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Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Data Dealer

  • Turn your database into a money machine! Even the tiniest details could be worth their weight in gold.
    Every dirty detail counts!
  • Living on the net and your phone? Worried about your privacy sometimes?
    Screw that.
  • Turn the tables!
    Become a data dealer and get all the dirty details on your friends, neighbors and the rest of the world.
  • Collect the best data delicacies from your underground sources, and create companies and online ventures.
    Build your own data empire!
  • Collect millions of profiles
    ...with sweepstakes, dating agencies, online personality tests and your own social web.
  • Rise from small-time back room data dealer to become a mighty data mogul!
    Turn data into cash!
  • Turn your database into a money machine! Even the tiniest details could be worth their weight in gold.
    Every dirty detail counts!
  • Living on the net and your phone? Worried about your privacy sometimes?
    Screw that.
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NEWS

July 2013

Data Dealer, the bitingly clever game about surveillance & privacy

Check out our video trailer, play the demo, take a look at our successful Kickstarter(yeah!) or read more about it.
DEMO »

PLAY NOW!

  • 3 shady agents and 5 darknet sources.
  • Run 4 companies & online ventures with more than 50 upgrades!
  • Over 30 profile attributes attainable for each profile in your database.
  • You´re starting with 1 Mio profiles & some pre-loaded game progress.
  • For testing purposes: short timer periods, high energy level.
  • No intro story (yet), no multiplayer, no login, no save & no sound.
  • Some bugs, of course ;)
Browser Requirements: Current Version of Chrome, Firefox, Webkit, Safari, Opera or Internet Explorer 9+. Based on HTML5/SVG, no Flash!
▶ Background Information
VIDEO TRAILER »
 

We need your support!

Data Dealer is being developed by a small team and as a nonprofit project. We don´t have a multi-million dollar budget. So, please:
▶ Support us with $$$ via PayPal. Whether you contribute $1 or $100, any amount helps! You will receive the same rewards as on Kickstarter.
▶ Like us on facebook.com/datadealer
▶ Tell your friends, blog, share, tweet, make some noise!  
▶ Check out our demo & send us your feedback:
Brilliant suggestions, cute complaints or even praise & worship? Bring it on!
▶ Simply post it to our Facebook page: facebook.com/datadealer
▶ Or, really confidentially, via email: inout@datadealer.com

Kickstarter

We made it. Woot!

GAMES FOR CHANGE

Data Dealer @ Games for Change

We've been getting amazing feedback, which feels pretty awesome after all the hours we have put into developing this thing!

They said

"A game that deals in personal data"
New York Times
"Lets you 'play god' with personal data"
Mashable (nice video included!)
"Kick-ass"
Jane Mcgonigal
"Intriguing"
David Pogue
"A game that plays with private information"
The New Yorker
"Play the part of a nefarious data dealer and see our privacy-free future up close. You would probably be shocked to find out how much marketers and companies know about you from the information you put on the Internet. In this new award-winning game, you can see what it’s like to try to grab and monetize people’s private data [...] a fun online game with a serious message"
Fast Company
"Players take on the role of a data broker using a variety of (sometimes nefarious) tactics to profit from an empire of personal data and learn about how their own information is collected and commodified along the way"
ThinkProgress
"Spreads awareness about how some companies gather personal data and why others want to purchase it so badly"
ProPublica
"A satirical game that puts players in the perspective of some of the most powerful and ubiquitous tech companies at the center of our current cultural and technological anxieties"
NBC News
"Don’t miss the game’s Tracebook — er, Facebook page"
Washington Post
"This game is just like real life!"
The Guardian
"Forget SimCity!"
CNET France
"Will this game be successful in educating people about how data is used? Almost definitely"
International Association of Privacy Professionals
"Offers up privacy awareness in great gaming style"
Lee Munson, Security-FAQs
"The game mixes gameplay about surveillance, personal data and privacy with some witty humor and some mild mockery of the world's biggest online destinations"
GamePolitics.com

Wanna stay up-to-date?

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We´ll sell your email address to the data broker bidding the highest...NO! Just kidding, we won´t. Our mailing list is handled by "Mailchimp". As far as we know they´re behaving well. We won't share your information with any other third party.
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