Why games?

Games are fun

Games are fun. Period.

Examples:

Mario,

Pokemon,

League of Legends,

Minecraft,

Fortnite

Games are cool

Games are used to demonstrate technological advances.

Examples:

IBM Deep Blue (Chess),

IBM Watson (Jeopardy!),

AlphaGo (Go),

AlphaStar (StarCraft)

Games are educational 

Games can teach you something.

Examples: SimCity, Oregon Trail, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Civilization

Source: Electronic Arts

Games are useful

Games can do useful stuff.

Examples: Fold.it, Microsoft Flight Simulator, PeaceMaker

Source: Fold.it

Quantum games

Let's play games on quantum computers!

• Quantum re-imagination of the classic Pong game.
• Explore unfamiliar concepts in a familiar setting.
• Bonus: demonstrate quantum supremacy advantage.

QPong

Developed by Anastasia, James, Jarrod, Junye

Minetest + Qiskit circuit puzzles

Qiskit Blocks

Developed by James Weaver (IBM)

A quantum folk tale about a wolf transversing in the multiverse of 3 classic folk tales in pursuit of a little boy Peter.

Wolfiverse

Developed by Aurélien, Diogo, Junye, Omar, Sameed, Yishan

And many more!

Find even more here!

Hooked?

Let's start making games!

Game engines

Direct library import

Pygame Example: QPong

Circuit Composer

QuantumCircuit

Quantum paddle

Classical paddle

Before measurement:

superposition => statevector backend

After measurement:

collapsed => qasm_simulator backend