TouchTone is a 2015
puzzle video game for
iOS devices by
Mikengreg, a two-person indie game development team made up of Mike Boxleiter and
Greg Wohlwend. The player monitors phone calls as part of a government surveillance program to find public threats. The player unlocks chains of emails by completing a series of puzzles wherein a beam is reflected around a room to a set destination.
TouchTone core concept grew from a two-day
game jam immediately following their 2012 release of
Gasketball, but only found its
hacker theme following the mid-2013
Edward Snowden global surveillance disclosures. The tone of
TouchTone story grew from satirical to serious over the course of the game's development.