Most of all I hope script kiddies like me aren't excluded from the fun by tough coding challenges a la the javascript-heavy Screeps. It sounds a little ambitious but I'm keen to see how it actually works. at large.” There’s to be a fully-scriptable world with a “player-based economy and in-game botting.” That means you'll be hacking other folks and stealing all their bit-monies. Taking elements from the MUDs of yore, this one says you’ll need to “use real-world hacking skills (social engineering, cracking, research, scripting.) for power and influence in the M.U.D. A plot which reminds me of the gentle Digital: A Love Story.īut it’s the promise of a “user-created multiplayer world” hidden beneath all the codes and commands that has me hacking through its tutorial right now. There you’ll meet other lesser AIs and work together to figure it all out. To escape you have to prove yourself to The Trust – an all-powerful AI that runs things.
There’s a single-player element to it as you start off stuck in a virtual LAN unable to reach the greater internet. Like a lot of other terminal-based hackers, you’ll have to type commands, execute scripts, guess passwords and pilfer money by transferring it electronically to your own shell accounts. Go put on your best hacker sunglasses and come back to watch the trailer. Hackmud is a ‘massively-multiplayer hacking sim’ and it has just been released. That vision of multiplayer digital trespass sadly did not come to pass, but perhaps this can scratch that cyperpunk itch. The creator said this was a hangover from an unfinished multiplayer mode, whereby players could freak each other out by opening their opponents’ CD trays.
- Use real-world hacking skills (social engineering, cracking, research, scripting.) for power and influence in the M.U.D.One of the silly hidden features of Hacknet was the ability to open your own CD tray with a typed command.
- Create and destroy digital empires while exploring the constantly evolving user-created multiplayer world.
- Let the text-based interface transport you back to the early internet-era when computing was full of discovery.
- Demonstrate hunger for power, flexibility of thought, and keen strategy to convince The Trust of your value and escape the virtual L.A.N.
- ‘Patch into the hardline’ to access other users’ protected systems and steal their digital goods.
- 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’.
- Learn who you can trust as you make friends and enemies exploring the depths of abandoned future internet cyber-structure.
- Get lost in a deep and complex world full of challenging puzzles as you engage in a rich narrative riddled with intrigue and deception. H a c k m u d is a cyberpunk themed text-based hacking simulator for intel-compatible personal home computers.