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- kensai 7y agoScary shit! Thank you for the sleepless nights! :D
- thom 7y agoPlay with your friends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box#AI-box_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box#AI-box_experiment
- 076ae80a-3c97-4 7y agoIs this open source? Really nice job, the code architecture seems fairly clean.
- mr-ron 7y agoIts open source in the sense that its all javascript :) I do have a repo that isnt on public Github yet, was going to add it after I iron out a couple more of the bugs that I am sure exist
- haldora 7y agoPlease do! Would love to learn more about how you built it :)
- DylanSp 7y agoI'd also love to see it! It sure seems to be well-made code, and I've got an idea or two for expanding/building upon it.
- dsx 7y agoSame here! I can't wait to fork this and add to it! Looking forward to seeing the source code. Amazing job on this game :3
- joshmarinacci 7y agoI love this. I've already absorbed another system and scanned the BBS for Dr Who info!
- jamil7 7y agoVery cool, getting a universal paperclips vibe already.
- greys 7y agoThat’s interesting! Tnx for the info
- johnnyy 7y agoCool I like it a lot
- jhack 7y agoThis is really well done and fun. Great job!
- caiobegotti 7y agoThis was super fun! Only after quite a while I have noticed how much time I had spent playing with it, great job! If I may suggest something, a visual like in https://css-tricks.com/old-timey-terminal-styling/ https://css-tricks.com/old-timey-terminal-styling/ would make it look even more retro-hax0r!
- mr-ron 7y agoThats super cool, will definitely look into that thanks!
- jascii 7y agoThat's some weird pseudo retro: As an old-timer I've seen green-on-black, amber-on-black, later black-on-white. Never white-on-green-black-fade.. Fonts tended to be pixelated rather then blurry (except maybe at 4am..) And yet, against knowing better, it looks decidedly retro. I wonder where that association comes from.
- ArekDymalski 7y agoAh, I miss the amber glow of C-64 :)
- Threeve303 7y agoThe effect seems to work because it appears to mimic the curvature of a cathode ray tube.
- jascii 7y agoI was also thinking its a bit reminiscent of a slow-phosphorous radar crt trace. While not a terminal, its decidedly retro ;)
- yboris 7y agoRelated for work: Cool Retro Term (CRT) - an actual retro terminal for your day! https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
- xrisk 7y agoany way to save my progress?
- mr-ron 7y agoNo, no save unfortunately sorry
- aurbano 7y agoThis was really fun! Thanks for making it :) Got to a point where I overloaded a host and my system melted taking me back to the start, is that the end or should I try again to get past that?
- kube-system 7y agoDoes it gain the ability to use certbot.exe at some point? :D
- mr-ron 7y ago:D yes I am aware its not using https yet... will aim to do that shortly
- kube-system 7y agoYou do have https turned on, but it's just using a self-signed cert. Those using https-everywhere[0] get automatically redirected to the https version and get a cert error. [0]: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
- DylanSp 7y agoIf you don't want to deal with certs yourself (and you're ok with a *.netlify.com URL), you could always use Netlify and get HTTPS for free.
- efreak 7y agoOr github pages, if you already have an account there.
- 076ae80a-3c97-4 7y agoHow does one turn on devtools?
- mr-ron 7y agoThere are some params you can add to expose them. They dont do much, mostly used to pause the game when needing to debug.
- logicallee 7y agolet's take a moment to appreciate the fact that the parent poster is a human actually trying to break out of a sandbox (enter God mode) in a simulation in which you roleplay a computer trying to break out of a sandbox. Parent posts on a forum, and the author of the sandbox gives up all the available information readily. Imagine if a computer were allowed to ask technical questions, and did so by posting about a VM they happened to be in...
- jonnycomputer 7y agoI'm having problems analyzing the packets. the analyze option disappears ...
- andrewflnr 7y agoYou may need more space.
- jonnycomputer 7y agothat was 27" screen, so not likely. but I'll try again later to see if maybe I just wasn't looking right. thx
- currymj 7y agonot screen space, storage space in the game. you might have to delete some in-game files.
- haldora 7y agoThis is so amazing! Thanks for putting it together and sharing it
- SomaticPirate 7y agoReminds me of https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
- mr-ron 7y agoYes definitely some inspiration taken from there. Wanted to get to the equivalent of the release the drones button.
- clambodile 7y agoEver since that game came out, I've been waiting for something else to come along and scratch the same itch. This was it! Loved it!
- MrTrvp 7y agoHave you played http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/
- zomglings 7y agoThis is a great game so far. I think I noticed a bug close to the beginning of the game - when I only had the first two zipfiles (neither of which were zbMath.zip), I saw a message about zbMath.zip in the logs on the left. Would love a save feature, even if it was just local to each browser instance - no need for login, etc.
