Hacking4Dummies

by madpew
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.28
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.12
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.72
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Community★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★32%
As a hacker you need to take over servers, to use their powers to hack more servers. Dunno if that fits the theme.
I'm happy I finished and I'm some kind of proud of the voice-acting / music /gfx stuff :D
thanks 4 watching

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Comments19

Covenant23 Aug 2010, 07:56
The game is well done, although it's bitch hard... : Don't think it suits the theme, though, but even so... it was fun playing! :)
mathias
mathias23 Aug 2010, 08:21
Hell yeah.

Ausnahmetext
System.InvalidOperationException: Die Sequenz enthält mehrere übereinstimmende Elemente.
bei System.Linq.Enumerable.SingleTSource
bei LD18.Achievements.GetTitle()
bei LD18.WinForm..ctor()
bei LD18.GameController.ProcessReward(Int32 Reward)
bei LD18.pnmServerControl.Picture_DoubleClick(Object sender, EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnDoubleClick(EventArgs e)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
hcs23 Aug 2010, 10:07
Fun! I suck at Mastermind but it stayed interesting. Some different layouts for the route might have been nice.
Jhelle
Jhelle23 Aug 2010, 11:28
I commend your effort but I didn't feel the fun factor here. Audio was very well done though and I liked the server names :)
pdyxs24 Aug 2010, 02:30
Really liked this game, though it did remind me a bit of the plumbing from bioshock. Audio was excellent as well.

Was winning supposed to generate an error?
madpew
madpewauthor24 Aug 2010, 03:01
pdyxs, no it's not supposed to be like this.
The error is fixed in the patched version. (It only happens when you got 2 achievements with the same score, so the game crashes on deciding which rank to use :D)
It's still kinda funny getting a error on the winning screen of a hack-game :) Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you liked it.
Danik
Danik24 Aug 2010, 08:04
Fun game, takes a bit more thinking than most. The 5-digit mastermind puzzels were challenging!
goffmog
goffmog25 Aug 2010, 02:11
Definitely one I will go back to to try and beat! One thing Hey that's a fun game, it's hard to begin with but after you hack your first box it really starts to flow. I did have a couple of frustrated restarts before I could figure out how to play though since I didn't realise you had to double click the servers :) Clever interpretation of the theme.
KilledByAPixel
KilledByAPixel25 Aug 2010, 17:21
Pretty cool idea. Those master mind puzzles were tough, I had to give up at the 5 digit one. Maybe whenever you get a new ~ or ! it gives you a little more time? I think that could add to the tension while also giving players more time.
madpew
madpewauthor26 Aug 2010, 01:53
KilledByAPixel, you can buy additional seconds in the market (taking the red pill). It's still hard though.
I already doubled the times after noticing noone else than me can succeed. Seems like it's still too fast. Lesson learned :)
skintkingle26 Aug 2010, 10:03
Instant crash, looks like i don't have a dependency installed that you used.
Care to post WHAT needs to be installed?
Spooner
Spooner27 Aug 2010, 11:33
Pipe-hacking lifted straight from Alien Swarm (and others) and Mastermind, but at least put together in a nice package. My primitive ape brain couldn't hack fast enough to finish the game, but at least that means it had a decent scaling difficulty.

Wherefor art thou, Theme?
madpew
madpewauthor27 Aug 2010, 12:00
well about the theme I used the enemies (the server) as a weapon against other servers. (as you need X Servers/Bandwidth to hack another one) - lil bit abstract.
Can't blame you for that. btw. Alien Swarm was the inspiration for the pipe-hacks :D
pekuja30 Aug 2010, 17:50
A pretty good hacking game. Reminded me a lot of Uplink. I liked the voice samples and music too. The only problems were that I never quite understood how the hacking requirements worked, or when I would ever need a firewall. The game also crashed when I hacked 4chan.
eli
eli2 Sep 2010, 10:42
Hacking music WIN! Great job on the coolness factor.
Really good look and feel. I'd really like a more shallow learning curve. Also, the visual puzzle was much cooler than the number one.
Martoon
Martoon3 Sep 2010, 22:50
Crashes when launching. I have .Net Framework 4.0, so not sure what the problem is. Didn't vote since I can't run it.
sirGustav
sirGustav6 Sep 2010, 14:15
interesting, but really hard... :(

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