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Online Multiplayer Games for Crowdsourcing the Development of Digital Assets

The Case of Ingress

Authors : Samuli Laato, Sonja M. Hyrynsalmi, Mauri Paloheimo

Published in: Software Business

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Abstract

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a cost-efficient solution for companies to resolve certain tasks requiring vast amounts of human input. In order to motivate participants to harness their best efforts for the crowdsourcing task, companies are gamifying or creating complete games around crowdsourcing problems. The location-based game Ingress integrated the development of a geographically distributed database of points of interest in its game design. Players submitted and later peer-reviewed PoI candidates for Niantic for free, who then used the crowdsourced database as backbone for such popular games as Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. This study analyzes the solution in Ingress from two main perspectives: (1) how the game motivates players to participate in the crowdsourcing tasks and (2) how crowdsourcing fits into the game creator Niantic’s revenue model. The results show that Ingress players are provided multi-layered motivation to participate in crowdsourcing. The crowdsourcing tasks influence the game world, but are not limited inside it, and can be used elsewhere. Adopting crowdsourcing as a business strategy has served Niantic well, making Niantic an international multi-billion dollar company. Therefore it is predicted that more online multiplayer games implementing crowdsourcing as a revenue stream are likely to emerge in the near future.

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Metadata
Title
Online Multiplayer Games for Crowdsourcing the Development of Digital Assets
Authors
Samuli Laato
Sonja M. Hyrynsalmi
Mauri Paloheimo
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Software Business

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-33741-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-33742-1

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33742-1_31

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