#hacking game

[boringkate]

Steam FINALLY approved my command prompt style text based hacking game! You can buy it now for only one dollar! You don't even have to play it! You can just buy it for a dollar and then leave a review that talks about how cute I am!

You can also play it for free online in a browser over at boringkate dot com. It's plausible that I might add more content down the road and that maybe the steam version will get things that the online version doesn't have, but I'm absolutely not promising that. Right now they're almost identical. The steam version just lets you play it offline and has a few extra fixes applied. Also it's super easy to cheat in the steam version, BUT I'LL LEAVE IT UP TO YOU TO FIGURE OUT HOW.

Elite Hacker: Retro Hacking Evolution: Grand Theft Transsexual Matrix Terminator SEO Words on Steam

Do you ever lay awake at night thinking about Zero Cool wearing the dress?

[theluigiguy-vids]

Casually hacking computer systems (in Uplink) when I suddenly find the pee files

EDIT: I posted this on the wrong blog but whateer

[boringkate]

I've been working on this totally text based / browser based hacking game for a solid week now and it's still far from done, but I think you should try it out anyways and give me feedback because feedback is what makes girls cum.

[manstoolit]

Games That Hack Your PC Are Probably

one of the most unique genres in gaming, but I can’t deny that I actually feel like I’m hacked if I don’t uninstall the game or go back to a restore point before playing. KinitoPET falls under that category. They weren’t the first to do it, but the way the game devs did it really felt like there was something inside my PC I couldn’t control.

If you want to see this unique experience first hand

click here to watch my full KinitoPET gameplay!

If you’ve played it already, is there anything I’m missing? And also, what do you think of the game?

[judocruisegaming]

HACKING FACEBOOK!!! | Connect | Sick Indie Hacking Video Game | 1 |

[futureproofgames]

We’ve updated Exploit: Zero Day to 0.34.0. This is a small update: account pages now also list clusters that the player has created. If you don’t yet have full access to the game, sign up to the mailing list before the end of the month to get a key!

We just pushed a small update to Exploit: Zero Day--now you can see any public clusters a user has created on their account page. Also, the October newsletter is going to be coming out in just a day or two, so if you want access to the free story and puzzles in the game, sign up at the link 👆.

[offgridthegame]

Sprint Round Up - 17.05.18 - A different approach

Hello loyal devlog readers! 

We’be been blogging about for awhile now, and think it’s time we change up the the way we’re approaching it.  There’s SO much going into each development sprint that we want to make it easier to understand what we’ve been doing.  

From here on out, at the end of each sprint, we’ll be putting together a roundup of the development achievements each sprint, and then breaking the detail out into individual posts every week or two.  It means you'll get more regular updates from us, and they should be a bit more bitesized and cover a specific theme or area across the last month of development.

Keep an eye out for Steve’s next post on save systems - coming soon!

Now for the sprint round up:

Upgrading the App System

Evaluated current app system and how to get it to fit our requirements & designs

We’ll need to change things a bit so the apps are fully controlled by the Lua scripts

Bug fixes and tweaks after PAX & GDC

Screen fade to black moved to UI, removed all old fade systems/code

…so fades now work reliably on player death, level restart/completion etc.

Pause menu scroll bar was misaligned to edge of screen instead of edge of menu

Fixed guards being stuck in wrong animation / AI states after taking breaks

Taking breaks restores motivation correctly (for NPC’s not just us developers)

 Added interrupts in animation system to break out of animation before it completes. (Now the NPC’s don'ät need to finish their coffee before they can start chasing the player)

Fixed guards sometimes not chasing player

…see above. They *tried* but it’s hard to run while also drinking coffee

The AI system for selecting target locations still had some old code that limited target locations within +/- 2 meters vertical from NPC position. When player disappeared out of sight in stairs etc. that stopped the AI from following.

Fixed our build script’s “build all” option only building Windows.

…also made it ask for all the options needed *before* making the builds, not in between each platform. Otherwise the person making the builds can’t go for a coffee while waiting the build to complete ;P

Data view textures and colours conforming (props sucha as paper sheet and some devices had wrong data colour)

Fixing the formating in the text for some devices (Extra tabs in hand dryer description strings)

Sped up first hacking interaction to make gameplay and feedback more immediate (bathroom thermostat start temp to 20C) apostle/basement conversation after server objective not set to secure

Fixing save issues

NFC data now doesnt disappear on load

Saving and loading is now handled correctly

Save data no longer diverges when play is continued.

