CyberShield: Office Defender

SYSTEM STATUS: CRITICAL

UNAUTHORIZED INBOUND CONNECTION DETECTED...

LOADING DEFENSE PROTOCOL: CyberShield.exe

🎯 Project Overview

Title: CyberShield: Office Defender
Genre: Serious Game / Interface Simulation / Puzzle
Platform: PC (Desktop) -- Developed in Godot 4.6
Target Audience: Corporate employees and students (cybersecurity awareness)
Elevator Pitch: A desktop simulation game where you must identify phishing emails before your network gets compromised.
Session Duration: 10--15 minutes

CyberShield: Office Defender is designed as an educational serious game focused on improving phishing detection skills in a realistic office-like environment.

🎮 Core Gameplay Mechanics

Main Gameplay Loop

1. Reception: A new email appears on screen (with a notification sound "Ping").
2. Analysis: The player reads the sender, subject, and body of the message.
3. Decision: The player selects one of three actions:
   • ✅ Validate -- Mark the email as safe.
   • ⚠️ Report to IT -- Identify it as phishing.
   • 🗑️ Delete -- Discard harmless spam.
4. Feedback: A popup window informs the player whether they were correct and explains why.

📊 Scoring System

Network Health

• Starts with 3 Health Points (displayed as a progress bar).
• Each mistake reduces 1 health point.
• If health reaches 0 → Game Over (Ransomware activated).

Points

• Correct answer: +10 points
• Correct phishing report: +20 points
• Incorrect action: -5 points

🏆 Win & Lose Conditions

• Victory: Successfully process 15 emails without losing all network health.
• Defeat: Network health reaches 0.

📈 Level Design & Difficulty Progression

The game features 15--20 emails with increasing difficulty:

Email Range Attack Type Clues

1--10 Basic Phishing Obvious spelling mistakes, absurd domains

11--20 Social Engineering Urgency/fear tactics, alarmist language

21--30 Legitimate Emails Randomly mixed in to increase difficulty

🎨 Visual & Audio Design

Visual Style

• Style: Minimalist "Modern Office"
• Color Palette:
  • Background: #E0E0E0
  • Panel: #FFFFFF
  • Success: #4CAF50
  • Error: #F44336
  • Alert: #FF9800
• Typography: Roboto / Open Sans

Audio Design

• Email notification: Soft "Ping"
• Correct answer: Short positive "Ding"
• Error: System alert sound
• Game Over: Critical system failure sound

👥 Development Team

• Adrian
• Luis
• Sergio
• Coraima

🎯 MVP Scope (Minimum Viable Product)

Core Features ✅

• Sequential email display
• Three functional action buttons with correct logic
• Visible scoring system
• Health bar that decreases on mistakes
• Game Over screen
• 15--20 varied emails
• Explanatory feedback after each decision
• Email notification sound

Nice-to-Have Features ⭐

• Start screen with instructions
• Basic transition animations
• Background ambient music
• Final statistics screen (% accuracy)

Out of Scope ❌

• Save/Load system
• Selectable multiple levels
• Interactive attachments
• Multiplayer
• Mobile support

🔧 Development Tools

• Engine: Godot 4.6\
• Language: GDScript\
• Version Control: Git + GitHub\
• Audio Resources: Freesound.org\
• Fonts: Google Fonts (Open Sans, Roboto)

📌 Educational Purpose

CyberShield: Office Defender aims to improve cybersecurity awareness by simulating real-world phishing scenarios in a controlled and interactive environment. The game encourages critical thinking and safe email-handling practices in professional contexts.