SGL: A Scalable Language for Data-Driven Games

Summary: SGL is a scalable declarative language and system for data-driven games, encoding complex game logic as relational operations. Demo shows a complete game built in SGL, workflow to modify it, and visualization of relational operators as the game runs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4068
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.3221927e-05
Overall Rank: 9,520 | 33.84%
DOI: -

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9,058	Efficient Approximation of Certain and Possible Answers for Ranking and Window Queries over Uncertain Data	2023	VLDB	5.3880466e-05

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7,752	Scaling Games to Epic Proportions	2007	SIGMOD	5.6103634e-05

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