Freedom of Information: The Game! (Made in 2 Days!)

Descrição

A game made in 2 days! Welcome to the age of information – all you have to do is get it. This game was inspired by a session at the Society of Editors event on 11th-13th November 2012. What we looked at was a two stage process – the first was getting your Freedom of Information (FOI) request approved. This a a rock-paper-scissors type game where you the competing pressures of the Cost of Request, the Review of Request and the Information Commissioner are put to work to get the information out. Second is then sifting though your obtained FOI too see what lies beyond the redacted information. Once both stages are completed, then you’re finally able to write a story with the remaining time.

This game took us about 2 days to make from start to what you see here. The game uses HTML5 so you do need a current web-browser or be playing on an iOS or Android device to play it. If you can’t see the game (below) then click here for help. There is a direct link to the game at bit.ly/foithegame and all of the instructions you need to play the game are built within it. The game has eight levels of puzzle fun – see if you can get all of the secret documents in FOI: The Game.

Como jogar

The game has 2 stages; in stage 1 you need to play a rock-paper-scisors game to unlock the FOI requests. In stage 2 you need to drag and drop the matching redacted blocks to reveal the hidden text.