On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 12:29 -0500, Alex Vachon wrote:
> Good point Xavier, and I think it's Molière himself who said that only
> humor allowed him to say the things he wanted to say. But if you are
> going to play in someone's backyard pretending that you are going to
> break things or sneak in through the window just for fun, you won't
> find any volunteer in this paranoid environment we live in. The only
> thing I can think of is this however: a company is asking hackers to
> test it's site to verify their new security system.
Ah, I see what you mean - you raise a very valid issue imho. While we
were talking or playtesting the first versions of HackIt, players were
really puzzled at first ("is it for real? Am I going to get into
trouble?").
Maybe one way to address this issue is to start the game with a
disclaimer like we sometimes see in movies ("this is a fiction and a
parody"). It breaks the effect of surprise, but that may actually be a
good thing here.
Xavier.
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