Hacker Café

by sacredseedstudio

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.72

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.72

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.38

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★77%

Welcome to the Hacker Café, the only room you'll ever need to spend time in again!

At the Hacker Café, you use their computers, and the security is a little lacking to say the least. You'll be bombarded with pings from questionable sources. It's up to you to decide how (and IF) you want to respond.

Making decisions will affect your bitcoin, hacker rep (white hat vs black hat), software and hardware. Keep everything in balance to stay alive, make it to the top and most importantly, get that 1337 status.

How long will you survive?

On typos: it's a feature, not a bug

Some Notes:
- We didn't create the audio
- The game is still lacking in content, and we definitely plan to add much (much) more, don't be surprised when the same things happen more than once ;)
- We only used 2/3 days to actually work on the game (party, hangover, ya know)
- We're going to keep working on this (REALLY happy with it)
- This is our 3rd Ludum Dare (32, 36 & 37)
- Sarah is the og hacker name, deal with it
- :) :) :) :)

Updates:
- The names at the login screen are randomized, but you can change it if you like
- When I say lacking in content, I mean there are ONLY 25 unique pings right now, check back at the end of the voting for an updated version :)

Comments25

onixowl13 Dec 2016, 05:07

Interesting concept. Looks like it can be cool base for some narrative-heavy based game

EthanBierlein13 Dec 2016, 20:45

I really like the concept, and the game has a cool vibe, but it felt like there weren't very many unique notifications.

gdcvdqpl13 Dec 2016, 21:20

Notifications felt a bit repetitive over time. Some stuff made me laugh a bit, like when you try to hack someone but "unfortunately he is better than you" lol... As if hacking was like in the movies where actors type really really fast on their keyboard.

Nikteddy9214 Dec 2016, 01:46

Minimalistic, perfect and functional style.
Smooth gameplay.
Very nice entry! Well done!

DragonZBW (SparkLight Games)14 Dec 2016, 01:53

I wish the text boxes at the beginning for the username and password didn't already have text in them. I wish there were some more skill involved, like maybe when you try and hack someone you have to type some random nonsense really fast.

limmmmm14 Dec 2016, 02:19

Nice UI and animations. couldn't really tell whether i won or lost? is it a loss if the game ends at all?

Fuad14 Dec 2016, 12:03

I like heavy narrative games. This game gives interesting view on "hacker life" :)

I found one bug, if you don't close choice window and begin to click on menu bar on left, the messages will begin appear and game efficiently stuck.

freyby14 Dec 2016, 18:43

Really smooth gameplay and nice looking grapchics, i dunno why, but this game reminded me of game called Reigns.

Ithildin14 Dec 2016, 20:54

I liked the concept, a bit "Reigns meets Mr Robot" :)

It was fun to play, although it became a bit repetitive eventually. I didn't get to see if there were connections between some of your actions besides the obvious pluses/minuses to the resources, that would be interesting.

And a small bug: on my first replay one of the notification panels glitched and remained on-screen until I started a new game.

Nice job!

BlackQuiltro14 Dec 2016, 22:11

It is an interesting concept :)
It needed a bit more focus or clearer objectives.
Loved the interface, very clean.

Protrance15 Dec 2016, 01:33

Cool little game, but I wish there was a bit more to it.

bigpan15 Dec 2016, 01:55

I'm guessing you got inspired by the recent hacker game released by Ubisoft? Good job on the mechanics, I think the game is polished and fun. Keep making games!

Ednei15 Dec 2016, 03:43

Interesting concept and innovation on the theme, I like the graphic and sound, but I could not understand the factor of victory and defeat perfectly. But good job, very well!

Andrew Deem15 Dec 2016, 06:51

Cool take on the theme. Would love to see this expanded further into a bigger game. Could take a cool approach with morality on this one (like white hat vs black hat).

XenosNS16 Dec 2016, 13:35

I feel so l33t now!

nilead16 Dec 2016, 17:25

Like KINGS but more 1337. The seed for a good indie game if you work on it further.

Firellon16 Dec 2016, 17:35

Looks good, but a repetitiveness eventually stopped me from playing.
Nice work, anyway. Lots of stuff!

dominisz16 Dec 2016, 20:31

Interesting idea, but i'm not sure how player's choices affect the indicators.

Shivur17 Dec 2016, 15:36

Very original game.

Jupiter_Hadley18 Dec 2016, 17:12

Neat game! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 37 games, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/8ZKn12Y_qVg

SoulBound19 Dec 2016, 03:04

This is a very fun game. The music and art enhanced the atmosphere of the game. Well done!

terryg19 Dec 2016, 04:32

nice game. Needs a bit more, but good job using only 2/3 of the time.

Dynamic Panic Studios19 Dec 2016, 19:39

Cool idea, but way too limited in dialog. After a few minutes my feed was filled with the same boxes.

axoona29 Dec 2016, 14:38

cool game, I like the concept and it sounds fun to play as a hacker. it surely has potential
However I tried a few times and I don't really know if I was any good at it or no. I guess the icons in the top right corner indicate something but it would have been good to give some more explicit feedback to the player.

Iak29 Dec 2016, 21:40

The game has good graphics and sounds. I like the concept and the different options, though the goal wasn't very clear.

I also had a bit of a bug? I think. I sometimes couldn't click anything. Not sure why. But after clicking around randomly for a bit it worked again.

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