Fixing Doors!

Set up scannable interaction prefabs properly,

Added frosted strip accross all glass door models for better visibility,

Scanner door prefab not tagged properly (doesn’t work for the Help overlay)

Prop work

Fixed missing files in levelkit source .blend

Updated the vending machine prop to give more detail

Character Rigging

Worked on bringing new characters into the game

Made a start on rigging and set up of some of the older characters with new Colour LUT setup and blend shapes for their body shape

Thanks for reading! 

The Off Grid team

If you haven’t already - be sure to wishlist Off Grid on Steam - each wishlist makes a big difference to us, and we really appreciate your support!

[offgridthegame]

PAXEast 2018!

As part of our month of travels, Pontus, Rich, and Steve all made it out to PAXEast to show off the game.  It’s a really friendly and inviting show and we’d definitely recoomend it.  We were lucky enough to get to show the game as part of a little collective of friends all put together by Kinifi Games, called Figs & Co, run by husband and wife dev team Hollie and Chris Figueroa, those two are a total powerhouse, and we are so proud to call them friends!!

A nice thing about PAX is the airport is a 10 minute ride from the conference centre and the free airport shuttle drops you pretty much at the doorstep of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC).

Hello Boston!

^ The setup!

Build up was pretty fun, and Hollie who does all the heavy lifting for organising the stand had done some stellar work to get everything together, not least because UPS lost our shipping pallets with all the banners, computers and gear 24hrs before the show.  She is some kind of supernatural force because she managed to source everything we needed in that time and setup went ahead on schedule. 

Last minute printing inside the conference centre was a major win.  Rich had worked pretty tirelessly in the build up to the show to get a new trailer ready, setup the ‘Coming Soon’ page on steam and create a fancy QR code poster to take you to it, but not had time to print out handouts for wishlisting. It was relief to add this cherry on top with such convenience!

^ The team all land!

Off the plane (and after Rich and Steve made the mistake of trying to use the wheelchair-not-so-accessible subway system), we all settled into a much deserved team dinner.

There were omens that PAXEast was going to be good even before the showfloor opened: our AirBnB had a foam recreation of the Master Sword from Zelda just hanging out in the corner (see above!).

^The team at our stand (Rich, Pontus & Steve), all set up and ready to go!

Demoing the game itself was great as always for meeting players and getting feedback. We had a lot of really enthusiastic visitors to our stand and a couple completed the demo too.

The biggest lesson we learned was that the game really does benefit from the creation of an introspective space, and in our case, a chair to sit at.  Our second day dragged and didn’t get as much footfall as our first, but the moment we got a chair in for people to sit and play on, was the moment the quality of the experience for our players visibly increased. Off Grid requires time to understand and enjoy due to its complexity, and something as small as a chair really does help with that.

Lots of friends were there, Ana and her VR retro game ‘Pixel Ripped’ above.

As well as our good friends and fellow London Indies, Mike and Angus, who are making the wonderful Pool Panic with Adult Swim games.

We had some stonking Boston breakfasts and fot a fairly hefty dose of Americana in at the same time. This one was in a tiny old rail carriage.

There was some of the funniest cosplay we’ve ever seen!  Not sure if this guy was demoing a game or just making a statement.

We finished up PAX with a celebratory dinner at the Legal Seafood restaurant harbourside (in the Boston Harbour, where the historic Boston Tea Party took place no less).

We also had a day to take in some sights, which basically involved walking the Freedom Trail (yes, inspired by Steve and Pontus having played Fallout 4 rather than a keen interest U.S. Revolutionary War historical sites). This is not least given away by the fact that we ended our historic tour with the two most important sites to us:

The bar from the hit TV sitcom ‘Cheers.’

And the bench from Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams’ psychologist character finally makes some progress with Matt Damon’s troubled mathmatical genius.

PAXEast, thank you so much, you were fun! 10/10, we would def come back!  :) p.s. If you read our previous post about GDC and no kids allowed - no worries here cause PAX East is totally kid friendly!  Hollie and Chris even had their little one, Sofia, working the booth with them over the two days! ;P