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Title: ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ
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Release Date: 22 Sep, 2016
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29 September
First off: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!
It is officially one week since launch. I am the only dev on this project and I am so amazingly overworked at the moment. &3
The servers have been stable for several days, and players are hacking in so many ways!
They are spoofing, scripting, deceiving, lying, and fighting their way to victory!
MUDWAR-1 has already come and gone, with new intrigue developing every day--
However, I can't keep up with players right now! Which means I can't make new features and fix balance issues!
Here are ways YOU can help with my workload:
-& Help new players wherever you can! In game, steam forums, game forums, discord, wherever there are people!
-& !!DO NOT BREAK THE SANDBOX!! &--
- there are so many ways to hack this game INSIDE the game, please help me by not doing it 'outside the game'
- do not create custom clients
- do not write scripts that crash other player's clients
- do not write scripts that invalidate the &trustedness& of scripts.trust scripts
- contact
if you see any of these issues
MANY of these things will be available and approved in the future. I just can't handle the workload right now.
-& !!DO NOT CREATE MORE WORK FOR ME!! &-
Violators will be removed temporarily or permanently.
Please contact
if you have any questions about this.
Happy Hacking!
Sean
NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BUYERS
I am a solo dev on this project. There WERE many server load issues at launch that have now been solved. T this game is INCREDIBLY complex to maintain, and there will be many game-wide issues in the future. These issues will most likely be in-game player discovered exploits. THIS IS PART OF THE GAME!
As long as there are servers running the game, there will be balance patches and fixes. Read AS MUCH AS YOU CAN about the game and player's experiences before making your purchase decision.
Excited to have you in game.
Happy Hacking!
Best,
Sean
About This Game
h a c k m u d is a cyberpunk themed text-based hacking simulator for intel-compatible personal home computers. Get lost in a deep and complex world full of challenging puzzles as you engage in a rich narrative riddled with intrigue and deception.
Learn who you can trust as you make friends and enemies exploring the depths of abandoned future internet cyber-structure
Prove your worth to cyber-society by navigating the trials laid out for you by the Multi-User Domain’s governing super-intelligence, ‘The Trust’
‘Patch into the hardline’ to access other users’ protected systems and steal their digital goods
Demonstrate hunger for power, flexibility of thought, and keen strategy to convince The Trust of your value and escape the virtual L.A.N.
Let the text-based interface transport you back to the early internet-era when computing was full of discovery
Create and destroy digital empires while exploring the constantly evolving user-created multiplayer world
Use real-world hacking skills (social engineering, cracking, research, scripting...) for power and influence in the M.U.D. at large
A deep, nuanced and engaging storyline full of discovery that will keep you guessing
Encourages deep exploration and testing the limits of the system through rich side-content
An intuitive retro-futuristic text-based computing interface that escalates to advanced with glitches, hidden commands, and arcane syntax
90s film style ‘hacking mode,’ for when you need to get some ‘serious’ hacking done
An original electronic soundtrack which will chill you out while exploring or amp you up when the pressure’s on
Persistent and constantly-evolving game universe powered by an almost endless stream of user created tools, puzzles, traps and much more
A fluid and organic class system determined by the currently loaded upgrades on your system
A fully scriptable in-game world with a global player-based economy of code and in-game botting
Regular balance patches to keep the game fun and engaging for players of all styles and at all levels of experience
System Requirements
SteamOS + Linux
Minimum:
OS: Windows 7
Memory: 2 GB RAM
DirectX: Version 10
Minimum:
OS: Mac OS 10.9
Memory: 2 GB RAM
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Memory: 2 GB RAM
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Scam... makes itself seem like a fun, exciting MMO game during the 2-Hour tutorial(probably only that length because the dev knew people would want a refund once they realized it was nothing like the tutorial.)... when really, it's a boring piece of ???? that gives you no way to even know what you're doing once you enter online mode. DO-NOT-BUY
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This is not a game for dumb people. Seriously, if you are dumb, don't get it. However, if you consider yourself smart, there is a L33T price for which you can find out how smart you really are.So first of, this is a legit hacking simulator, with typing stuff like scripts, parameters and values, guessing password and all other sorts of things you see in the movies, so... not very easy. The SP part is sort of a tutorial to get you aquainted with the game mechanics, there is a bunch of puzzles here for the smart people and some easter eggs, for the smart people who like to show how smart they are by digging into stuff... with a keyboard. Once you prove to the game, that you are not a moron, you are let into the MUD part. For those who are young, and perhaps not part of the smart people, it's a text based MMO.Here, there are other people who will prove to you that you were wrong in thinking that you are smart, because you are not, everyone is smarter than you, everyone is a master at Java Script, and everyone will steal from you, humiliate you and make fun of you just to make sure that you got the message &you are not smart... like at all&.You think I am making this a funny review? Huh? You think you are smart? Well, there are guys here who programed a casino into the game, where you can gamble, and someone even made a social network within the game, just like facebook, only better, because no advertising or kids pictures. And all those people will be helpful and tell you how to play the game (cause obviously you will not have a clue) and give you free scripts so you can hack NPCs and get filthy rich. And then, they will steal from you, make your virtual character admit on public chat that you like One Direction and still live with your mom, in the basement with all the anime cartoons.Welcome to the L33T hacking simulator, that is more about hacking thatn any other hacking game and probably the best MMO ever created. Git gud or git rekt tryin.Seriously though, just get the game, it's a work of genius and worth trying, even if you are not part of the smart people.I now know I am not.
