IDENTITY
(Identity Game website)

Identity is a large-scale social game designed specifically to be played by at KinnerNet 2006. It’s a game of secret organizations, covert intelligence, suspicion and trust, cooperation and betrayal.

Every conference attendee will be given a secret codename and assigned to one of 5 enigmatic organizations:

• the time-bending profiteers of the Yao Corporation,
• the mysterious collective intelligence of Pi,
• the cartoon hedonists of Candyland,
• the thuggish brotherhood of Force Transfer, and
• a fleet of Mayan astronauts called the Quetzal.

The goal of the game is to score points for yourself and your organization.

Before you surrender any information to another player, think carefully about the consequences of your actions!!!

You score points by finding other members of your organization and cooperating with them ... or by discovering the organization and/or codename of a player from a competing organization and using this information against them.

You'll get information from other players however you get it... and to make your moves, just log in at the Identity website: http://www.identitygame.com. How you get the information is up to you, but there are only three moves in the game, you can execute all of them on the website:

 

CO-ORDINATE

Find someone who is on your team. Get them to tell you their codename. Enter their codename in the site – you and the other player both earn 25 points. This is the nice, cooperative way to earn points.

IDENTIFY

If you discover what team someone is on, and it’s not yours, you can enter that information into the website. You score 50 points and they LOSE 50 points.

EXPOSE

There’s one other nasty move that’s a little harder to pull off. To expose someone you must work with an enemy agent - a player from a different team then your own - AND you need to know the codename of the player you are targeting. When you and the agent you are conspiring with make a move, you both enter the target’s codename into the site, and earn 100 points. And the target loses 100 points. HUMILIATION!

 

The game is played in rounds of 2 hours each, and you can make 5 moves per round.

The game will end Friday evening. We will have a short awards ceremony and hand out the AWESOME prizes.
Prizes will be awarded to all the players on the winning team and also to the highest scoring individual players.

 
Identity was created by area/code (www.playareacode.com) in collaboration with Socialight (www.socialight.com).