I have some questions regarding Apple's rules...

[RoanHorse]

Okay, seriously. I do not intend to take a picture of the user without their consent.
The inclusion of the user's image makes sense within the game's context.
You are yourself. It's a game where you are 'decking' into your local government's infrastructure to accomplish a personal goal. What that goal is will be determined by the actions of the player, and alluded to occasionally by a cast of characters that address the user with a nickname chosen upon opening the application for the first time. Think of something along the lines of Facade, with hacking, and gameplay.
The crash, whether it be real or simulated, would be ludicrously obvious, going so far as to have the application 'bug out' visually before crashing/faking a crash.

[MrLeQuack]

this will never pass apple review

[Greyskull]

Originally Posted by psj3809

I can understand now a 'bit' better about what you want to do but i'm sure you couldnt purposely crash an app. If that happened to me i probably would think 'forget this then' and move onto the next app. Surely you can 'simulate' a fake crash.

A game in the 80's (Brian Bloodaxe) would pretend to reset the computer after it was loaded but it had a slight change in the text for the 'reset screen' so you wouldnt instantly think 'damn' and reset your computer and try again.

So i would do a 'pretend' reset but make it obvious its part of the game and dont make it too authentic or there'll be lots of people moaning to Apple about the app.

As for the photo its very well saying it wont go anywhere else but you hear so many nightmare stories of corrupt Android apps, granted this is Apple but it would make people paranoid. And anyway i'm certain Apple wouldnt let you do this. In everyone of my 600 apps i have on my ipod the games which have a 'picture' of the player are just cartoon/fake ones, none of them need to have the photo of the player.

A game back in the 80's (The Hacker) was great, not many instructions, you had to work out what to do. Something similar would be good but i wouldnt go so far to get photos of the user or purposely crash the app. 'Pretend' to crash the app and go to a standard homepage of an ipod/iphone.

I has the hacker...made a printout of some screens using a dot-matrix printer, and convinced a school-friend that I had hacked into the Defense Dept. or something of that nature.

Kid grew up to become a cop. Color me shocked. /sarcasm