Digital You

PETERICT GAME JAM SUBMISSION - DIGITAL YOU

Features

Fullscreen for best experience and no weird artefacts.

Profile choice shapes the challenge: kids lose more privacy if careless, adults gain more reputation, and teens sit in the middle.

In the Watchers scene, hiding keeps you safe but lowers your reputation, while ignoring the risk boosts your standing.

The Security Check scene rewards balance — too much caution costs reputation, but recklessness costs privacy.

The Phishing scene uses a timer: reporting quickly is safest, ignoring is neutral, and clicking the link risks privacy but may earn reputation.

The Sharing scene makes reputation harder to gain if you’ve been highly private, while keeping things to yourself protects privacy but lowers your reputation.

At the ending, your balance shows whether you were trusted but careless, cautious but overlooked, or balanced and respected.

Game Purpose:

When you play as a child, the game is less forgiving of mistakes. One mistake — like oversharing or accidentally clicking something wrong — and your privacy suffers. On top of that, it's harder to build reputation, because adults online don't necessarily take kids seriously. This makes you feel exactly how vulnerable younger players are.

As a teen, you're caught in the middle. You can establish reputation more easily, and especially by taking social risks, but loss of privacy still stings. It acquires that classic tension teenagers have: wanting to be noticed and popular, yet still need to take care of themselves.

With an adult profile, reputation develops faster — more individuals listen to you and trust you. However, the disadvantage is that when you mess up, it stings worse. You're expected to know better, so caution vs. reputation indeed applies in this scenario.

Freepik and Pixabay used for images and sound track repectively.

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by DHEERAKA MADDUMAGE