Infodemic Update Window Update

Team Republic's Update Window Update to it's submission at GameUp Africa's Jam for Democracy 2024.

We're the ones who spread misinformation, so why don't we go back and reflect on our part in sharing what we now know to be false? I have tweeted, liked, retweeted posted and helped spread things that sometimes i did not even get a chance to realize was wrong. When we realize our little contributions, we train ourselves to be critical and cautious of information we receive. Most importantly, the ones we help spread, even if by just a little bit. These things can topple democracies, and make our freedoms very difficult to re-achieve.  This corporate-research-social-media-epidemiological excuse of a game is a time machine that allows us to prepare for future misinformation based on our past experience and involvement.

Code, Music and Sound are composed by myself. Use of emojis are not only artistic (if that's possible), the entire project is highly optimized for accessibility in an educative campaign. The game runs on (PC and Mobile) every device with a browser and loads faster that 99% of the that exists today(I'm looking at you React). Source code and commit history are available here: https://github.com/LearningMike/Infodemic

The faintly visible background image used in my pitch slide and game was generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E, image name is "infodemic-background.png" in the Github project source linked.

There was also an attempt to use ChatGPT to create a list of trends after the first 30 i made (it was tedious), but it decided to add disinformation of its own as well, so i had to continue manually and duplicate what i had to keep the game running long enough. Maybe it's the free version i use, someone with the $200 monthly subscription of ChatGPT would have had a field day. Anyway, the point is i added to a Gameplay idea that misinformation can come from misplaced trust in software like these too.