WHERE TEAMS AREFORGED
Immerse yourself in a dystopian future where your mission is to lead your rebel team in a tactical infiltration operation. To succeed, you must display superior team capability using digital technology for optimal & efficient awareness, navigation, communication, hacking and adaptability.
CINQ GAME OVERVIEW
Discover the range of CinQ game modes, familiarize yourself with the game’s background story, understand your team’s mission, select your Black Swan team role and explore our plans for exciting future content – new maps, missions, coaching & tournaments.
Just download CinQ, join up with your team, and start your leadership and teamwork training.
CINQ OBJECTIVE – THE BLACK SWAN MISSION
An hour ago The Circle Inc. launched “the red pill”, a drug for corporate “well-being” health programs, that will destroy the capability of organizations and governments to innovate.
An hour ago The Circle Inc. launched “the red pill”, a drug for corporate “well-being” health programs, that will destroy the capability of organizations and governments to innovate.
Black Swan, an underground organization, aims to stop them in their tracks before the pill hits the market.
As part of a plan to develop an antidote for The Circle’s “red pill”, Black Swan has tasked your team with stealing the drug’s secret formula from The Circle Inc.’s hidden underground laboratory.
CinQ’s challenge is for one member of the team (the planner) to guide the other 4 members through the building’s security systems, avoiding electronic surveillance obstacles, guards, drones and patrols to get into the vault, secure the formula and escape.
Black Swan intel has lead to the discovery of a secret lab in the basement of The Circle Inc.’s research headquarters.
Black Swan recon teams have gathered intel: the team’s planner will get the building’s blueprints, information about security features and how to gain access to the CCTV network from within the Black Swan van. They will use all this information to collaborate with the team to help them retrieve the formula unnoticed.
The mobile command unit is operated by the Planner, giving them access to CCTV footage, a live map of each of the floors of the building and the location of all the team members.
At any time, team members can send the Planner document via uplink for analysis and decoding.
THE BLACK SWAN TEAM
THE PLANNER
Having worked his way up the ranks in crisis management in the Circle organization he became disillusioned and fed up with the internal politics and infighting. By accident he discovered internal memos outlining the manufacturing of the red pill to destroy the innovation capabilities of competitive companies. He quietly left The Circle on medical leave and joined up with a band of corporate rebels to found Black Swan – an organization dedicated to creative thinking and freedom to innovate.
Over the years his identity and background have been kept secret allowing him the freedom to move in and out of The Circle and opposition government agencies.
His key skills in managing crises have made him a superb planner and coordinator though at times he suffers from tunnel vision and not able to see the big picture. But his dedication and motivation make up for this weakness especially when under pressure and his ability to recruit new players for black swan have made him legendary.
THE HACKER
Trained as a top mathematician, chess expert and an cyber-security developer, he became very interested in Hacktivism and Hackers.
After being recruited by the planner, he started working for The Circle IT Department as a Black Swan agent. His major objective was to infiltrate their security system and discover their vulnerabilities. He discovered the building plans for a secret laboratory that held the formula for the red pill.
Having managed to communicate this information to Black Swan operatives he was captured by The Circle security team and tortured. He used his chess skill to outplay the circle security agents and feigned submissiveness and agreed to act as a double agent thus still pretending to work for black swan but passing their secrets back to the Circle.
On release he informed the Black swan team of his new status and thus became a triple agent passing dud information back to the Circle and incapacitating their counter Black Swan strategy.
THE TECHNICIAN
A self-taught world class engineer he worked for international aid agencies in the Third World. His career progressed and took him all over the world working on behalf of “Habitat for Humanity” creating a reputation for best in class projects that resulted in major benefits and value for local inhabitants and partner organizations.
He came into direct confrontation with The Circle as they expanded their manufacturing sites across developing countries to take advantage of cheaper labor, natural resources and lack of regulation. Again, and again the Circle lawyers defeated any attempts to thwart their expansion into developed countries and used black book tricks such as corruption, threats and intimidation to ensure their success.
The final straw was when polluted water near a school was responsible for killing children and their families. He was then recruited by the planner, joined Black Swan and dedicated his skills to ensure the end of The Circle.
THE ACROBAT
Groomed from an early age by her swiss parents, a banker and a lawyer, to be a doctor she rebelled at university and began to lead a double life as a circus acrobat. Having studied ballet at an early age, circus training became a natural fit for her fearlessness and need for adventure.