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If you likes games like
then you should definitely try this game.It begins with a 3-4 hour single player tutorial which is really well done and teaches you the ropes in a clear way - while still being entertaining - before throwing you into an imposing, and initially impenetrable, multiplayer version.Without guidance this monster of a game would be impossible to comprehend, especially for someone like me whose only experience with hacking is watching WarGames with Mathew Broderick when I was a kid. Fortunately, ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ has an amazing community.Like... seriously.One of the most 'famous' (i.e 'rich and clever') players just gave an hour long lesson for newcomers like me on how to start writing code. He does this several times a week. There are scripts available for free that will provide you with 'locs' (I think I got that right) to break into if you can’t figure out how to do it yet yourself. If you have a question you can just type it into chat and you will get a response within seconds... although it's always more likely to be a hint than a full solution because the community 'get it' and don't want to spoil the joy of discovery for you.It’s important to note that I experienced all of this in the first two days after launch when the servers were pretty much on fire. However, while it is certainly frustrating to play with high amounts of lag (those negative reviews aren’t making that stuff up) it was actually kinda cool to see the (sole) developer in chat asking the same people that I was asking “what colours do c003 locks use?” to help him test out a new build of the game to fix it all.I loved Uplink and Hacknet, but they were short, single player experiences. This is a game for people that are in it for the long haul. It will never have masses of players, but it already has a strong and dedicated fan base, and It is genuinely exciting to think about what this game will look like a year from now.So, yeah… it’s good! Play it… maybe…. I’ll be playing it! You might not like it… but you might love it! (I can’t tell because we haven’t met.)P.S. I downloaded Notepad++ to make a script that says “Hi, friend!” which I feel is proof that this game can teach you how to program irl.P.P.S. I know that this review has gone on too long, but I’m not sure how to end it.kernel.hardline{dc:true}
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I don't usually review games that I play. I also don't usually play multiplayer games. Just not my style. But ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ is different. It pushes all the right buttons for me.This game is amazing. At first, ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ might seem simple. There are a decent sized number of puzzles built into the game, enough to keep people busy for a while (and much more to come on that front), but what makes it special to me is the interaction with other players. We can write our own puzzles, for others to solve. And that is just the beginning. We can write games within the game. Plan and execute heists on rivals. Defend against determined attackers. And so on. If something is missing, someone with the scripting chops can write it. We needed documentation, and rather than setting up a wiki, I wrote an in-game man-page viewer. We wanted persistent notifications, so someone wrote an in-game &email& client. There are competing chat clients, each tailored to their creator's particular mindset, and we welcome more from new creators. We even have two interpreted languages written in the game, a LISP and a high-level JS-based assembly language (yes, those words all just occurred in the same sentence. I know). Why? Because we could.And that, to me, is where the most fun is. The scripting. And that is why the core simplicity is so useful. We have the basic building blocks to do what we need to do. But we get to write the rest, to combine those blocks in new and interesting ways. And the excellent thing is, everyone thinks differently, so what seems like an obvious need to one person is something someone else wouldn't have ever thought of, but can still benefit from once it gets written. If you enjoy writing scripts, you will love this game.But what if you don't? Or what if you are new to programming, or never even tried? No problem. You can do virtually everything without scripting, and there are several friendly veterans who are always willing to help people out. There is plenty of content now to keep things interesting, and more is being added -- by players and the dev -- over time. And if you wish there was a script that scratched a particular itch, just ask. Maybe one of us vets will write it for you. Or if you'd prefer, we'll teach you how to write it. As ways to learn JavaScript go, I can't think of any way more fun than this!
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Like Hacknet, only much more abstract, much more difficult, much more buggy. The game requires you to think outside of its own meta, and the tutorial only holds your hand insofar as to prepare you for the madness that is the multiplayer portion of the game. While there are server issues abound, such is the way of the multiplayer. Shoutout to the lone dev who had the drive to make this game. Mad props :-)
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--Review is not about server stability--------------TL;DR AT BOTTOM------------I had bought this game with an idea it would be similar to most other hacking sims, more along the lines of Hacker Experience. While this one took me by a slight surprise with it being more about coding than the others, which is fine.I originally was really enjoying this game while in the tutorial, which really is a mini-singleplayer campaign. It was only after this ended that I started seeing the flaws in my opinion that the game had.After the tutorial is over you get thrown out into the multiplayer, no idea what to do but if you have had my luck your chat will probably be getting spammed (we'll get to that in a bit)slight how to start playing spoilers ahead- - - So eventually you'll realize that the beginner thing to do is to scavenge inactive ai account and take their money, which sounds alright however it gets repetitive real fast. You type a command &scripts.fullsec& and it brings a huge list of servers/locations up. It's a list of both NPC, and player servers with no way to tell which is which, which doesnt sound that bad but it starts bringing on the repetitiveness really early going down a huge list til you get to a NPC server. Now remember the spam in chat I mentioned? If you connect someones server they can run scripts. fullsec scripts can't do anything bad, but they can make you spam in the chat, spam players directly, and the sort. When I was in the chat it was hell, constant spams of ascii art, people clicking on spam servers, people namespoofing, namespoofing system messages, and one other thing, providing fake servers.If you type &scripts.fullsec& it'll do what I mentioned above, show you the list of servers. However, if you type &script.fullsec& that can instantly take you to someones server and take your money you got from that monotonous finding npc servers and hacking them over and over.
I never went to them thankfully so I dont exactly know the extent of what they do. And it's not just script.fullsec. Every command in the game starts with word.word, and as far as I can tell a player server can be any combination that isn't taken. This includes chatting, shutting off the game, checking your system info, and anything. If someone decides to grab that server, a simple typo will mess you up. While not a big deal, I found it silly the way that works with checking my account balance or even viewing my system info, or turning off the game, is the same command scheme for joining what is possibly a dangerous server.Now if that wasn't bad enough, the game also has an auto complete, where you type part of a word and it enters it. You quickly learn how useful this is in the tutorial when they give you a long server name and you just need to type a couple letters and hit tab. However, once in multiplayer it goes to hell as well, any time a player puts for instance, &script.fullsec& it will show up on your autocomplete list. And there is no way to get it off, or block them from coming. So what you are taught to be a great thing, is now, a timebomb. All this really just screws over anyone with a simple spelling mistake once, and a player for being new and not realizing this, a LOT more than it should.So in the end I ended up having to leave chat with all the spam and autocomplete words, and was essentially forced out of communicating with anyone due to scripts people made, while some other people just try to find an NPC or do something of the sort with others name spoofing system messages. That didn't get rid of the autocomplete though I'm stuck with that forever, so it seemed the only proper choice there was to leave the chat as soon as you get out of the tutorial.My last negative point is the text box itself, is horrible. I'm not sure if it was to go with the theme of a terminal, or if it was just done poorly, but in a game about typing stuff, it helps a ton to have a good area to type in, which this does not. Clicking stuff can be a minor annoyance, you get a notepad but can only copy one line at a time, theres a chat box but chat still comes up where you put all your code in and floods it with no way to change it. And its missing some basic hotkeys, most noticeable selecting a group of letters/words with highlighting them and deleting them, as well as ctrl+A or select all for windows.With all that said I do have two positive points about the gameA. the tutorial, without spoiling anything it had a cheesy/slightly cringy story but it grew on me and I did like the stuff I was doing there, it had a good pace and was really fun and enjoyableand B. Along with the spam servers, npcs, and whatever else you may find, there is ones that players have made, where its a script that does certain things for you for a fee.TL;DR / Summary1. The tutorial was great, it was more like a mini-singleplayer campaign and provides 1-2 hours of entertainment.2. You seemingly can just code some basic javascript stuff which may be enjoyable3. The box where you write EVERYTHING in , is one of the worst I see in a game.4. a lot of beginner traps and the like5. chat spam is through the room do to javascript spam scripts.6. really monotonous gameplay. (even compared to other hacking games)
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This game made me start learning JS. I think it's awesome.TRUST NO ONE. YOU ARE NEVER SAFE.
