i-Game

The i-Game project aims to create an accessible open-source game development platform that will facilitate the co-creation of games by diverse actors within different ecosystems of cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI), to enhance innovation and to bring positive impact on social cohesion and sustainability.

More specifically, i-Game aspires: 1) To engage video game stakeholders of different abilities, expertise, and disciplines, to contribute, learn, share and tap into new innovative and economic opportunities; 2) To provide a collaborative platform with the tools to co-create mobile and virtual reality games by engaging different users, from different backgrounds and sectors; 3) To develop an ethical-design culture in the video game industry; 4) To monitor, assess and manage the impact that the video games have on different sectors, especially targeting culture/museums, creative industries and fashion/textile; 5) To help understand why and how are online games positively impacting people, culture and society and help extract the ingredients necessary for developing a new generation of games targeted to improve people’s well-being.

ITI/CERTH is responsible for the coordination of the project i-Game. It will also contribute to technology development, with the responsibility of the implementation of the co-creation platform, the development of explainable AI modules (XAI) for game developers, and the integration of existing solutions. The team of ITI/CERTH that will be involved in the i-Game project is the Multimodal Data Fusion and Analytics Group (M4D) of the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Lab (MKLab) with significant experience and scientific expertise. More specifically, it will be involved in creating a development workflow and integrating XAI into artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to ensure that game developers feel comfortable using advanced AI. Through the project, M4D will focus on creating interpretable models that provide transparent predictions.

Consortium

Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anaptyksis, Greece
Business and Cultural Development Centre, Greece
Raising the Floor, Belgium
Cookie Box, Spain
Nurogames, Deutschland
Museospace Stitching, Netherlands
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Open Impact SRL, Italy
Fondazione Museo del Tessuto di Prato, Italy
Unisystems Luxemburg SARL, Luxemburg
Uni Systems Systimata PLiroforikis Monoprosopi Anonimi Emporiki Etairia, Greece
Eesti Rahva Muuseum, Estonia Dr. Frucht Systems Ltd, Israel
Resilience Guard GMBH, Switzerland