P2, Team 13: Concept Doc

Synopsis

• Stanford professor
  • Who is secretly Satoshi Nakamoto(The Mysterious Inventor of Bitcoin), he disappeared/passed away. He sends out a school wide email to announce that he hidden his hardware crypto wallet and the passcode to access his asset of over $1,000,000,000 worth of bitcoin. The hardware crypto wallet is locked away and the key to the wallet also needs to be interpreted in order to access the 

Tone

• Excitement
• Challenge
• Anticipation and mystery

The Setting

• Online + Box that can be played anywhere
• You are trying to crack the code to find the lost Bitcoin of a billionaire. 

Gameplay

• Mechanics

• • • Rules
      • Need to solve the puzzle by working together
      • Must unlock the ledger before one hour is up in order to win
    • Puzzles
      • Start with a box with a Ledger(Hardware wallet) locked inside and a QR code on top that sends them to either an email or video message
      • Scan the QR code to get to the instructions/setting of the game (video or text). The website inspection to find clues and decrypt things
        • Find the code to the lock of the box
      • Inside is another locked box with key
        • Key can be hidden in the compartment or under the box or inside the box. 
      • Then you can get to the ledger (puzzles in ledger):
        • Timer component, after the QR scan, the user logs onto a website, as soon as they’re in a timer starts
        • The QR Code scan (multi-person)
          • Need to work together to figure out which QR codes need to be scanned at the same time to unlock access to the webpage
          • Creates fun of fellowship
          • Send you to the wiki or whitepaper
        • Find trivia on Wikipedia page, Bitcoin whitepaper, online to find clues 
          • Use other clues from the original video or website to find the right page, paragraph, line number

• Dynamics

• • Urgency – needing to win the game before the time runs out
  • Collaboration – different tasks will require the team to work together and complete activities as a unit
  • Solving puzzles sequentially to unlock the next one
  • Level of competition – leaderboard of times

• Aesthetics

• • Fun of challenge
    • Series of puzzles and codes that need to be solved to “unlock” 
  • Fun of fellowship
    • Players will need to work together to solve puzzles and riddles to find the passcode and get the treasure
  • Fun of narrative
    • Develop the story of Satoshi Nakamoto who disappeared and left his fortune to only the brightest and most worthy Stanford CS students
  • Fun of sensation
    • Inclusion of physical puzzles, key, padlock, and crypto wallet to provide a level of sensation

Target Audience

• Stanford students
• Crypto enthusiasts
• Those familiar with technology

Key Challenges for Design

• Constructing replicable box of physical objects to go along with our technical components
• Creating physical puzzles of the right difficulty for optimal timing
• Creating the video or aesthetic-matching website to introduce the game

Key Challenges for Tech

• Timer
  • Creating a lasting timer that will start at the correct time, restart at new play, and reliably store the time
• Multiple QR scanning
• Hiding clues in the code of the website

Individual Contributions

1. Christina Kwak
2. Claire Muscat
3. Steven Pu
4. Flynn Traeger