Introducing PlaNet: a tool for visualizing player communities.

Online gaming has taken on an indispensable role in popular culture and with it interest in understanding all types of player communities - be it directly within or around a game - shifted into the focus of attention of game developers. While research on player networks has proliferated, visualization of these communities and networks has received little consideration. In this paper we introduce PlaNet , a tool specifically targeted toward visualizing Player Net works. We reflect on the present state of development and utilize a social network derived from data from the matchmaking website the 100.io to demonstrate its current visualization capabilities.