Talk
Serious can be fun: exoplanets in EVE
Players of EVE Online submitted more than 100 million analyses of lightcurves of distant stars to help finding new exoplanets, making Project Discovery one of the most successful citizen science projects ever. Come and hear about how game developers and designers can participate in advancing science, and what are the specific challenges that we face when embracing real life content in our games.

Bio
Attila Szantner is the CEO and co-founder of Massively Multiplayer Online Science (aka MMOS): a Swiss company specialized in connecting citizen science and games. MMOS founders received the prestigious Lovie Award and the IGDA Serious Games SIG Community Leadership Award for their role in creating EVE Online's Project Discovery. Attila has a background in computer science and he co-founded and co-designed iWiW, which was the biggest social network in Hungary before Facebook, reaching almost 5 million users.