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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Steam Visualization</title>
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<body>
<div class="app-layout">
<div class="app-container">
<header class="app-heading">
<h1 class="shadow-text">
VISUALIZING STEAM: PERSPECTIVES ON WHAT MAKES A GAME POPULAR
</h1>
</header>
<main class="app-main">
<div class="card">
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
The games industry is continually growing, representing a big portion of media production nowadays. In
Brazil, one of the biggest gaming markets, <strong>approximately 75% of the
population</strong> plays games, be it
through their smartphones, personal computers or gaming consoles. Valve officially launched Steam in
2003 and now it’s one of the biggest platforms for buying and playing video games on the computer,
presenting a huge database with a diverse set of information and metrics from each game launched on
the platform.
</p>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Objective</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
Our visualization aims to present an interactive analytics dashboard that builds on <strong
class="steam">Steam</strong>’s data on games and general player metrics collected through
open-source APIs to offer an insightful look at recent trends in the gaming industry.
</p>
<p>
We start with an overview of the games launched by year. You can select specific time periods by
clicking and dragging on the visualization space.
</p>
</div>
<div class="data-row">
<p>
We conducted a sampling process to curate a dataset
comprising the <strong>250 most reviewed games</strong> released <strong>until 2019 </strong>,
ensuring that each selected game possesses at least five active years. This criterion not only allows
a diverse representation of the gaming landscape but also helps identify titles that have withstood
the test of time.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="data-graph">
<div class="data-graph-content">
<div title="Released games by year" width="1000" height="460"
id="observablehq-viewof-release_by_year_bin_plot-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Questions</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
To guide the development of the visualizations presented in this dashboard, a set of questions where
defined. Throughout the text, the link between visualizations and the questions proposed will be
marked with brackets (<strong class="steam">[]</strong>). The questions are as follows:
</p>
<ol class="question-list">
<li>What are the most popular genres and tags on <strong class="steam">Steam</strong>?</li>
<li>What games are more popular right now?</li>
<li>What is the relation of popularity and reviews?</li>
<li>What is the relation of price and reviews?</li>
<li>What platforms are more popular right now</li>
<li>What countries have more gamer developers?</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Genres</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
The pie chart on the left side compares the
<strong>proportion of games launched by genre
[1]</strong>. Note that a single game can have multiple genres (e.g.
Grand Theft Auto V is both Action and Adventure), in that
case, each genre is considered.
</p>
</div>
<div class="data-row">
<p>
The line chart on the right side displays player activity trends for different game genres over the
years. Each line represents a genre and compares the popularity of a genre in the community from
January 2019 to September 2023
<strong class="steam">[2]</strong>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="data-graph genres-graphs">
<div class="data-graph-content">
<div title="genre pie" width="1000" height="464" id="observablehq-viewof-genre_pie_plot-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Tags</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
On Steam, tags serve as descriptive keywords for the Steam
community collectively. Unlike genres, <strong>tags are added by the players</strong> and are based
on user input and votes.
</p>
<p>
This freedom of input allows more specific descriptions and often brings rich information about the
game.
</p>
</div>
<div class="data-row">
<p>
For example, Grand Theft Auto V is classified as with "action” and “adventure" genres only, while the
community added "open world”, “action”, “automobile sim”, “multiplayer”, “crime”, “third person” and
many other tags, giving much more detail to Steam’s classification system.
</p>
<p>
Below there is a word cloud where we highlight Steam’s most frequently used tags
<strong class="steam">[1]</strong>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="data-graph">
<div class="data-graph-content">
<div title="word cloud" width="1000" height="420" id="observablehq-viewof-tag_word_cloud_plot-52b3ab46">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Most popular games</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
The following graph shows the <strong>top 10 most popular games</strong> on <strong
class="steam">Steam</strong>, the games are ordered by the mean quantity of playes between the years
of 2019 and 2023 <strong class="steam">[2]</strong>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="data-graph">
<div class="data-graph-content">
<div title="top 10 games" width="1000" height="543"
id="observablehq-viewof-top_10_games_bar_plot-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Review and popularity</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
<strong class="steam">Steam</strong> games reviews are
binary, each player can only give one positive or negative
review. To analyse these reviews, we present a scatter plot with the
review rate
<strong>(positive reviews / total reviews)</strong> and popularity
<strong>(average number of players between January 2019 and
September 2023)</strong>
<strong class="steam">[3]</strong>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="data-graph">
<div class="data-graph-content">
<div title="review and popularity" width="1000" height="548"
id="observablehq-viewof-review_popularity_scatter_plot-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Price and popularity</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
One interesting comparation is the
<strong>proportion of free and paid games</strong>
<strong class="steam">[4]</strong>. We present this data on
the pie chart on the <strong>right</strong>.
</p>
<p>
We consider the initial price
<strong>(price of the game on the release)</strong>. To
analyse the relationship between price and popularity,
<strong>below</strong> we present a scatter plot with the
price and popularity
<strong>(average number of players between January 2019 and
September 2023)</strong>
<strong class="steam">[4]</strong>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="data-row" style="padding-top: 0">
<div title="payment type" width="100%" height="286"
id="observablehq-viewof-free_games_pie_plot-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="data-graph">
<div class="data-graph-content">
<div title="price and popularity" width="1000" height="548"
id="observablehq-viewof-price_popularity_scatter_plot-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Developers</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
We are also interested in understanding the
<strong class="steam">Steam</strong>'s developer community. We
first analise the supported plaforms
of the games on the pie chart on the <strong>right</strong>
<strong class="steam">[5]</strong>. There are tree possible
platforms: <strong>Windows, Linux and Mac</strong>, and since Steam was primarily released on Windows
(becoming available to MacOS in 2010 and Linux systems in 2012), all games support Windows..
</p>
<p>
We also analyze the relationship between developers and games using a network graph. The <strong
style="color:red;">red</strong> <strong>circles
represent games</strong> while the <strong style="color:#6495ED;">blue</strong> <strong>circles
represent the developers</strong>. Also, <strong>developer nodes have different
sizes based on the sum of all of their games’ popularity</strong>.
</p>
</div>
<div class="data-row" style="padding-top: 0">
<div title="developers pie" width="100%" height="286"
id="observablehq-viewof-platforms_pie_plot-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="data-graph">
<div class="data-graph-content">
<div title="developers game" width="1000" height="820"
id="observablehq-viewof-graph_developer_game-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="data-section">
<h2>Developers World Map</h2>
<div class="data-columns">
<div class="data-row">
<p>
To visualize which countries are producing more games, we present a world choropleth map, where each
country is colored in different shades to show the <strong>number of game development
companies</strong> <strong class="steam">[6]</strong>.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="data-graph">
<div class="data-graph-content">
<div title="world map" width="1000" height="706" id="observablehq-viewof-world_dev_plot-52b3ab46"></div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
</div>
</main>
<footer class="app-footer">
<p class="shadow-text">Visualization created by:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a class="shadow-text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" target="_blank">
Claro Henrique
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a class="shadow-text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ" target="_blank">
Natã Raulino
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</footer>
</div>
</div>
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<p>Credit: <a href="https://observablehq.com/d/69559f5fbde20253">Trabalho Final Visualização by sales claro's
Workspace</a></p>
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