Virtual Pets Game

The Virtual Pet Game is a game for players to raise virtual pets in a web community. Through the interactions between players and pets, players can ask common sense question to pets (e.g. When ____, you want to eat?) and get the answers from other player. The answers from other players are also the common sense knowledge we would like to collect (e.g. When you are hungry, you want to eat) and make their pets smarter. In addion to questions and answers, we also added the voting funtionality to prevent malicious players to pollute the data we collected.

PTT is the chosen platform of our Virtual Pets Game. It is a BBS (Bulletin Board System) that is accessible via a text-only terminal interface in Chinese. The primary purpose of PTT is to provide users an environment for information-sharing, yet it also provides games for entertainment. The main reasons why we developed our pet game on PTT is that it has the largest social network in Taiwan (over 800,000 log-ins per day on average). We try to utilize the great amount of players to enhance the efficiency of data collection.

  Author：Bani, Mokoko, and Rex

  Version：Ver.2

  # of collected sentences：1628804 (~2009/11/11)

  Documentation：Click

  Link of the game：telnet://ptt.cc ->(P)lay ->(C)hicken