Resilience Game Design: Save lives with games!

Can you learn how to protect your community from a cyberattack? Imagine if a wastewater treatment plant was cyber-attacked during an ice storm or malicious hackers shut down a hospital during a hurricane. Government agencies typically run "tabletop exercises" with stakeholders (managers, directors, operators, etc) of critical infrastructure (power, communications, water, etc) to prepare, plan, and practice disaster scenarios. At RIT, we have a world-renowned game design program, which has been funded by the Army Cyber Institute at West Point to rethink and enhance these exercises as "resilience games" called "Jack Voltaic." Our group of researchers will demonstrate our current working prototype of our resilience game, which teams of people can play. Attendees can team up to defend against attacks on the critical infrastructure of a notional city and learn how to save lives with games.

Screen shot of resilience game

Email can be trouble!

Gas station explosion

Protect your accounts!

Phishing for information

System shutdown!

Water infrastructure problems!

Ransomware attack!