Making Games at the Global Sprint
Inviting playful contributions to the Open Web
We’re excited to invite you to participate in our upcoming community event, Mozilla’s Global Sprint on June 1st and 2nd, 2017. This is a fast-paced, fun, 2-day collaborative work event where we’ll come together online and in person to work and hack on open projects that make the Internet healthier for all.
You can join in and participate, no matter your skill set or level. We’re looking for activists, coders, designers, artists, writers, educators, students — anyone who’s passionate about the open web. We’ve got a terrific list of projects that need help — all that’s missing is you!
As part of my work to promote and track teaching and learning about online privacy and security, I’ll be facilitating the Mozilla Privacy Arcade project along with several fantastic co-leads and site hosts.
The big idea behind the arcade is to teach about online safety and related Internet health issues like digital inclusion through fun, low-risk, games and play.
We have 4 challenges in the Mozilla Privacy Arcade project. Each challenge has its own repo (repository, or collection of files and resources) for easier participation:
- Cryptomancer Challenge. Craft openly-licensed, information-security adventures for this role-playing game (RPG) that mixes fantasy with an Internet made of crystals.
- Game Jam Challenge. Develop web-native games and micro-games that teach strong online safety habits and digital inclusion.
- IoT Escape Room Challenge. Design and prototype an inexpensive, portable escape room experience for participants to learn about privacy and security issues associated with the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Offline Games Challenge. Invent offline games that teach strong online safety habits and encourage digital inclusion that can be played anywhere, anytime.
If you’re curious about how to contribute to a challenge, check out its README.md file. Each README lists multiple ways to contribute content and manage your workflow through GitHub and more beginner-friendly platforms like Google Docs. Everyone is invited to contribute.
We are here for you — let your project and challenge leads know how to help you get involved.
Here’s more on how to participate, and here’s information on how you can bring a project to the sprint.
Once you register, you can visit the Mozilla Privacy Arcade repo to begin filing issues, sharing information about sprint sites, and making contributions to any challenge you like.
You can also host a site to gather community members for 2 days of collaboration, networking, and community building.
If you’d like more information or have questions about the project, please let me know by filing an issue in the project repo, emailing me, or tweeting at @MozLearn.
Online safety isn’t a game, but learning about it can be. I hope you’ll join us for the Global Sprint on June 1st and 2nd, 2017, and contribute your most playful ideas to the Mozilla Privacy Arcade!
