That's Whack!

That's Whack!

That's Whack! is a short puzzle/educational game with the aim of making information accuracy easier to see by practising with this game. You can play through the news or email system, where the main game loop is working article by article (or email by email) and selecting all the suspicious sections, such as an exaggerated headline or an email not addressed to you. You can also access more information to help you select the suspicious stuff (such as verified authors and trusted publishers) from the documents provided next to the emails/articles. These come in sets of five, and you get feedback after each article as well as overall performance across the five articles/emails. 

Brevan the Beaver is your helpful guide throughout the game! He'll walk you through the tutorials and stay alongside you as you go through the game. You can also customise him in your profile, by using Brevan Bucks (won throughout the game) to purchase skins for him - and he'll wear the skin everywhere. The game also has a saving system, so don't worry about losing progress.

Inspiration

Having experienced hours' worth of cybersecurity training, all of us felt it was tedious, and the lessons didn't stick. We wanted to take this opportunity to reshape the way we learn how to assess information accuracy online by improving the training process through gamification.

This game was created in Godot for the <WHACK> 2025 hackathon, by a team of four. I worked on the news articles - creating and translating the JSON files that store the articles into a system that can display and review the articles, as well as linking the performance in the articles to the UI and ensuring the beavers react accordingly. I also created all assets for the game.

Access the GitHub: https://github.com/MikeyMictan1/Giddy-Up-Glitch-Whack-2025