitalYesFree
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Quantum MovesDep. of Physics and Astronomy
Aarhus University		http://www.scienceathome.org/index.php?Scientific+challengeHelp design a quantum computer by playing a java-based puzzle game.This is interesting in that it attempts to solve and engineering problem.DigitalYesFree
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StormBoundVerigameshttp://stormbound.verigames.com/play/Game that helps detects flaws in softwareAll five of these games appear to be funded by the DoD via DARPA http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/12/04.aspxDigitalYesFree
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The Milky Way ProjectZooniversehttp://www.milkywayproject.org/ The main goal is to identify bubbles in the Milky Way Galaxy by classify sets of infrared images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. "We need your help looking through tens of thousands of images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. By telling us what you see in this infrared data, we can better understand how stars form."DigitalYesFree
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XylemVerigameshttp://xylem.verigames.com/Plant identifcation game that helps to detect flaws in software.All five of these games appear to be funded by the DoD via DARPA http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/12/04.aspxDigitalYesFree
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