Mailsweeper
A Minesweeper game with an email twist! 📧💣
Navigate your dangerous inbox carefully - some emails are legitimate, others are malicious. Click to open safe emails, right-click to flag suspicious ones. One wrong click and your system gets infected!
This game was made in a few days for the PIGSquad Summer Slow Jams August 2025. The theme was "Parody" and "Cheat Codes".
It was built in an open-source game engine: https://ebitengine.org/. Deployed on Itch using WebAssembly (Wasm) and HTML.
Features:
- Classic Minesweeper gameplay with email theming
- Multiple difficulty levels (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert)
- Time-based scoring system
- "Quake-style" cheat code terminal, open with "~"
How to Play:
- Left-click to open emails
- Right-click to flag suspicious emails
- Numbers show how many dangerous emails are adjacent
- Clear your inbox without opening any malicious emails!
Can you achieve Inbox Zero without getting hacked?
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Love the detail on the emails! Are those fully random addresses and subjects, or are some more likely to be suspicious based on the text?
Thank you! The subjects are pulled from a randomizer of pre-written subject strings, and the email addresses are a combination of randomizing firstname + lastname @ company .com. I didn’t want to give too many hints with the sender address, so they are purely random in this case rather than hinting at a bad or good email.