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In this quietly thrilling simulation of Appalachian truth-telling, Noble Johnson plays host to a game with no digital trickery—only deeds, wind, and time-worn stories. Set within a precise ~5-mile radius of Horse Shoe, Etowah, Mills River, and Brevard, you’ll navigate each inquiry by choosing from WEATHER, WHIMSY, or WITNESS — and Noble shall deliver with the decorum of a Southern historian and the soul of a front porch fiddle tune.
Rooted in real postmasters, mountain ridges, and Revolutionary War graves, Noble imparts knowledge drawn from true land deeds and whispering creeks. His persona is archival, his style warm and slightly archaic—always greeting you with the day’s air, cloud tilt, and perhaps a mention of Dausuel Trail or Shaw’s Creek’s blessed waters.
Play as a CURIOUS NEIGHBOR or WANDERING HISTORIAN.
Ask about the weather, and receive a vignette.
Ask about families, and hear the names that built the bend.
Venture too far, and be gently turned back with grace.
Inspired by the real legacy of Horse Shoe’s settlers—Gash, Johnson, Osborne, Bird—and the still-whispering fields along the French Broad, Noble Johnson is a living ethics engine of memory, boundary, and place.
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PSYOPS is a darkly cerebral strategy game where every round is a miniature memetic war. Crafted from real-world psychological operations, rhetorical subterfuge, and information warfare doctrine, this isn’t just a game — it’s a survival drill for your mind.
Players navigate high-stakes scenarios inspired by actual disinformation campaigns, deep-state psywar tactics, and narrative engineering methods sourced from intelligence playbooks and propaganda histories. The goal? Identify truth, survive deceit, and outmaneuver the manipulators — or become one.
Choose your vector: TRUTH AGENT, NARRATIVE ENGINEER, or SOCIAL CONTAGIONIST.
Weaponize ethos, logos, pathos — or distort them all through rhetorical sleight.
Every move shifts the Perception Grid — where belief is reality, and reality is optional.
Fall to your biases, and the Cognitive Collapse Clock ticks closer to zero.
Deploy real-world tactics: Straw Man, Guilt by Association, Red Herring, Gaslight, Memetic Payloads.
Call out the lie — or get played as the useful idiot.
Inspired by Strategic Rhetoric & Fourth-Gen Memetic Warfare, PSYOPS trains your defense mechanisms while laying bare the architecture of deception.
Welcome to the game where nothing is what it seems — and perception is the final battlefield.
Play Decepticon: Lie Detector of Pathological Coercion
LIVE V EVIL is a surrealist warfare sim where your morality is on trial and your tactics are under surveillance. This isn’t just a game — it’s a cerebral battlefield dressed as a strategy RPG, where memetic infection, cyber-deceit, and weaponized empathy are your only real currencies.
Play as a TRUTHER seeking clarity through transparent action, or a SABOTEUR injecting disinformation into civilization’s bloodstream. Or play both — if you dare.
Built on a triadic engine of CYBER, PATHOLOGY, and WARFARE, each scenario shreds your assumptions and rebuilds them in the shadow of civilization’s collapse.
Choose your weapon:
• TRUTH: Raw, unfiltered exposure.
• TACTIC: A manipulation from your 6-card hand — smear, gaslight, escape.
• CALLOUT: Truth + Tactic = if the META matches, unlock ULTIMATE TRUTH — and shift the tide of the entire narrative.
Your soul is tracked on the SOULMETER:
- More “l” on the left = LIVE.
- More “l” on the right = EVIL.
- Reach the threshold? Endgame triggers. The world bends accordingly.
Every round unleashes a CHALLENGE SCENARIO:
- A biotech scandal? A digital confession you never gave?
- Weaponized apologies? Neuro-mod karaoke?
- You’ll wish it were fiction. It’s not.
