We need ideas for games.

[chadsansing]

Help us come up with ideas for childhood, playground, and tabletop games that teach about online safety and inclusion.

Describe and/or link to your work by commenting below.

[xellpher]

How about something like Monopoly, except that your goal in the game is to become the mightiest Internet company? The streets from the original game could be smaller companies that you acquisition etc. The chance events would be privacy/security issues that affect the player's life. Maybe even introduce a counter-force to the monopoly, hackers that have a way to slow down the process of monopolization...

[chadsansing]

That sounds like a really interesting start, @xellpher - what might some of the properties be in terms of privacy habits or security features you could buy to protect yourself?

[xellpher]

I'm thinking both hardware firewalls/routers (or improving the settings of) and improving browsing habits (not clicking on links in e-mails, installing browser add-ons, better passwords). To begin with. I've got to put a lot more thought into this.

[chadsansing]

@xellpher, the browsing habits seem especially interesting to me as something broadly helpful. I wonder if some properties might be browsers, others might be add-ons and password managers, etc.

[xellpher]

@chadsansing sounds good. I'd love to get net neutrality into this somehow also. I'll try and get something into a repo later today.

[chadsansing]

+1, @xellpher.

[jgmac1106]

I was thinking like the game where you "choose career" paths but this time you pick one of three broswers each with different levels of privacy and settigns you choose from. You start with privacy bucks but have to hand them in as you play and land on different squares. The person with the most privacy bucks at the end wins.

[chadsansing]

@jgmac1106, this sounds like fun! Reminds me also of the Web Ninja idea:

https://www.mozillapulse.org/entry/321

[tromand]

@chadsansing could my role playing game matches your request ?

[chadsansing]

For sure. Share under #8?

[gauravk4292]

We can create simple game like Taboo, using online security words which we generally use while using internet. There can be multiple levels from beginner to professional, as level goes up level of the words/phrases/concepts will also get hard and hard. Game will be easy to make, as we only need to gather all basic concepts known by everyone who use internet, and need to be categorize them into lower to higher order.

Any comment/suggestion plz...

[barrosgeraldo]

@gauravk4292 I love play taboo game card to learn English here in Brazil, It's is a great ideia.

[ngaumont]

Hi,

@fallen, @arroway and @my-le made a game to teach privacy on the internet.

The game is kinda like "The Mysteries of Peking". Each player has 2 profiles one for her and one for her target. A profile contains hobby but also some computer related stuff (using Mac/Windows/Linux etc.).

At her turn, the player choose a target and an action that the target would do such as do a web search, buy something on internet etc, upload a picture ... By doing the action, the target reveals about herself such as the query she made. The game master has then to explain what is the information, who can gather this information, why is this information needed, how it is collected and how to prevent its collection.

The action is conditioned by a roll to induce more random.

There is a small page explaining this and also containing the cards to print.

Noé

[chadsansing]

@gauravk4292 - have you had the chance to draft a set of cards for people to test?

[chadsansing]

@ksadorf - this is very cool and makes me wonder about applications for people living in vulnerable communities. They could play to "track" personas/profiles like those of people where they live to better understand how others might track them and to better escape that tracking.