Email Hacking

With further discussion with tutors and students I can see a clearer outcome of the final manipulated effect on the player. Right now I will simulate a hack on the player's email address while they solve the puzzles throughout the game:

At the beginning the player will receive an email advertising to play this intellectually challenging game. In the email they will be given a password that is required to play the game (this is to allow me to know who is playing the game and what email address they were invited from). They enter the password (I am thinking the intro screen is to look like the end hacked email screen) and play the game and solve the puzzles to pull the character along to find out what the puzzle world image is. Once they solve the puzzle world or when they decide to stop playing, it will be revealed that the purpose for the character to have the player completing the puzzles was to hack the player's email and send the orignal invitation to all their contacts. How many emails are sent will depend on how many puzzles the player solved or just by how long they played the game. I would like to see the puzzles in the puzzle world as the hacking steps needed for the character to get access to the emails. This would mean the player was hacking their own email account without knowing they were.

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So from this I have made the purpose of the character's manipulation is to draw more players into playing this game and keeping the character alive. This I feel relates to the Cordyceps Unilaterus fungus as well as the method similar to multi level marketing (Amway etc.). I see the game character will be as much alive digitally as the Cordyceps Unilaterus fungus is biologically because of how it works and what its purpose is.

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For my final presentation it will ask for them to come to my studio to play where it is set up. If this was to be real not only would the game be online but (for ethical reasons to why not) it would also use a real hack instead of a simulated one. Because this is directed at my tutors I will use the AUT email design to make it look like the emails are really being sent using the tutors email account.

References

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Parasite Attacks Ant - Video. (n.d.). Retrieved July 30, 2012, from http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/6977/

Understanding MLM Companies | How Multi Level Marketing Works | First Class MLM. (n.d.). Retrieved September 3, 2012, from http://www.firstclassmlm.com/2007/12/05/how-mlm-works/