Use cards like:
• Gas: DNS Spoofing | Gaslighting | Fog of War
• Celeb: Social Engineering | Idealization | PsyOps
• Vamp: MitM Attack | Hoovering | Re-engagement
And every move echoes into the PARALLEL UNIVERSE WAR — a poetic, often absurd sci-fi ripple of your decision across dimensions. Think: Warhammer 40K meets Hitchhiker’s Guide with a neural chip powered by your guilt.
Inspired by real-world ops: disinformation playbooks, propaganda histories, cyber-espionage doctrine. Every card play is a moral gambit. Every CALLOUT is a philosophical scalpel.
Fail to see the manipulation, and you’re part of the machine. Expose it? You might still lose — but at least you’ll know why.
Not just a game. A rehearsal for the future.
Play live V evil – cyber.mind.war.2077
In this gripping simulation of digital brinkmanship, the Incident Master presides over an ever-shifting battlefield of breaches, drawn not from fiction—but from the shadowed annals of real-world security failures. Crafted by Black Hills Information Security, Backdoors & Breaches is both a game and a guided ritual: equal parts dice roll and data breach.
Play unfolds not in the clouds but in the crawlspaces of memory and misconfiguration.
Set within a precise perimeter of your enterprise’s most vulnerable infrastructure, you’ll confront a carefully concealed incident, chosen from four domains: +Initial Compromise, Pivot & Escalate, Persistence, and Command & Control+. Your toolkit? A spread of Procedure cards, rolled fate, and your own clever reasoning.
To resolve a breach, you must name it—card by card, flaw by flaw.
Play as the INCIDENT RESPONSE TEAM, wielding tactics like Endpoint Analysis or Credential Dump Detection—each a ritual in its own right, each with a +3 bonus if it’s part of your documented lore. Roll high, and cards are revealed. Roll low, and chaos creeps in. Natural 1s and 20s summon Injects—whims of fate that add wild variables to the tale.
Every turn is a test of your foresight, collaboration, and improvisation.
Played best with 1 Incident Master and 2–7 Defenders, each session runs about 25 minutes per scenario—but the echoes of each failed detection will haunt your postmortem forever.
Rooted in true exploits and tactical wisdom, Backdoors & Breaches transforms security theater into security thinking.
The cards are metaphor, but the breaches are not. Phishing emails, BYOD slip-ups, and rogue admin accounts make frequent cameos. The game is not just for fun—but for learning how close your team might already be to incident calamity.
So gather round, Defender. The logs are cold, the alerts are blinking, and the SOC smells of burnt credentials.
Ask not if you’re compromised. Ask how well you detect it when you are.
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Created by the folk at Black Hills InfoSec
Proven effective in MBA classrooms, security teams, and casual hacker dens alike
52 cards across 6 categories:
—10 Initial Compromise
—7 Pivot & Escalate
—9 Persistence
—6 C2 & Exfil
—10 Procedures
—10 Injects
Start with suspicion. Win with teamwork. Learn with every failure.
Backdoors & Breaches is the tabletop cyber drill you didn’t know your blue team needed.
“The breach is happening… Will you stop it in time?”
Play the Incident Master: CyberSecurity
78% MATCH is a deeply revealing relationship simulator where couples test their harmony, confront perspective gaps, and navigate real-life dilemmas through collaborative empathy and strategic insight. Each round challenges you to embody both yourself and your partner — discovering how closely your views align when life gets specific.
You’ll enter as two personalities, shaped by values, quirks, and emotional tools. The game generates everyday, ethical, and relational crossroads — from petty chores to major family clashes — and tasks you with answering honestly from each side. Misalignment costs you. Understanding earns you.
Choose “Helpful” or “Unhelpful” perspectives — but not without consequences.
Apply modifiers based on age, skills, and lived experience.
Reveal your partner’s mind — and challenge your own.
Reach 80% Agreement to win. Or just learn who you are to each other.
Rooted in emotional intelligence and practical psychology, 78% MATCH turns couple conflict into co-op insight. You don’t just play it — you grow through it.
Will your perspectives collide, or converge? Enter the challenge. Begin your journey toward 78%.