SISÉCURE

ACADEMIC GAME PRODUCTION PROJECT

GAME DESIGNER

MANAGEMENT - SINGLE PLAYER - FIRST PERSON - RATED T

SisécureTrailer.mp4

OUR UNIVERSITY'S SYSTEM NEEDS YOUR HELP.

Cyberattacks have been growing in intensity, leaving our servers vulnerable. Can your ability to visualize and travel through our campus' systems help us prevent a total shut down?

Be careful not to be the cause of our downfall.

The biggest challenge

|from boring to entertaining

... or how to make reading emails fun.

THE QUESTION

The client requests a game that reinforces good cybersecurity habits; how can we accomplish this mandate without sacrificing fun factor?

THE ANSWER:

Focus on focus
Flexible Generation

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Focus on Focus

Focus keeps boredom at bay, so I prioritized

creating high stakes + challenge
evolving the game with the player + inclusive
a consistent flow of stimulation + engagement

Let's not forget the funny emails.

flexible generation

Office life is rigid, but with a flexible, yet controlled generation...

of email contents
of difficulty modifiers
of enemies spawnings

... our mechanics can be flexible and engaging.

Input and remember a password per campus

Manage enemies and recognize their quirks

PROTECT AND MANAGE THE SERVERS

sort spam emails without making mistakes

Courriels_CyberFeatureDoc

EMAIL SYSTEM

Creating this core system came with its pitfalls, but sorting emails is a tedious, not fun, rigid process.

create flexibility where there were none, I conceptualized a generation system that prioritized two elements:

Organic generation
Organic difficulty levels

Email entries are divided into components (ex: header, content, sender...) and tagged as either Important or Spam to offer an organic way of generating new email types.

Each component is then tagged with a difficulty level based on how easy it is to discern their authenticity. This meant that various combinations of the same components could have varying levels of difficulties.

The biggest challenge

|Simplifying information

... finding the balance between intuitive and overwhelming

THE QUESTION

There are three computers and passwords to remembers, a general control panel, enemies constantly spawning, and a bunch of alerts going off at once... how do we manage all that?

THE ANSWER:

Streamlining navigation
Minimizing useless information

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simple controls

digestible information

cybernavigationpresenttion - Made with Clipchamp.mp4

I have created various tools and documentations to help guide and unify the team's vision, such as the game design document as well as examples of interactive systems in presentation format.

navigation

Streamlining navigation by ensuring the information necessary is visible and quickly accessible.

ex: keeping the player camera fixed and the key elements' position in the environment the same.