A Game About the Good, the Bad and the Ugly That Rule Our World

Megalomaniacs aim is to initiate conversations around wealth, power, and influence. Who are the people that rule our world? What do they use their power and influence for? And why is Jeff Bezos perceived as more modest than JK Rowling? By analysing more than 300 million data points on the internet we wanted to find out what people really think, and why that is so.

Megalomaniacs was created by FUPE, a collective that questions dominant power structures as tools to create individual and collective agency. Our ambition lies in the belief that altruism has the potential to drive societal betterment, transforming individuals, communities, and the world at large. 

The numbers in this game were contributed by management consulting firm TD Reply . Using social listening tools and proprietary algorithms, over 300 million data points (in the English-speaking internet) were analysed over a one year period between 2022 and 2023. TD Reply used them to create the scoring system for this game. Net worth and height information was taken from Wikipedia and other open sources. (date: October 2023). Noise signifies the total amount of data points found for a specific person in a given period of time.