Challenge Summary
Welcome to this exciting idea contest! We’re glad to introduce this challenge to our great community. We need you to come up with a concept idea for a gaming/social site, specifically name and theme.
Round 1
All the requirements - Site Name and Theme.
Round 2
All the requirements - Site Name and Theme.
The primary goal of this contest is to come up with a design concept idea (name and theme) for the CSFV gaming community site. We need to have a name and a theme for the site as output from your ideas.
What is CSFV?
The Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV) program seeks to make formal program verification more cost-effective by reducing the skill set required for verification. The approach is to transform verification into a more accessible task by creating a game that reflects the code model, is intuitively understandable, and is fun to play. Completion of the game effectively helps the program verification tool complete the corresponding formal program verification proof. We are looking to use the tool to verify open source software.
The website that will host all these games is the one that needs ideas and a theme. The website will also host a Social networking and gaming community.
See Project Conceptualization document attached for detailed info.
Overall site concept
We envision this site as a global community with sub-sites focused on games, a nice mix of social features and heavy information delivery. Our two main references for this are Facebook and IGN (http://www.ign.com), social network standard + Gaming community website. Here are concepts we should take form each:
- From IGN: home page layout mostly, navigation, news. Although it’s not our intention to copy anything, we’d like you to suggest what’s best for the site requirements.
- From Facebook: our “IGN layout” would need social features for our purposes, like activity stream, connection updates, space under avatar for stats badges, connections, etc.
How does this work? The main/mother site (community site) will have a global navigation header, menu/tools, layout, footer. Games will have individual themed mini sites “sons” which deliver specialized information about the specific game like news, activities on that game, leaderboards, etc, everything becomes all about the “son” (game) BUT the global elements like navigation are kept and all access to community items (forums, blogs, profiles, search, etc) are kept in the same place. Games mini sites should be accessed from the global menu. See how IGN homepage holds global news/info about all kind of games but when you pick a specific game it delivers individual information about those games only, see www.ign.com “mother”, 360.ign.com “son”, ps3.ign.com “son”.
Requirements
We want ideas and concepts around a central theme of the website and the community/social aspect, and name of the CSFV site.
Basically, the general theme of the website should be:
- We want you to have fun by playing these games. But also, you are doing great software verification work!
- This is Government funded – but the point is to not do work for the government, but to help the government make YOUR internet more secure.
- This is going to be YOUR social and gaming community!
- Theme is also how the site should feel like. For instance we can have a site themed with Matrix, Avengers, Tron, anything you come up with and those are the ideas that we want to turn into the site theme.
Key concepts, Themes and proposed angles:
- “Save the world, by proving/verifying that these programs are secure”
- “Your effort will lead to a more secure internet for everyone”
- “DARPA, the folks who invented the internet for you, wants to make it more secure. By playing these fun games, you are verifying key building blocks of the internet, and proving that they are secure.”
- “We are on a crusade against malicious people trying to break the internet and steal data”
Target Audience
Casual gamers, everyone who likes games from children to adult persons.
Judging Criteria
You will be judged on your creativity of the idea and how well you addressed the outlined requirements.
Submission File
Your ideas can be presented in any way you want as long as the idea proposition is clear. We encourage the use of images (their design and professionalism will not influence the score/placement of the submission), to explain otherwise hard to understand ideas.
You may submit a zip file containing PDF, plain text, Word, OpenOffice, or HTML files. Choose whichever format you find most convenient. We don’t take care too much about the submission files as long as they are “readable” and you cover all the requirements.
Source Files
Identical to your submission file.
Preview Image
Create a 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode and place a screenshot from your submission within it.
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