COP3530 Project 3 README Steampunks
Current Team Members:
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Joel Liston
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Serafina Myers
Previous Team Members:
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Austin Rhee
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Serafina Myers
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Jonathan Kennel
The aim of this project will be to provide game publishers or developers with information regarding current trends. This allows for informed decision making regarding game planning, and allows one to observe trends in genre popularity, prices, and other sets of information as it relates to average user reviews.
To run the project, use the CMakeLists.txt configuration file, and run main. Make sure that final_data.csv is in the data folder before you start, as this is the dataset our application uses.
References:
SteamSpy API
https://steamspy.com/api.php
Official Steam Web API
https://steamcommunity.com/dev
Tracked Data Points:
Appid - Unique identifier for each item.
Genre - Top describing the genre of the application.
Type - Used to identify type of app. Includes games, demos, movies, and dlc.
Owners - Roughly correlated with purchases, can be swayed by price, giveaways & discount frequency.
Metacritic - Metacritic score for the app.
Developers - Lead Developer
Price - How much the game costs. Based on initial value, not the price when affected by steam sales.
Positive - Positive reviews left by users.
Negative - Negative reviews left by users.
ccu - Concurrent users.