10DTE-The Best Online Safety Game Ever!

The Best Online Safety Game Ever!

Introduction
Over this past week, I have been playing this online game created by Google that teaches the user what a digital citizenship is and how most importantly to become internet safe. This game is called 'Interland' and my task was to analyze this game and how it helps us learn about being internet safe. 

Digital Learning Object
The Interland Interactive game made by Google Inc.

Reflection
I had no idea that a game learning about online safety could actually be as fun as this! I definitely did learn a lot more about Phishing, Scam Emails and strong passwords whilst playing these super-fun games! I would definitely recommend everyone to give it a go, I mean who knows, you might learn something new! In this game, there are 4 main levels which are: Reality river, Mindful Mountain, Tower of Treasure, and Kind Kingdom. 

-Reality River is basically a level where the player is set in a river trying to cross it. To cross the river the player must answer the questions correctly in order to move up a step. The questions vary but mainly focus on Online Phishing and scam/fake emails. The player is shown many possible answers to the question but only one of the answers are correct! 

-The second level is called Mindful mountain where the level is set in a mirror-reflection game. The goal is to line up the pulsing beam up against angled mirrors in order to hit the correct people along the way. The goal is not to share the wrong information with people who should not see it. For example, the Situation is 'You have a funny video about your friends' you would want to share it to your friends only so you would angle up the beam and try to not hit the bad people out there on the internet, but rather your trusted friends. 

-The third level is a level called Tower of Treasure where the aim of the game is to run in a temple-run like platform whilst collecting different letters/symbols on a keyboard to form a hacker-proof password. To start off, you create a simple password but as the levels progress, you add in capital letters and randomized symbols to make it virtually unguessable. 

-The fourth and final level is called Kind Kingdom. In this level, the player is in a side-scroller type of game where the goal is to eliminate all cyber-bullies from saying mean things about the other internauts (that is; the online people in this game). You have to either trap the bullies or alternatively report them so they can do no more harm to the internauts. You also have to cheer up the internauts with what they have gone through so you can do this by picking up hearts around the map and giving them to the sad internauts which makes them all happy again!

Source
[Link to Game:]https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en/interland (Interland Interactive, Google 2018)

Question
Once you have given this a go: what have you learned about online safety? Also, is your password really a safe one?