Cat Park [Game]
Cat Park is a free, mobile-friendly, web browser-based game about disinformation developed by the Dutch studio Tilt with input from the University of Cambridge and funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center.
Summary:
Cat Park is a free public resource to foster global resilience to disinformation.
Cat Park is an interactive story where players choose their path across a game map, through dialogue options and a series of graphic and text puzzles that simulate techniques commonly used in media manipulation campaigns. Players will simulate the creation of emotional headlines, attention-grabbing memes, manipulative imagery, and polarizing rhetoric and attempt to counter disinformation with similar tactics. Player scores are measured by the number of “friends” they earn for completing game challenges, and players can see how their scores compare with the max possible score.
The game can be played in 10-15 minutes and contains an optional pre- and post-game survey to evaluate improvements in players’ abilities to spot disinformation.
A supplemental lesson plan teaching about media literacy is also available and provide easy-to-understand overview of misinformation and disinformation, inoculation theory, science behind the game and more.
Language: This game is playable in English, Dutch, Serbian, German, Russian, French, Greek, Spanish, Arabic, Czech and Amharic.
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Disclosure: The Global Engagement Center is also a funder of Ctrl+Alt+Disinfo.