History of Game Platforms For 20 Years
This is an animated data visualization that shows the history of game platforms for the last 20 years (1996 - 2016) . For this project, I used Processing 3, which is a media art-oriented programming language that provides real time visual feedback for code inputs. A CSV file that I used for the programming is based on the crawled list of reviewed games in ign.com which is done and provided by Eric Grinstein in Kaggle.com (https://www.kaggle.com/egrinstein/20-years-of-games).
The main visualization is composed of two pie charts, inner and outer. The outer pie chart represents the accumulated proportion of games published since 1996, and the inner one shows the proportion of games published during the latest one year period. Quite intuitively, each ball converging to the charts represents a published game at a corresponding time point with its color distinct by its game platform. Different size in balls is the result of game scores (IGN rating) that were mapped as their radius length (1.0 to 10.0).
* I categorized all the game platforms (59 items) in the data file into 8 groups in a higher level. Sub-items for the 8 classifications are as follows.
PC : PC, Macintosh
Nintendo Home: Game Cube, Nintendo 64, Nintendo 64DD, Wii, Wii U
Nintendo Portable: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS
PlayStation Home: PlayStation, PlayStation2, PlayStation3, PlayStation4
PlayStation Portable: PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita
Xbox: Xbox, Xbox One, Xbox 360
Mobile: iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone
Others: other items except the mentioned.
* Dates of the first and the last game reviewed in the data file is 1996-06-18 and 2016-09-22, respectively.
