3.12 - Love & Deceit: Hackers

Idea for March 27, 2008

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Theme: Love and Deceit

includes topics that expand on the theme

Genre: Action/Adventure/Simulation

game genre with possible significant changes or important points

• A text-based adventure RPG relying on deceit and treachery

Mechanics/Systems

individual gameplay mechanics and mechanics categorized by system

• Online:
  • As a hacker, the player is capable of of roaming cyberspace, which presents as a 3D space
  • Links appear as doorways to different areas
  • Sites may have firewalls, anit-virus programs that defend against hackers
  • For kicks, some sites could be tributes to different games
  • Hackers could possess godlike powers online overtime in terms of transportation, reshaping the online world or annihilating less powerful avatars of less capable hackers
  • Hackers can also create their own viruses, infect websites and more
• Offline:
  • The player can purchase new hardware and software that they purchase in the Real World
  • Upgrades offer advanced abilities in the Online world
  • Other elements can also affect your abilities: where you access the Online world can also be important
  • Player can also communicate with friendly hackers to exchange code, password information and other tricks

Story

narrative elements concerning plot, characters, world

• Setting:
  • Takes place in an advanced digital world in which users can create sims and avatars
  • Game takes place in both the Real World and cyberspace
  • Change in one world can affect the other
• Real World:
  • The player is a hacker in the real world, and sits at a computer
  • Changes in the computer and addition of new programs can enhance the player's abilities in cyberspace
• The Player:
  • A hacker that is hired by a puppet company
  • Online alias: happy_man36
  • You are hired to cover up a conspiracy by eliminating information on the net (deleting websites, blocking/eliminating avatars)
  • Ultimately you turn against your employer (turns out to be the government)
  • You end up running from government agents (at least digitally)
• Rival hackers OR people from the government threaten the player
• Eventually, there does come to some offline interaction and conflict

Audience

includes possible target user group traits

Possible Technology

includes hardware that would best support the game

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Contributors

includes GDDG members who contributed to this idea and were present during the discussion

• Lanz Singbeil
• Mark Lauman
• Peter Gao
• Vincent Cua
• Samppa V. Raski
• Giggs Subsermsri