Hack OR Die

the-neon-shark 2022-04-04 16:47

Great idea, but I want MORE!

The appeal of this game loop is excellent. The mechanics generally play nicely together, but the experience doesn't scale well past the first minute.

1. Once you have a steady income stream, then money doesn't matter. I became cash immortal within 40 seconds of playing. To fix this, the cost of items should go up over time. 2. When a node is depleted of cash or firewall, something should happen. A red node made it to $0 then just starting counting in the negatives... This was unexpected and sort of demoralizing since it felt like the game was broken. 3. The text didn't render very well on my screen so it was hard to read. Not a dealbreaker though.

Thanks for sharing this.

maymay 2022-04-04 18:19

Great concept; I really enjoy the clicker-style gameplay with the hacking theme! The balance at the start was great when I was frantically trying to buy all the equipment I needed, but the difficulty capped out pretty quickly when I ran out of new nodes to discover and had my shields up 100% of the time. Good job overall though!!

yanc0 2022-04-05 16:34

Nice game ! I love the idea. The music is nice, and the UI is very understandable. Thanks for sharing and can't wait to play your future games as well :heart: