Congratulations! You have been selected to lead an experimental branch of XQW Group.
Your team provides one key service: influence. You’ll start by influencing social media in the country of Tiar. There are other systems to exploit later.
Features
- Control of a business that provides influence for hire, mostly through social media.
- Missions from a variety of clients: corporations, talent agencies, governments, and others. You choose who you want to work with and what types of jobs you're willing to undertake.
- A network of public attention, eager for the next scandal that you may choose to break
During your experience, you might reflect on questions such as:
- How does what we pay attention to and what we ignore shape reality?
- Who is manipulating our attention, and why?
- How is social media shaping news and journalism?
- How is media used to both promote and fight authoritarianism?
(Or, you might just blithely pursue profit and influence. The choice is yours.)
More from Influence, Inc.
Other announcements
Design Notes: Eroding democratic normsAs much as Influence Inc. is a game about media manipulation, it’s also a game about patterns of eroding democratic norms. The game world is very much designed to reflect our present reality, through a blurred and fragmented mirror. Events and clients are amalgamated and often satirized, but all have one or more real world parallels. Your operations target the fictional country of Tiar. Over ti…Design Notes: Dystopia doesn't always look darkI've been asked why the overall look and feel of Influence, Inc. isn't darker, given its rather nefarious premise. As a player, you are selling media manipulation services targeting a country hovering on the edge of authoritarianism. There are many excellent games where the mood clearly underlines the idea that the situation is dire – like This War of Mine, Beholder, and Papers, Please. With In…PatchHope was accidentally a bit too easy. Fixed it. (Sorry.)