This is a virtual machine running Debian Unstable (in CLI). You need VirtualBox (File -> Import appliance). It's a big download (900MiB) so only bother if you are interested and at least kinda fluent with terminals. Made in 24 hours for the Compo.
Objective
Explore the OS and gain access to all emails. More of a proof of concept than a game.
Controls
QWERTY keyboard recommended.
login: alice
password: 1234
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to me. This is worst idea I ever had. I outdid myself.
It's a capture-the-flag type of game. As you navigate through an old-ish unix system you'll discover passwords to obtain further information. I could open the eml 3 and then stuck. The terminal displays random characters at random places, but I don't know if this is intentional or bug. The shell is kinda buggy; when command is not found, it doesn't recover from the escape sequence, and subsequent prompts are concatenated. I successfully quit vim so I consider it a win. :) Overall, an interesting idea.
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Starlight Glimmer is best poney21 Oct 2021, 18:37
Thank you all for playing. I never intended for this game to be rated, but I'm glad a few people tried it.
Yes, it is a Niko plush, and yes, random characters were intended.
Really wanted to try this, but I just get this error: ``` Call to WHvSetupPartition failed: ERROR_SUCCESS (Last=0xc000000d/87) (VERR_NEM_VM_CREATE_FAILED).```
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Starlight Glimmer is best poney21 Oct 2021, 19:53
@python-b5 I'm not sure why it throws that. Are you on VB 6.1.26 or 28? 28 was released only 2 days ago so I haven't tested it but it shouldn't have broken anything. I tested it on 6.1.26 on both windows and linux host.
An interesting project, though I personally don’t really get it. On the first attempt I typed in cat, after which it froze and I had to reinstall. Then I installed it again, this time I couldn’t type in the password for whatever reason, no text actually, in the password section. I had to reinstall one last time, and this time… I still couldn’t type the password, but after I managed to hop in after spamming random characters, I think it was a failsafe feature or somethin.
Anyways once I got in I looked around a bit, and honestly props, I don’t know how much of this you made but if you did the commands and stuff it’s impressive considering it’s under 3 days. I read the emails, tried out the commands, and ultimately I didn’t really figure out how to get the passwords for the emails so I called it a day there, typed in cat again, and that was that.
A rather ambitious project, don’t really get it as I ain’t really fluent with terminals [I know what you said but… I wanted to give it a try], but props for making something, and something unique too!
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Is that a Niko plush photo I'm looking at?
Thanks for the game. You've done something truly amazing.
Yes, it is a Niko plush, and yes, random characters were intended.
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Call to WHvSetupPartition failed: ERROR_SUCCESS (Last=0xc000000d/87) (VERR_NEM_VM_CREATE_FAILED).```
Maybe this: https://superuser.com/questions/1502529/call-to-whvsetuppartition-failed-error-success-last-0xc000000d-87-verr-nem-v
Unfortunately I'm out of time to actually play it, but I'll give this a try later if I can get it working!
On the first attempt I typed in cat, after which it froze and I had to reinstall.
Then I installed it again, this time I couldn’t type in the password for whatever reason, no text actually, in the password section. I had to reinstall one last time, and this time… I still couldn’t type the password, but after I managed to hop in after spamming random characters, I think it was a failsafe feature or somethin.
Anyways once I got in I looked around a bit, and honestly props, I don’t know how much of this you made but if you did the commands and stuff it’s impressive considering it’s under 3 days.
I read the emails, tried out the commands, and ultimately I didn’t really figure out how to get the passwords for the emails so I called it a day there, typed in cat again, and that was that.
A rather ambitious project, don’t really get it as I ain’t really fluent with terminals [I know what you said but… I wanted to give it a try], but props for making something, and something unique too!