GeoMinasCraft: A Serious Geogame for Geographical Visualization and Exploration

Ítalo Sousa de Sena; Alenka Poplin; Bruno Andrade

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GeoMinasCraft: A Serious Geogame for Geographical Visualization and Exploration

Ítalo Sousa de Sena^*, Alenka Poplin, Bruno Andrade

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This chapter concentrates on the implementation of the geogame GeoMinasCraft and its use for geographical virtual explorations. The game was implemented to study the use of geospatial data for the visualizations of landscapes in a serious game. The users/players can take on an adventure, explore the landscapes, learn about geodiversity, and face different challenges. The game takes us to the City of Ouro Preto in Minas Gerais in Brazil. The city was selected due to its historical significance and socio-cultural values. We used satellite images and transformed them into blocks imitating these real-world landscapes and cities in Minecraft. We tested the game prototype with nine students which gave us the needed feedback for the improvements of the first prototype. This chapter summarizes the game concept, its implementation, and the testing results. We conclude the chapter with a discussion and further research directions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Urban Informatics and Future Cities
Editors	S.C.G. Geertman, Christopher Pettit, Robert Goodspeed, Aija Staffans
Publisher	Springer
Pages	613-632
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-76059-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-76058-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76059-5_30
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Name	Urban Book Series
ISSN (Print)	2365-757X
ISSN (Electronic)	2365-7588

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Geodiversity
Landscape
Minecraft
Playtest
Values

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GeoMinasCraft: A Serious Geogame for Geographical Visualization and Exploration. / de Sena, Ítalo Sousa; Poplin, Alenka; Andrade, Bruno.
Urban Informatics and Future Cities. ed. / S.C.G. Geertman; Christopher Pettit; Robert Goodspeed; Aija Staffans. Springer, 2021. p. 613-632 (Urban Book Series).

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