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I would wait a few month until they get everything fixed and working again.First:Server is constantly down it is not even funny. Can not even play it for more then 30min a time before getting “The Multi User Domain is temporarily unavailable” error.Second:After a server shutdown from the company my game no longer shows my chats or my scratch history. Now I can no longer continue with my single player leaving me trying to figure out how to completely restart and start over. Third:I can understand why they thought the blurry type would add the the experience - however as time goes by it becomes more of a hindrance. I am not talking type size - its the blurry scan lines that is a major strain to the eyes. I can not speak for everyone but man - it becomes a total distraction that is taking away from the experience.
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10 CLS20 PRINT &HELLO SENTIENTS&30 PRINT &I'm here to tell you the world as you know it&40 PRINT &Will end unless to deposit to my account :10bux:.&50 PRINT &... or I will erase you...&60 CLS
&You are being erased now...&70 PRINT &Finally, on line 80, I'll use END.&80 END
&And return to PRINT&90 PRINT &JOIN GOONCORP&
Staring at a text console has never been so fun.
Okay. So... Okay.Caveat Emptor. The dev has been real clear about what you're getting here. The game is in development still and the lion's share, the online component, is as of this moment collapsing under load.I bought it because I want to support it. I love Uplink so much. And Hacknet was also pretty good (although I didn't stick with it like Uplink) and the thought of a multiplayer version is worth the $13.37. The potential, the chance of it is worth even throwing away $13.37. Lunch buffet money.If that sounds like you? FIre away. If not, then don't bother buying. Just follow. See where things go.The game, as it is right now, is pretty rough. I'm not through the tutorial and almost gave up twice. I'm stuck again, but I'm going to keep on. I'm giving it the thumbs up for now, but I need to see where this goes.It's nowhere near Uplink or Hacknet yet. If you need a playable game right now in this spirit, I suggest either one.
i just bought this so i could spend LE.ET dollars
great music. fun tutorial. game really makes you think
I really want to like this game, but the initial money-gathering so you can start for real, along with the incredibly tedious hardline, which you have to enter in order to test scripts for breaking open NPC accounts, puts the promise of a game where you can write programs to explore the world on the other side of the sort of repetitive activity that we write programs in order to avoid.
I don't normally do this sort of thing normally - reviews are best left to those with better language and eloquency than I have. But, frankly, I love this game too much not to talk about it.ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ is a text-based terminal hacking game that features a user-driven social engineering and scripting backbone. The aim of ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ is to accumulate power and wealth. Currently, that means one of two things: Hack the biggest guy, or scam the most people.ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ isn't perfect, but as a constantly-evolving game made by one man, it has incredibly potential, and already has a huge amount of vested interest for me.The hacking interface is intensely immersive, with every command being inputted in javascript key:pair sets, with a somewhat-filtered 90s usenet aesthetic. It features a fantastic intro tutorial that is around an hour long at the longest, teaching you everything you'll need to know about the game's tools, and what easy mistakes one can make after leaving it.The community base itself is exactly what you would expect from this sort of game. The main channel is flooded with ads and phishing scams, whereas the more hidden channels are rife with a mixture of altruism and cloak and dagger. The player-created corporations also end with their own private chats, complete with organizational structures such as counter-intelligence divisions, defensive/offensive coders, and so on.However, the game is far from perfect, in its current state.The economy is a closed system, as it stands, and the currency can be safely used to buy upgrades, which at the time of writing, cannot be stolen. There is also no way to extract scripts or database information from other players, and most of the info communicated to the community is done so by word-of-mouth rather than through patchnotes.As well, thanks to the nature of different systems such as the market, the value of money isn't exactly stable. Players are not shown the value of an item they are given based on market value, so most simply assign an arbitrary number, gouging the prices of things regularly. As well, despite the game's developer injecting cash into the system regularly, the economy has no money sinks, meaning that in a short amount of time, money has become more and more worthless.Despite this, I've done huge documents with my corporation laying out our plans based on confirmed updates, and already we're collecting the info we need to make our move when the time is right.In closing, ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ is a brilliant game, but a game you should wait a month from the time of writing before buying. For reference, this review was written on the 9th of October, 2016.
I'm not one to write review but man does this game deserve one.
I'dr, I love this game.
This is the game I have always wanted.
I would have gladly payed double the price for this game.This game is about so much more than hacking.
It is about how human beings interact on a primal level.
It is about trust, deception, betrayal, infiltration.
There are so many amazing things you can do in this game.
The only limit is your imagination.
While I'm writing a script for something I'll get 5 other amazing ideas or ways of trying to trick people.
I just don't have enough time in a day to code it all :(.That being said, if you're here for the hacking, there is plenty of that to scratch your itch as well.
If you are even slightly interested in javascript, probably play this game. It's neat.
it makes you feel like your a real hacker
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