Web-native Games for Privacy & Inclusion

Join the Global Sprint to help teach online safety through games

How can we use the web to teach and learn about online safety in fun, low-risk ways?

During this year’s Global Sprint, we’ll be organizing a Privacy and Security Game Jam to make web-native games and micro-games that teach strong online safety and inclusion habits in fun, low-risk ways. This project is part of the larger Mozilla Privacy Arcade that includes 4 different game-based challenges about privacy, security, and digital inclusion.

The big idea behind the game jam is to invent and prototype games that give people transferable online safety skills they can use across the web.

We’re looking for contributors and site hosts from all backgrounds to help us make this challenge a success. You don’t need to know how to code to contribute.

There are lots of ways to get involved. You might really enjoy this challenge if you love:

• Championing online safety and inclusion.
• Storytelling.
• Art.
• Music.
• Gaming.
• Coding.
• Teamwork.

Contributors to the Privacy & Security Game Jam Challenge might craft and share:

• Ideas for new games.
• Ideas for adapting old games.
• Designs for different characters (or sprites).
• Designs for different game levels.
• Game mechanics.
• Puzzles.
• Music or sound effects.
• Design documents.
• Paper prototypes.
• Code.

In May and June, we’ll help aspiring privacy and security game developers connect with one another and prep for the sprint. Then, during the sprint itself, on June 1st and 2nd, 2017, contributors can work together to invent or further refine their designs and prototypes for games that teach about safety and inclusion on the web.

Prototyping games that #teachtheweb

Go here to register for the sprint and see if there are any local sites near you. If you’re interested in hosting a site — which is like organizing a meetup to work together face-to-face on June 1st and 2nd — let us know!

If you’re curious about game design or any of the Internet health issues at play in this challenge

1. Visit the Privacy & Security Game Jam Challenge repo.
2. Sign in or create a GitHub account.
3. Click on the “Issues” tab near the top of the page.
4. Visit Issue #1 to introduce yourself to our community of contributors.

If we can provide any more information or answer any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask! Look for another post next week about the IoT Escape Room Challenge.

Follow the Mozilla Privacy Arcade project online with @MozLearn and #mozsprint.