Turning Player Experience into Cultural Heritage: ”YouPlayed,” a Platform for Archiving Gameplay Histories Using the Media Arts Database

Abstract

This paper introduces ”YouPlayed,” a web platform designed to record, share, and utilize individual gameplay histories as cultural resources. Its key feature is the integration with ”Media Arts Database” via SPARQL, which allows users to systematically log their play experiences using authoritative bibliographic data. We detail the system's architecture, discuss the AI-assisted development process that accelerated its creation, and demonstrate its potential as a citizen science initiative. YouPlayed transforms the ephemeral act of gameplay into structured, analyzable data, contributing a novel resource for game studies and digital humanities.