Games for Good

We invent responsible video games

We develop new ways to use popular games to solve scientific problems and make valuable research progress.

The video game of tomorrow becomes a responsible way to participate in resolving scientific and social problems. They connect and build trust of society in science and game industry.

Reliable: we are responsible for our scientific outcomes
Trustworthy: we believe in strong partnership
Focused: we love projects with concrete impact and deliverables
Educational: we communicate science to people
Talent development: we train experts who believe in sustainable gaming

Our Projects

We engaged several millions and collected over half a billion contributions

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Projects

2021-11-22

RCIScience

ON THE BORDER: WHERE SCIENCE MEETS GAMING

2021-05-03

Off the Cuff Series

EPISODE 4 – THE GAMERS SAVING THE WORLD

2022-09-14

ECSA – European Citizen Science Association

GAMERS FOR SCIENCE: GAMIFICATION IN CITIZEN SCIENCE

Blog

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April 2023.

Playing the System: Can Puzzle Players Teach us How to Solve Hard Problems?

Renata Mutalova, Roman Sarrazin-Gendron, Eddie Cai, Gabriel Richard, Parham Ghasemloo Gheidari, Sébastien Caisse, Rob Knight, Mathieu Blanchette, Attila Szantner and Jérôme Waldispühl
Contributed talk at the CH I2023 “ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems”

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April 2023.

Playing the System: Can Puzzle Players Teach us How to Solve Hard Problems?

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May 2022.

Human-supervised clustering of multidimensional data using crowdsourcing,

Butyaev, Alexander, Drogaris, Chrisostomos, Tremblay-Savard, Olivier, and Waldispühl, Jérôme Royal Society Open Science, 9, pages 211189

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May 2022.

When Citizen Science meets Teaching: A storified citizen science computer game to teach and contribute to genomic data analysis,

Drogaris, Chrisostomos, Butyaev, Alexander, Nazarova, Elena, Patel, Harsh, Singh, Akash, Kadota, Brenden, and Waldispühl, Jérôme bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, May, 2022.

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September 2020.

Leveling up citizen science,

Waldispühl, Jérôme, Szantner, Attila, Knight, Rob, Caisse, Sébastien, and Pitchford, Randy
Nature Biotechnology volume 38, pages 1124–1126 (2020)

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2019.

3DGV: Immersive Exploration of 3D Genome Structures using Virtual Reality

Zhang, Eric, Drogaris, Chrisostomos, Gédon, Antoine, Sossin, Aaron, Faraj, Rajae, Chen, Haifen, Cyr, Yan, Majewski, Jacek, Blanchette, Mathieu, and Waldispühl, Jérôme
bioRxiv, 2019.

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March 2018

Ten simple rules to create a serious game, illustrated with examples from structural biology.

Baaden, Marc, Delalande, Olivier, Ferey, Nicolas, Pasquali, Samuela, Waldispühl, Jérôme, and Taly, Antoine
PLoS Comput Biol 14, pages e1005955, 03, 2018

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October 2018.

Deep learning is combined with massive-scale citizen science to improve large-scale image classification,

Devin P Sullivan, Casper F Winsnes, Lovisa Åkesson, Martin Hjelmare, Mikaela Wiking, Rutger Schutten, Linzi Campbell, Hjalti Leifsson, Scott Rhodes, Andie Nordgren, Kevin Smith, Bernard Revaz, Bergur Finnbogason, Attila Szantner & Emma Lundberg
Nature Biotechnology volume 36, pages 820–828 (2018)

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July 2017.

Science Game Lab: tool for the unification of biomedical games with a purpose,

Good, Benjamin, Santini, Sarah, Wallace, Margaret, Fortugno, Nicholas, Szeder, John, Mooney, Patrick, Waldispühl, Jérôme, Tsueng, Ginger, and Su, Andrew I
bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Labs Journals, pages 156141, 2017.

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September 2017.

Lessons from an online massive genomics computer game,

Singh, Akash, Ahsan, Faizy, Blanchette, Mathieu, and Waldispühl, Jérôme
In Proceedings of the Fifth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2017), 2017.

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January 2016.

Massively Multiplayer Online Science,

Attila Szantner Levelling Up: The Cultural Impact of Contemporary Video games

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October 2016.

Collaborative Solving in a Human Computing Game Using a Market, Skills and Challenges,

Tremblay-Savard, Olivier, Butyaev, Alexander, and Waldispühl, Jérôme
In Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, ACM, pages 130-141, 2016.

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2015.

Crowdsourcing RNA structural alignments with an online computer game,

Waldispühl, Jérôme, Kam, Arthur, and Gardner, Paul P
In Proceedings of the 20th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, pages 330-41, 2015.

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September 2014.

Un jeu pour faire avancer la génétique,

Waldispühl, Jérôme
In “La Recherche”, 491, pages 46-51, September, 2014.

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October 2013.

Open-Phylo: a customizable crowd-computing platform for multiple sequence alignment,

Kwak, Daniel, Kam, Alfred, Becerra, David, Zhou, Qikuan, Hops, Adam, Zarour, Eleyine, Kam, Arthur, Sarmenta, Luis, Blanchette, Mathieu, and Waldispühl, Jérôme
Genome Biol, 14, pages R116, October, 2013.

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March 2012.

Phylo: a citizen science approach for improving multiple sequence alignment,

Kawrykow, Alexander, Roumanis, Gary, Kam, Alfred, Kwak, Daniel, Leung, Clarence, Wu, Chu, Zarour, Eleyine, {Phylo players}, Sarmenta, Luis, Blanchette, Mathieu, and Waldispühl, Jérôme
PLoS One, 7, pages e31362, March, 2012.

