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HAE Stack

In the far future year of 2025, society is dominated by a handful of global megacorporations that surveil everyone, everywhere, at all times. They know where you go, who you know, what you like, and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. But you need a job, and one of them is hiring.

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Jake Rabinowitz
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Jake Rabinowitz
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About the Game

CONTENT WARNING: This game contains realistic depictions of corporate software and employment that may be disturbing to some viewers.

HAE Stack is a work simulation puzzle game set in our current Surveillance Capitalist dystopia. Take on the role of [YOUR NAME], a newly hired Data Analytics Technical Associate at HAE Technologies Inc, one of the world's leading geolocation data brokers.

Sell ads, solve crimes, share home addresses, deduce social networks, expose cheating spouses, track down "suspicious individuals", and more!

Using HAE's proprietary operating system software (the "HAE Stack"), you have all the tools you need to perform your contractually mandated duties. 

Features

  • Explore our geolocation history database with HAE-EYE

  • Complete tasks in Tasky

  • Chat with your coworkers in HAE Teams

  • Level up your work performance with Employee Success Coach

  • Build your skills with our in-house courseware platform HAE-University

  • Ask questions to our proprietary AI chatbot HAE-GPT¹

¹ This is an in-game joke, the game does not use AI.

Real World Impact

HAE Stack was inspired by a variety of research and reporting about dubiously legal corporate and government surveillance in the real world. While this game's content is fictional, Surveillance Capitalism is real and a threat to the civil and privacy rights of everyone, everywhere.

When this game is for sale, 20% of all profits will go to charities and organizations that fight for civil, digital, and human rights, and to promoting human-made art. If you have a group that you recommend, please reach out and let me know.

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