The hospital she worked for was taken over by the Circle Health Group and she became slowly aware that their strategy was to ensure control over large population groups through a pharmaceutical program of drugs ensuring obedience and submission to the will of The Circle. Her objections were noted by the Circle security team and when her circus activities were discovered she was sacked for behaviour unbecoming of a senior medical practitioner.
Through a contact at the circus she met the planner, joined black swan and has become a dedicated team member using her specialist acrobat skills to penetrate difficult zones in and around buildings thus bypassing high level security systems.
THE ENGINEER
Brought up in the ghetto she intimately understood gangland culture and learnt very early how to read people and situations to ensure her survival. At school she was quickly drawn into a world of electronics and math that excited her and created a thirst to learn.
She then skillfully played two sides off at the same time. She succeeded in surviving the gang culture on her ghetto ensuring that no-one knew of her interests and ambition to become an engineer and that no-one at the night school she went to knew of her gang affiliations. Eventually qualifying she left the ghetto working freelance for major corporations and The Circle.
Following the rules of the game and doing the right thing were never her philosophy and she soon discovered that the corporate ambition of The Circle was to ensure obedience and subservience at all levels of society. She sought out resistance organizations to end the power of the Circle and after meeting the planner, eventually became associated with Black Swan, working for them on a freelance basis.
THE COACHING MODULES
Measure Your Performance with In-Built Coaching
CinQ is designed to help you better understand and increase your skills as an individual and as a team.
The in-built coaching module is designed to help you identify the individual and team skills you need to develop and measure your performance from game to game.
360° Individual Performance
You will be given the opportunity to identify which skill group each member of the team excelled at. This will help you and others identify which skills you are making best use of, and help you share your experience with others to help each-other progress further and faster.
360° Team Performance
Filling in your own Team Scorecard at each play-through of CinQ will allow you to measure your team’s performance, and identify key skill gaps that you will need to address as a team.
COMING SOON
The Current Mission Gets 50% Bigger with the New Sewer Escape Sequence
The Circle Security team have intelligence that the Black Swan team will try to retrieve the secret formula for the Red Pill from the underground laboratory. If the research mainframe is tampered with in any way then The Circle security systems will go on high alert and the entire building will go on lock-down and all exits to and from the building will be closed off.
The Hacker has learnt of these new security protocols and the Planner has worked out a new escape route from the laboratory via the sewers to the river where a fast boat will be waiting for them. But as the Planner put it, they “will be flying blind” in the sewer because of the limited intel and so they will have to be ultra-careful to avoid the obstacles Circle Security may have placed there.
Discover a brand new map complete with:
- A thrilling chase sequence that will test your team’s nerves.
- New artificial intelligence mechanics.
- A brand new environment that will nearly double the size of the game.
- New exciting team challenges.
TRACK YOUR LEARNING SCORE, EARN YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS & CLIMB THE LEADERBOARDS
TRAINING / COMPETITION
Individual Learning Score
On your individual KPI Dashboard, you will be able to see a graph of your learning score performance each time you train.
This is important because if allows you to measure the growth of your skill-sets in problem-solving, creative thinking and teamwork.
You will be able to benchmark your scores with friends and colleagues.
TRAINING / COMPETITION
Teamwork Achievements
Your abilities and skills are tested against each challenge and obstacle and depending on how quickly you solve them, you will be rewarded with an achievement. The range of achievements recognize and reward the team’s collective IQ.
Consequently the dynamic nature of the challenges means that each run-through of the game is different and allows the team to test itself again and again and measure itself by the level of achievements realized (Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond).
COMPETITION ONLY
Team Leaderboards
Working in teams can be fun, exciting and adventurous. Creating teams that test their skills and abilities in the CinQ video game is part of the process of developing a learning culture within an enterprise.
The team leaderboards extend this by allowing teams to challenge each-other and measure their effectiveness as leaders and teams in a competitive environment. Giving awards and certificates to recognize outstanding leadership and teamwork performance is a good way to incentivize this learning process.
TEAMWORK IS THE ENGINE OF GROWTH
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6 Future New Black Swan Missions to Train Leaders & Teams
Each new testing ground will include innovative challenges, state of the art environments, an exciting scenario and dynamic obstacles.
CURRENT MISSION LOCATION
THE CIRCLE HEADQUARTERS
FUTURE MISSION LOCATIONS
WHY INVESTING IN YOUR LEADERS MATTERS
“ Today, many organizations need a completely different kind of leader: a “digital leader ” who can build teams, keep people connected and engaged, and drive a culture of innovation, risk tolerance, and continuous improvement. ”
Deloitte, 2017