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April 25, 2023.

Playing the System: Can Puzzle Players Teach us How to Solve Hard Problems?

Invited talk at the CH I2023 “ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems”.

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January 28, 2021.

“Borderlands Science”, Talk at Amazon “Voice of the Customer”.

Seminar series (with Attila Szantner and Jonathan Moreau-Genest).

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February 5, 2021.

“Borderlands Science”.

Invited short talk at the 31st edition of Soup & Science.

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May 3, 2021.

“Le potentiel des jeux en ligne pour les sciences participatives”.

Invited talk at the 88e congrès de l’ACFAS “Engagement des Québécois et des Québécoises en sciences : pratiques multiformes”.

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May 13, 2021.

“On the Border: Where Science Meets Gaming”.

Invited online webinar organized by The Royal Canadian Institute for Science (with Gabriel Richard, Sarah Hays, and Nikki Stout).

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July 13, 2021.

“One Billion Guns vs. One Billion Nucleotides”.

Invited panel member at the Games 4 Change Festival (with Rob Knight, Randy Pitchford, and Attila Szantner).

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February 26, 2016.
“Crowdsourcing genomics research”, Invited seminar, Chemistry department, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.

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November 13, 2015.
“Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming”,
guest lecture for BIOT505, McGill University.

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April 15, 2015.
“Using games for research-based learning”,
invited lecture at the CRI Workshop “Leadership program”, Paris, France.

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March 4, 2015.
“Crowdsourcing Genomics Research”,
Invited seminar, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

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November 19, 2014.
“Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming”,
invited lecture at POP! (symposium organized by the association of students in bioinformatics at UdM), Université de Montréal University.

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November 14, 2014.
“Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming”,
guest lecture for BIOT505, McGill University.

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November 6, 2014.
“Video game players advancing genetic research”,
Fourth Montreal Summit on Innovation, Montreal, Canada.

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April 30, 2014.
“Phylo: A human-computing game for genomic research”,
Games & Crowds Work- shop, Washington, DC, USA.

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April 29, 2014.
“Crowdsourcing Genomic Data Analysis with Human-Computing Video Games”,
invited talk at the White House OSTP Crowdsource Games Workshop, Washington, DC, USA.

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March 26, 2014.
“Crowdsourcing Genomic Data Analysis with Human-Computing Video Games”,
invited talk at the CRI Workshop “Leadership program”, Paris, France.

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February 8th, 2013.
Invited Departmental Seminar, “Phylo: A Citizen Science Approach to Com- parative Genomics”, Shriner’s Hospital, Montreal, Canada.

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November 13, 2012.
Invited panelist at round table “Bring Your Own Data follow-up session” organized by the U.S. Department of Health and Emergencies, Washington D.C., USA.

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July 14, 2012.
Invited lecture, International Workshop “Learning Through Research”, Paris, France. “Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming”.

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June 13, 2012.
Invited lecture, Game for Health Conference 2012, Boston, USA. “Phylo: Crowdsourcing Genetic Data Analysis”.

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May 22, 2012.
Talk at the Fabelier seminar series, University Paris 5 Descartes, Paris, France. “Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming”.

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March 5, 2012.
Invited lecture, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco, USA. “PHYLO: help cure disease through guilt-free gaming”.

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March 2, 2012.
Talk at the Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA. “PHYLO: help cure disease through guilt-free gaming”.

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September 28th-30th, 2011.

Playing the System: Can Puzzle Players Teach us How to Solve Hard Problems?

Invited lecture, CUSP Conference, Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, USA. “PHYLO: Play video games and help Science”.

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February 26, 2016.
“Crowdsourcing genomics research”, Invited seminar, Chemistry department, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.

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February 26, 2016.
“Crowdsourcing genomics research”, Invited seminar, Chemistry department, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France.

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November 13, 2015.
“Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming”,
guest lecture for BIOT505, McGill University.

/TALK

April 15, 2015.
“Using games for research-based learning”,
invited lecture at the CRI Workshop “Leadership program”, Paris, France.

/TALK

March 4, 2015.
“Crowdsourcing Genomics Research”,
Invited seminar, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

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November 14, 2014.
“Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming”,
guest lecture for BIOT505, McGill University.

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November 6, 2014.
“Video game players advancing genetic research”,
Fourth Montreal Summit on Innovation, Montreal, Canada.

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April 30, 2014.
“Phylo: A human-computing game for genomic research”,
Games & Crowds Work- shop, Washington, DC, USA.

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April 29, 2014.
“Crowdsourcing Genomic Data Analysis with Human-Computing Video Games”,
invited talk at the White House OSTP Crowdsource Games Workshop, Washington, DC, USA.

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March 26, 2014.
“Crowdsourcing Genomic Data Analysis with Human-Computing Video Games”,
invited talk at the CRI Workshop “Leadership program”, Paris, France.

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February 8th, 2013.
Invited Departmental Seminar, “Phylo: A Citizen Science Approach to Com- parative Genomics”, Shriner’s Hospital, Montreal, Canada.

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November 13, 2012.
Invited panelist at round table “Bring Your Own Data follow-up session” organized by the U.S. Department of Health and Emergencies, Washington D.C., USA.

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July 14, 2012.
Invited lecture, International Workshop “Learning Through Research”, Paris, France. “Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming”.