can database visualization be a good background for a game?

nitrofurano on 2009/09/16 20:18
— edited on 2009/09/16 20:18

i'm taking a look at this, and thinking a lot about ideas using database visualization for a python game - http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/ - what do you all think?

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Cosmologicon on 2009/09/16 21:24:

What genre kind of game? Or, if it's something all genre-defying, what sort of mechanics?

nitrofurano on 2009/09/17 09:20:

good questions!.... :)

simono on 2009/09/18 12:34:

codeswarm is actually visualizing code changes (svn repos), not databases :)

saluk on 2009/09/19 02:08:

If and svn repo is not a database I don't know what is! I would love to see a game based on this kind of visualization. I can't think of what you would do in the game (maybe introducing an element at the proper time?

It reminds me a bit about this shifting population game:
http://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/