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A topic by HOUYOKI created 48 days ago Views: 140 Replies: 6

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Hello i'm not entirely new to game development but i consider myself to be amature level in terms of game development so i wanted to ask this. i want to make a project which's a video game and the idea is about topics in cybersecurity such as fake emails, phishing and that sorta thing, the main goal of the project is to spread awareness of such topics. lets just say i want to make a simple game program which gets updated every week to test the user's ability to detect any system breach through a screen and he gets to either have certain inputs or try and fix the issue using various ways such as commands or any sort. how would that possibly be achieved? any ideas or suggestions?

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Hodslate47 days ago

Sounds like people will be sceptical of it being an actual scam

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HOUYOKI47 days ago

oh.. how can i make them think otherwise?

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Hodslate46 days ago

Maybe a message on the page and in the game itself stating the intentions

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redonihunter46 days ago(+1)

Do not do "clever" stuff like making the game do actual things on the user's system. Like trying to find data to scare the user

Most people do know if they play a game, so the issue should not even be an issue.

Also most people wanting to play games do not want to be educated, so you have to wrap it in a way that they want to play the game and the awareness/education is happening as a side effect.

If you succeed, you might not want to give scammers a manual how to improve their scams. But if your goal is awareness, you can keep it in general unspecific terms.

Basically your plot could be similar to games like Papers, Please or That's not my Neighbor. Only you would accept or reject situations, like emails or IT requests.

I do not think people would return to such a game on a weekly basis. This is not Wordle.

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HOUYOKI46 days ago

i was thinking of making a game similar to paper please which suits the project more and is more entertaining. can you please advise me on any good tutorials or courses which teach me to develop a game similar to that one? tysm

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redonihunter46 days ago(+1)

If I knew how to do that, I would make such a game myself and be a successful indie game developer ;-)

Papers, Please was apparantly made in Unity. Depending how you want to present the game you could use any other game engine as well, even rpg maker. I can also imagine renpy and of course godot. And for starters even twine.

So maybe have a look at common game engines and what they can do and what you can do and think about what you need to implement your intended game mechanics. But basically you can look up any of the tutorials on how to create your own game. Maybe do not search specifially for platformer games...

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