Drescher, C.C.DrescherWallner, G.G.WallnerKriglstein, S.S.KriglsteinSifa, RafetRafetSifaDrachen, AndersAndersDrachenPohl, MargitMargitPohl2022-03-142022-03-142018https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/40371710.1145/3173574.3174134In recent years, microblogging platforms have not only become an important communication channel for the game industry to generate and uphold audience interest but also a rich resource for gauging player opinion. In this paper we use data gathered from Twitter to examine which topics matter to players and to identify influential members of a game's community. By triangulating in-game data with Twitter activity we explore how tweets can provide contextual information for understanding fluctuations in in-game activity. To facilitate analysis of the data we introduce a visual data exploration tool and use it to analyze tweets related to the game Destiny. In total, we collected over one million tweets from about 250,000 users over a 14-month period and gameplay data from roughly 3,500 players over a six-month period.en005006629conference paper