
BlackWire
A downloadable game
You are a hacker working for the CIA. Specializing in investigations of criminal affairs, you believe in bringing the worst criminals to light. Of course, as all hackers do, you use BlackWire, a completely secure communication app often meant for the darker side of the world. A hacker-safe messaging app for criminal affairs, if you will.
That is, until you've hacked it. You've done the impossible, found a secret exploit that unlocks the accounts of a select few people. Priceless information, even if it's just for a few accounts. But as you continue to investigate, you realize that BlackWire may have been a far darker world than you originally believed it to be.
Pretending to be someone you're not, you continue texting your "friends" under the alias of your newly unlocked accounts. Through social engineering, you slowly gather information about the dark side of the criminal world and direct that precious knowledge to the CIA by a series of questions.
BlackWire uses a prompt-based messaging system for its communication. After your correspondent responds, you will be given three options as a response. After selecting one, the conversation will continue. Your objective is to answer the final questions given to you in the CIA File Report. This report will ask you questions that you should have gathered from your conversation. Once you answer all the questions correctly, you pass the level and move onto a new account.
Your dialogue choices determine what information you get. Don't waste it.
Submitted for the "Not a Game" Jam.
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