About

Code Hunting Games and the @treasurehuntbot have been developed at the University of Urbino, by faculty members of the course in Applied Computer Science, for the CodeMOOC course.

• Prof. Alessandro Bogliolo
• Lorenz Cuno Klopfenstein
• Saverio Delpriori
• Brendan Paolini

The source code of the bot is hosted on GitHub and released under the MIT License.

Code Hunting Games has been used in several large-scale games, including coding-related events in Urbino (with 200–300 participants) and an international multi-game event during CodeWeek 2017 with 22 parallel treasure hunts and a total of over 1000 participants.

Publications

• Klopfenstein, Lorenz C., Delpriori, Saverio, Paolini, Brendan D., Bogliolo, Alessandro. X marks the Bot: Online coding-based treasure hunt games for code literacy, Proceedings of INTED 2018, 10.21125/inted.2018.0951 (2018).
• Klopfenstein, Lorenz C., Delpriori, Saverio, Paolini, Brendan D., Bogliolo, Alessandro. Code Hunting Games: A Mixed Reality Multiplayer Treasure Hunt Through a Conversational Interface, Internet Science, INSCI 2017, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 10750, 10.1007/978-3-319-77547-0_14 (2018).
• Klopfenstein, Lorenz C., Delpriori, Saverio, Malatini, Silvia, Bogliolo, Alessandro. The Rise of Bots: A Survey of Conversational Interfaces, Patterns, and Paradigms, Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 555–565, ACM, 10.1145/3064663.3064672 (2017).
• Klopfenstein, Lorenz C., Bogliolo, Alessandro. The Quiz-Master Bot: a Persistent Augmented Quiz delivered through Online Messaging, Proceedings of INTED 2017, 10.21125/inted.2017.2328 (2017).