Turn mathematical ponderings to citizen science games
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Map human perception with Apophenia!
Apophenia is like seeing faces in clouds!
This game collects data on how people distinguish true math signal from noise.
In this video, a quadratic is slowly buried under increasing Gaussian noise.
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View the actual instructions on GitHub (randomplayables.com keeps a lot of stuff on GitHub so that the game owner can maintain ownership of their own games; rp is so lucky if you choose to host on the platform!).
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The black dot on randomplayables.com leads to IRL instructions of the game.
This can help users play variants of the games using paper, pencil, coins, cards, string, and other IRL tools.
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Play GOWAP (Game of War and Peace) at randomplayables.com. Play in practice (single player) or head-to-head (gauntlet) mode.
Use #math functions to set the battle landscape then watch the world unfold.
At randomplayables.com the red button gets you to the game's source code.
The Random Playables GameLab is still a work in progress. It is designed to create #math based #citizescience games.
Use RPTS to create a full game for the main platform.
Use the other language to create simpler sketches that you can save to your public user profile.
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Visit RP (random payables) on randomplayables.com to learn more about incentives for #OpenSource & #CitizenScience contributions.
Learn to create and submit an #OpenSource #math game to the platform: https://www.randomplayables.com/submit-guide
Before submitting, test your game for platform compatibility:
https://testgame.randomplayables.com/
Double check that the data you want to analyze is being collected (#CitizenScience)!
