The project was launched by the Library of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, which is the biggest scientific university in France. We had multiple goals: create a "real" game, with engaging gameplay, artistic direction and storyline; teach the basics of information literacy and train the audience's critical eye; raise awareness about the business of scientific information and Open Data, which is the heart of our theme.

We will work from a few questions helping us to understand, from both a diplomatic and a creative point of view, how to effectively engage the audience with Open Data through the means of videogames: how to create an "activist" game into the constrained context of a public institution, especially a university with commercial links with some of the entities criticised by the game? And how to speak about complex subjects with video games: what can be expected and what shouldn't?

Video game can be a powerful tool, if well handled! Come talk with us to understand together how to better use it for promoting open data!