Project Deliverable 01: Interim Group Project Report

Think of this midterm assignment as a project report.

The groups are well-established by now, you already picked a theme and identified a set of people, techniques, and technical artifacts. You have been advised by the instructors on the importance of including the concepts we discussed (from the literature) into your game plans. So far, so good.

By the end of March, your group will prepare a report on how much progress you made with the project. The status report should be brief (3 pages) and contain the following parts:

1. How much progress have you made in the concept of the game (instruments, rules, game-play). What was improved since you first presented the project proposal ? For obtaining full points, you must include concepts and examples from the readings (100 points).

2. What are the new technical artifacts, characters, mitigations and attack techniques that you have included thus far? Please list all the cards that you have already developed. We are expecting for, at least 30% of your card deck to be completed by now (100 points).

3. How is the game representing the history of hacking? Please include examples from the readings to make your point about the game in terms of how it allows us for understand aspects of the history that otherwise we would not be able to understand. (100 points).

The goal of this report is to obtain feedback from the instructors: we (the instructors) will read and comment on the reports in order to help you address any difficulty you may have encountered (technical, anthropological, historical, it does not matter, we are here to help).

Use this time and opportunity to express any challenge the group may have encountered (or any new research direction you might want to take). We want to make sure you on the right track to complete the assignment (and complete it well).

Next steps: Assign one person in your group to be a Scribe. The role of the scribe is to manage the assembly and delivery of each project deliverable. To turn in a deliverable, the scribe needs to place it in their Google Drive folder for this class. For this first deliverable, the Scribe should contact Rex (rstayers@nd.edu) to let him know which Google Drive folder to look at to collect your group’s deliverables.

The interim report is due on March 26, 2026 by 5pm.