Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

This work pays homage to one of the best educative games of all time. The page simulates the gist of its gameplay:

You are a detective that has to recover an important piece stolen by a V.I.L.E operative.

By interviewing the locals you get clues about the whereabouts of the suspect and their identity.

This chase will take you all over the world...

The adventure ends with you matching features of the criminal, issuing a arrest mandate for them and recovering the stolen item from their hideout.

The process

This dataviz was made with R, mostly {ggiraph}, in Quarto. I specially like how the sprites fit really well in the piece as well as the many tricks I used to make the tooltips and hover animations. I also did some extra work with the sprites: using {ggpath} to put them in the page, {ggfx} to make borders around them and {magick} to manipulate images.

Authorship

This dataviz was made by Ícaro Bernardes. To see more pieces like this follow me at:

• Twitter: @IcaroBSC
• Github: @IcaroBernardes
• Linkedin: @icarobsc

Sprites and artwork were made by Brøderbund Software, Inc.