Data Viz

[uneducated]

Data Visibility is a huge part of the enjoyment of games. I hope that all the developers who publish with Slitherine have a look at D3, which is becoming widely popular in displaying information.

I think a large part of games is representing the information and allowing the player to decide what choices to make. D3 is Free Software and becoming widely used for displaying data - Data Vizualization. I hope that you might enjoy looking at some of the stuff below:

Observables:
https://observablehq.com/@d3

Whilst pondering how these displays might be of use in a game, have a look at a few of the notebooks, some of which permit interaction. For example:

zoomable tiles,
brush.filter
delaunay.find
d3.interpolate.discrete
brushable scatterplot matrix
d3.path


D3.js
https://d3js.org/

[Kuokkanen]

That went over my head...

[uneducated]

Hi, Kuokkanen!

In simpler terms, just visit the link and look at what pretty ways we can show information these days. It is well beyond pie-charts and line-graphs.


https://observablehq.com/@d3