WELCOME TO IDENTITY
The game of Identity is a game of secret organizations, covert intelligence, suspicion, trust, cooperation and betrayal.
When they join the game, every player is assigned to one of 5 secret organizations and given a unique codename.
Your organization and codename are top secret! Do not give this information to other players without carefully considering the consequences!
THE GOAL OF THE GAME
Your goal is to score points for yourself and your organization.
HOW TO SCORE POINTS
Coordinate (25 points)
Coordinate with other members of your organization. First you must find a fellow agent and get them to trust you enough to give you their codename. Enter the codename into the site to complete the coordination, you and your fellow agent will both earn 25 points.
Identify (50 points)
Identify an enemy agent by discovering what organization they belong to and entering that information into the site. Successfully identifying an enemy agent earns 50 points for you and penalizes the target 25 points.
Expose (100 points)
Expose an agent by learning their codename and entering it into the site. To expose someone you must conspire with an enemy agent. Both you and the conspirator must enter the target's codename into the site. Successfully exposing an agent earns 100 points for you and penalizes the target 50 points.
You can only target a player once for each type of action, eg. once you identify someone, you can't identify them again.
MOVE CAREFULLY!
If you enter incorrect information into the site you will be penalized by the system! Entering bad data will earn you negative points instead of positive points for the attempted move. When you're working with other agents, make sure you give them the right info. You wouldn't want them to accidentally lose points, would you?
LIMITED MOVES
The game is divided up into rounds. Each round is 2 hours long. Each player can make up to 5 moves per round. When you have made 5 moves you must wait for the next round to begin before moving again, but you can still play the game by talking to other agents and gathering info.
BALANCE OF POWER
Each organization's current score is simply the sum of the current scores for all of the agents in that organization.
WINNING
The game will end on Sunday night. There will be an award ceremony to celebrate the winners. Here's who will receive prizes:
- All the players on the winning team
- The top 5 scoring individual players, regardless of team
- The top scoring player on the winning team will receive the grand prize
CREDITS
IDENTITY was created by area/code in collaboration with Socialight.
Game design and production: Frank Lantz and Kevin Slavin
Game design and coding: Michael Sharon