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Commissioned by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, the game creates awareness among young people about the pitfalls of corruption. 

The brainchild of 20 SDM students from the Diploma in Digital Game Art Design and the Diploma in Game Development & Technology, the game project started in Nov last year and was launched earlier this month. Players take on the persona of a restauranteur trying to keep the business afloat, while juggling the restaurant’s balance sheets. The gameplay involves shady characters looking to grease palms. Depending on players' selection, different ending scenes are triggered. These endings are consequences of players' choices. 

With guidance from SDM lecturers, the students oversaw all aspects of the game development, from the creation of the game assets, user interface and graphic designs, to programming.

Says lecturer Ernest Quek: “To conceptualise a fun yet educational game on corruption was a difficult task, as there were few games that have tackled the topic successfully. We encountered some challenges here and there, such as optimising the game to run on both mobile and PC browsers, but the team pulled it off.”