CIA: Comment Investigation Agency

Start Screen - preparing to break in and beat down toxic people
Eavesdropping on their conversations to identify the toxic ones
Using tables and sofas as cover from gunfire

Inspiration

Love for indie rogue-likes such as Enter the Dungeon combined with unanimous hate for stupid and toxic comments online.

Problem Statement

Online toxicity poses a serious challenge for platforms and publishers. Online abuse and harassment silence important voices in conversation, forcing already marginalized people offline.

What it does

Gamifies being against toxicity. Our game asks the player to knock out the enemies having toxic comments before they kill the player. How does it help?

Trains the subconscious mind to be against toxicity
Reports can be made through the system that do not get filtered by the existing Youtube algorithm
Helps us optimize our toxicity analysis model using data annnotation

How we built it

~~Breaking our heads over the jankiness of Unity for 24 hours straight~~

Learnt Unity on the fly
Tilesets were created using the free "Modern Interiors" texture pack.
Audio clips and BGM were taken from the existing games Enter the Gungeon, Katana ZERO, and Among Us.
We deployed an application backend server using Node.js . The backend server takes care of retrieval of YouTube comments (using the official API) and calculating toxicity score of the comments (using the Perspective ML model).

Challenges we ran into

Navigating Unity UI
Learning game dev concepts
Finding appropriate sprites, animations and audio
Coding in C# for the first time

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Completed the game with a decent level of polish despite none of us having done proper game dev or learnt unity before. Achieved most of the targets we set out to.