GameGoogle: A Search Engine for Mechanics in Video Games

Abstract

This paper introduces a new search engine for finding game mechanics internal to a game. The system utilizes a custom made database containing extracted gameplay information from openly available game walkthroughs, manuals, and guides along with general information about the game. This information is displayed as an interactive web application that displays relevant games to the user based on keyword queries. We conduct a preliminary user study to evaluate the relevancy of the results for the system and discuss future directions and feature implementations.