Retro Yeti, a team of students from the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering program have created a video game, called 404Sight, which is based on the idea of Net neutrality.
According to The Verge , Net neutrality is a slightly twisted name for a set of rules governing which companies can push what traffic at what speed from which carrier.
404Sight is a parkour-style running game set in a surreal 3D pastel manifestation of cyberspace, where bandwidth is life and “fast lanes” are hidden green strips that boost user’s health and accelerate the pace.
The service provider in the game is intent on taking away the bandwidth with throttling drones that the player has to evade in order to stay online. But the player has a secret weapon — “ping” — which helps them find fast lanes and eventually save the Internet.
The game was released on April 16, 2015.
