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
Talant development: we constantly grow new talents

Our Projects

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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

/JOURNAL

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

/JOURNAL

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.

/JOURNAL

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.

/JOURNAL

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

/JOURNAL

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)

/JOURNAL

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.

/CONFERENCE

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.

/JOURNAL

January 2016.

Massively Multiplayer Online Science,

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

/JOURNAL

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.

/CONFERENCE

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.

/MISC

September 2014.

Un jeu pour faire avancer la génétique,

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

/JOURNAL

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.

/JOURNAL

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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January 28, 2021.

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

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

/TALK

February 5, 2021.

“Borderlands Science”.

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

/TALK

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”.

/TALK

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).

/TALK

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).

News

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Our users understand the value of our projects and their impact. It is our great honour for our team to be recognized for these projects.

Borderlands Science
Public Service, Activism, and Social Impact
Nominee, 2022

Project Discovery
Public Service, Activism, and Social Impact
Peoples Voice Winner, 2021

Principal Investigators

Jérôme Waldispühl

McGill

Attila Szantner

McGill

Mathieu Blanchette

McGill

Rob Knight

USDC

Ryan Brinkmann

BCCRC

Alexander Butayaev

Research Associate | McGill

Chris Drogaris

Game Developer | McGill

Kornél Erhart

Platform Architect | Morgan Stanley

Roman Sarrazin

PhD Student | McGill

Partners

We are very excited to discuss new ideas and are very keen on new collaborations in both, science and industry

Games for Good

We invent responsible video games

We are researchers that work with the industry to build responsible video games

MISSION

VISION

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Our Projects

Borderlands Science

Project Discovery

Colony B

Phylo DNA Puzzles

The impact of our work

Total Games Played

Total Users

Projects Launched

The Press

Red Bull TV

MMOS – MASSIVE MULTIPLAYER ONLINE SCIENCE

RCIScience

ON THE BORDER: WHERE SCIENCE MEETS GAMING

Off the Cuff Series

EPISODE 4 – THE GAMERS SAVING THE WORLD

ECSA – European Citizen Science Association

GAMERS FOR SCIENCE: GAMIFICATION IN CITIZEN SCIENCE

Blog

Publications

Human-supervised clustering of multidimensional data using crowdsourcing,

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

Leveling up citizen science,

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

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

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

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

Lessons from an online massive genomics computer game,

Massively Multiplayer Online Science,

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

Crowdsourcing RNA structural alignments with an online computer game,

Un jeu pour faire avancer la génétique,

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

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

Talks

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

“Borderlands Science”.

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

“On the Border: Where Science Meets Gaming”.

“One Billion Guns vs. One Billion Nucleotides”.

News

Nominations and awards won by our projects.

Team Members

Principal Investigators

Jérôme Waldispühl

Attila Szantner

Scientific Collaborators

Mathieu Blanchette

Rob Knight

Ryan Brinkmann

Professional Staff

Elena Nazorova

Alexander Butayaev

Chris Drogaris

Kornél Erhart

Graduate Students

Roman Sarrazin

Renata Mutalova

Parham Ghasemloo

Eddie Cai

Alumni

Julien Mounthanyvong

Tim Keding

Partners

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