Troy, alternate reality game
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Troy, created for the Experimental Gameplay Competition, is a game about invasion of privacy on the internet. As visitors to the site try to download a game made by a fictional character, they are lead to a 404 site.
The average visitor would probably not bother clicking on the link to the parent directory. But visitors who are inquisitive and prying enough will click on the link and be lead to files and information they weren’t supposed to see. If they keep going through this data, they'll get passwords to spy into more of the fictional character’s personal information. For example, they'll learn that the game developer has just broken up with his girlfriend Becky, and as visitors progress through the game, they uncover very private stuff that gradually reveal what went wrong in their relationship. Eventually, the curious would get a hold of the game they were originally trying to download, but it turns out to be a trap that the fictional character set for the player, as a punishment for going through his stuff. |
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Too bad it seems to be PC-only. All the "clues" look like they're in .exe files.
let me guess, the game is a 'trojan horse.'
lol thats cool
very cool, great potensial. shouldve been longer and taken everything a bit further out there though in the same direction it was going, like turning into a battle for your own computer, the hunter becoming the hunted and such
An absolutely great idea. Considering how pervasive this is starting to be in our lives, it makes sense a game like this would come to be.