How to Make a Private Assassins Game

An assassins game, espcially one with a public online history must take great pains to protect the privacy of players. From a goal of maximizing fun, you want to maintain privacy so that players do not know everyone who is playing in the game, thus increasing the mystery and suspense. If players knew everyone else who was playing it would be easier to avoid them and stay on your guard only when around people you knew were playing.

Assassins game hosts also need to make sure that the names of the players are released unnecessarily onto the internet. Most players of assassins games would not like their name to show up on Google. Any good game host takes this concern of privacy for their players to the utmost level. Here is a list of small things you can do to make sure your privacy is maintained:

1. Never post real names of players on a public web site.
2. Never post email address of players on a public web site.
3. Remove mentions of real names of players from player submitted stories.
4. Make sure players don't use their real name as a secret alias.
5. Make your players aware of these privacy concerns as well, so they can help you maintain the privacy of others.

If you follow these steps, the privacy of your players will be well kept. It seems like there is a lot to keep track of though. Especially if your game grows to more than 100 players. When you have lots of players it's hard to maintain their privacy. It becomes tempting to use someones name in an email to everyone rather than fish out his specific email address. Also, it's hard to post results about a game while keeping the identity of players a secret. Sassins solves these problems of scale by always doing the right thing when it comes to privacy. When a player has not been eliminated their real name is kept a secret from the other players. Players can still track each other's actions by their secret aliases. When a player is eliminated they are unmasked but only to the players in the game. A person who is not logged in will never see the real names of the players, only their secret aliases.

The only items on the list above that you need to worry yourself with are, removing mentions of real names in player submitted stores, make sure aliases are not real names, and making your players aware of privacy concerns. However, these concerns do not come up frequently, and are lesser concerns compared to posting a players name and email address for the world to see.

You can always find the Sassins privacy policy whenever you have a question about how we handle your privacy.