HACK THE PLANET

javi7 2022-10-03 23:55

I think your download link is broken. When I click, I go to "https://files.jam.host/uploads/$303851/HACK_THE_PLANET.zip" and the page just says "Not found"

picusbgames 2022-10-04 00:05

Hey there! :) I got to your itch page but the link is incorrect... You have an extra undrescore character on the link here (it should be https://jessfromonline.itch.io/hack-the-planet)

genericparadox 2022-10-04 00:22

You should fix the links dude, I got to the game from the commenter above me. But I really like your interface, the feeling of being in a hacker environment. It's an assault on the senses on all fronts and I love that. It is a bit too complex and it seems pins were repeating, not sure if that was intentional. But if you want to work on it and develop it more it could be a very cool system. Really liked navigating with keypads for once :3

gryph0n 2022-10-04 00:27

I'm a big fan of this! I love that I can live my cyber life and be in (imagined) cool digital environments.

jess-from-online 2022-10-04 00:41

I think the links are fixed now, thanks @picusbgames! and i think the LD servers have just been inconsistent @javi7, that linked worked for me so i couldnt replicate :(

thank you everyone else for the kind words!!

cosmonautical 2022-10-04 00:51

The amount of effort that went into this is insane. All the extra 'stuff' like the conversations and over the top forum signatures was great. The gameplay itself as pretty cool once I figured out how it all worked, but the admin robots were a little annoying because they were unavoidable at times.

picusbgames 2022-10-04 01:01

@jess-from-online yep it was fixed but I guess I closed the page before adding my next comment haha... Which was this was pretty fun and unique among what I've seen so far. Looks like a lot of good creative effort went into this :)

michelle-olson 2022-10-04 03:39

This is so dope! There is a staggering amount of content in this - awesome work :D Really unique premise!

zevsehg 2022-10-04 05:44

Nice game! I like this mood! P R A I S E T H E C O D E !

pusheeneiro 2022-10-04 08:09

Oh yeah, the good old hacking games are what I need.

jirrev 2022-10-04 19:14

Ow, I always love these games, Hacknet one of them. So well done! It feels very polished and although it feels like a jam game, it feels like that in the best sense of the word.

fnessa 2022-10-04 19:28

I got too invested in the game to remmeber any criticism i had. Great game!

xenoparticle 2022-10-04 19:58

That was an amazing experience, I loved all the little touches that really gave the game a lot of character. Only criticism is that the 'hacks' became very repetitive. Other than that, loved the whole vibe of it!

lavendaggers 2022-10-04 20:52

Very in-depth fiction, love the world! Impressive esp for a jam!

slimewizardrobyn 2022-10-05 05:39

The writing and overall vibes on this are absolutely immaculate. Could not get enough of the forum posting and the characters. Gameplay wise I enjoyed it, could have been a bit harder tho. I won my 3rd run and the only reason I ever lost runs was getting pwned by an offscreen spider because I lost track of the timer and moved into a locked node right as it ticked down, but it was still really fun especially given the dev constraints of a game jam. Given the time to add more depth to it this is absolutely a game I could see myself playing a ton of.

HACK THE PLANET!

rawb 2022-10-05 18:37

Really great and completely unique game. I have never seen something like it before and it really works. It look a while to get the hang of but once I did it was really awesome.

Also I love the insane amount of polish here. I spent ages just reading the bulletin before even getting into the dive part. Really cool stuff!

perrin 2022-10-11 14:59

Though this was absolutely dripping with style, and it's impressive how much text you've put together in such a short period of time. My biggest gripe would probably be the maths based puzzles aren't very fun and there are a lot of thme.

dodgergram 2022-10-16 11:45

Awesome concept, love the style! Don't really know what's going on every 10 seconds though.

heather-flowers 2022-10-16 12:36

Thank you! To answer your question, @dodgergram, the spiders in 4TRESS move every ten seconds, locking unlocked nodes and pouncing on nearby players.

dodgergram 2022-10-16 12:53

@heather-flowers aaaah, alright that makes sense thanks for replying!

hekateras 2022-10-20 18:32

Fantastically fun game that feels like a spiritual continuation of games like Uplink and Hacknet. I had to stop my session because of a visual glitch (I think a spider moved to my node while I was trying to select a dialogue option and the dialogue box was overlaid for the rest of the session), but I'll play it again. I'd just "unlocked" getting friends to dive with you, which minimised the annoyance of the math locked node. I've figured out ways to get past every type of security so far and it was pretty satisfying. I enjoy the fact that difficulty is customisable, too. also, "Greetings 1s, 0s, and nonbinary types" got a good chuckle out of me. :D

I'm glad you released a version which fixes the display issue on small monitors as I was having that problem, having downloaded this game on day 1 of the jam (but got sidetracked before playing it).

It would be nice to have a button for exiting a dive. I have my Esc key mapped to something else (after spilling tea on my actual Esc key :'( ) and the game wasn't responding to the alternate mapping, so I was stuck in a dive until I deliberately got caught by a spider. My problem is pretty rare though, so I understand if this isn't worth your time.

hekateras 2022-10-20 20:08

Update: beat the game and even had a long dive on Hard difficulty :D this is great