Connecting with Games at the Global Sprint
Collaborating on privacy, security, & play
The Global Sprint is only days away. One June 1st and 2nd, 2017, people from around the world will join together to contribute their time and talent to open projects near and far. Some contributors will work remotely while others will visit local sites to team-up face-to-face, in real-time, with people interested in the same project. We hope that you feel invited to contribute however you’d like to any of the amazing projects submitted to this year’s sprint.
If you have a particular interest in games or play, the Mozilla Privacy Arcade might just be the project for you. The arcade includes 4 challenges, each themed on a different kind of play.
- You can invent role-playing adventures for Cryptomancer, the game that asks, “What if dragons, dwarves, and elves had an Internet of their own?” If you need a copy of the game, we have a free and DRM-free copy waiting for you.
- You can prototype and code web-native games that teach players online safety habits.
- You can design and build an Internet of Things (IoT) escape room full of privacy and security puzzles running off connected devices.
- You can localize and play-test offline games to teach online privacy and security in communities with limited access to the Internet.
You’re invited to contribute to any of these projects in ways that make sense to you. In particular, we’re looking for
- People who are new to role-playing games or online safety who can give us feedback on our Cryptomancer adventures. Do they make sense to you? Are they fun? Do they teach you ideas and skills that matter to you?
- Creatives and coders who can jam together in-person or online to build bite-sized micro-games about transferable online safety habits.
- Tinkerers and technologists who can share ideas of how to build an inexpensive, portable set for an IoT escape room.
- Activists and educators interested localizing and inventing childhood games, playground games, and board games that people can use to teach privacy and security wherever they live.
If any of these pathways look good to you, you can register for the sprint here.
We’re also looking for participants who might host sites, or even short meetups, for sharing ideas and testing our work. If you’re interested in getting a group of colleagues or friends together to work on one challenge or another, you don’t have to meet all day on both days of the sprint. You might schedule a short meetup or use a regularly scheduled play session or game night to think about a game-based Global Sprint project together. You can register your site here.
However you participate, thank you for your contributions to the Global Sprint! We can’t wait to work with you on June 1st and 2nd. In the meantime, please don’t be shy. Introduce yourself in the issues of whichever project speaks most to you and get ready to have fun.
Follow the Mozilla Privacy Arcade project online with @Mozlearn and #mozsprint.
