Origins

A Space Adventure to Teach Web Privacy - A repo for the Mozilla Privacy Arcade Game Jam Challenge, part of the 2017 Global Sprint.

Objective

"The big idea is to invent and prototype a web-native game that helps players use what they learn about privacy and security to protect themselves on the web." From: https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/mpa-game-jam-challenge

Specifically, the Origins game will focus on designing the game at this stage. Contributors are welcome to take it to the next level, i.e., implementation.

Learning Outcomes

Target audience: 14-16 years old web users

Level: Beginner web users

21st Century Skills: Problem Solving, Creativity, Communication

Origins a space adventure, where it is 3017 and the humans of Mars try to identify their origins. Some parties are interested in not disclosing this info, so finding and protecting info is essential.

This makes the game larger than the originally intended micro-games by Mozilla, but the fact that there is a story makes it easy to add pedagogical scaffolding that gives context to the learners to relate to. I give the story line and ideas for puzzles within the story, which I think should be plug-and-play. However, they should go from easier to harder.

To Do

• Storyboarding

• Digital Design

• Programming

• User testing (throughout)

• Accessibility

• The story could be appropriated as a board game for offline learning.