I’m just on a break from working on a game for a PhD student’s research project in psychology.

It’s a sort of work simulator where you play as an internet fact checker for an old county music artist looking to make a comeback. The goal is to stop him from posting things online that are misinformed or blatantly wrong.

The whole thing takes place in a sort of remote login desktop running an operating system called Howdy OS, and you interact with the artist through an instant message interface, so naturally I’ve been having the most fun designing the UI and the interactions.

The messages are constructed similarly to Obra Dinn - you collect evidence and populate a template, then send it. The artist responds depending on what’s right or wrong about what you send. It’s not AI or anything, it’s just very very written 😅

The purpose of it is to teach criticality to people, try and help them understand how to evaluate and verify information online instead of just taking things for granted. We completed the first pre alpha testing before Christmas and it’s been received well so far! Excited to get into the next steps now.

Congratulations! You’ll both do incredible!

Check, mate!

You did a great job on this though, OP. It’s difficult to explain to non-nationals with no idea of the history, so this is very helpful

Exactly - that’s it’s proper name and how it’s distinguished from Northern Ireland since they share the land mass of Ireland

Just that - shorthand for Great Britain. Easier to use when you don’t think it’s so great, like if you live in the Republic of Ireland!