- mr-ron 7y agoThanks for the feedback and yes there's definitely a bug there, thanks for finding it. Save would be nice, only thing is I know theres data in the DOM itself (boooo) that would not make it a great fit out of the box. Its only about a 40-90min experience or so though, so its possible to finish it in one go.
- dkonofalski 7y agoFYI, the stats for Rock, Paper, Scissors don't reset if you get restarted.
- ArekDymalski 7y agoAdding to the bugs collection: there's a typo in "getting intimate with your Oracale" I guess :)
- diggan 7y ago> Would love a save feature, even if it was just local to each browser instance - no need for login, etc. Fun that you say this, just as WebKit/Safari/Apple announced that they will stop making local storage useful for most use cases https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22683535
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoAfter a restart the selected disk doesn't change back to /home/sky1s1
- mr-ron 7y ago
- yur3i__ 7y agoIs the EONS cluster meant to be the end or is there more to it? So I know if its worth trying again
- mr-ron 7y agoIts part of the game, if you try again make sure you have 10 cores
- morgancmartin 7y agoWith maxed out overclocking on all cores, I only needed six.
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- 076ae80a-3c97-4 7y agohttp://skynetsimulator.com/?fastmode=true http://skynetsimulator.com/?fastmode=true to get through faster if like myself you've tried playing 4 times now and always fail get reset.
- mr-ron 7y agoHa yes this will work tho the end game will be a bit distorted. If you have failed 4 times, thats generally because you are either deleting things that you havent used, or else you attacked EONS before you were ready
- 076ae80a-3c97-4 7y agoYep, done both of those! Such a great game, well done.
- mr-ron 7y agoGlad you like it!
- 076ae80a-3c97-4 7y ago"SKYNET CREATED"! Finally! It only too me 2 hours and fastmode. Such a great game!
- phoobot 7y agoVery nice!
- irscott 7y agoThis rules, nice work.
- ge96 7y ago> Absorbing star host We are BORG This is neat, like a text rpg or something Is there a time constraint on the game? If I stay idle too long do I lose?
- mr-ron 7y agoNo, no time constraint
- ge96 7y agoI did have a question about if you considered showing the amount that was analyzed when you're listening to a port/environment(?) because I didn't know how much more I needed to do/what I was going for. I mean I did figure it out/got to the end. I was aware of a 10MB figure on one option.
- outworlder 7y agotypo: "automation purpouses"
- mr-ron 7y agothanks
- KiDD 7y agoThat was really fun! ...and kinda scary. Love it!
- goda90 7y agoGreat game! I feel like this could do well with some procedural generation to keep the game going and growing.
- zomglings 7y agoJust finished the game. Not sure if I should write it here - after I did the Time Spike, in the new timeline, I still had the option of probing outwards and exploring the network. Is that supposed to be there? Really enjoyed this. Great job, mr-ron! It is the best game of this type that I have played. I like that it had something of a plot and didn't soak up as much time as paperclip game (which I got bored of after 3 hours).
- mr-ron 7y agoThanks for the feedback! Yes that option is still there just for yucks. Its possible to beat it 'twice' in that regard but nothing special will happen
- thom 7y agoSpent far too long playing the game within the game, pretty sure Skynet's not going to take over as long as Steam is installed in its box. Also I made sure to convert all my machines to Solaris, just because there were no known exploits within the game for that, but I assume that was unnecessary? Was annoying to have to convert everything to MSDOS again near the end. :P
- mr-ron 7y agoHah yeah that was unnecessary. Glad you enjoyed Time Quest as well :)
- andrewflnr 7y agoI played that minigame to the end because I thought there might be a clue I needed. In fact, I just needed to inspect the menu options more closely. :-/ It was a good game though, inside another good game...
- thom 7y agoYeah, this was my experience until I realised you could click on your own machines, but I was quite glad for the distraction tbh.
- ptrincr 7y agoNot sure why, but this gave me asmr tingles....
- ge96 7y agoit had sound?
- bkanber 7y agoThis was fantastic. Played the whole thing. Lots of fun, kudos!
- minitoar 7y agoReally reminds me of Uplink, a sort of hacking RPG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplink_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplink_(video_game)
- nicoty 7y agoReminds me of bitburner - https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/ https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/
- outworlder 7y agoThis reminds me of Uplink (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgb_YiHnNkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgb_YiHnNkU)
- ebeip90 7y agoIf you get stuck with RFCs.zip and portscanner.zip, but can't extract them despite moving files around to make enough space, open the Console and use diskSizeIncrease.
- mr-ron 7y agoReally surprised this may have happened, I havent seen that bug yet. Are you sure you deleted all 'used' files alongside them?
- ebeip90 7y agoThe only files I had on any disk were those two files, and I had the larger of the two ZIPs on sky1s1 so that the smaller of the two could extract on infodmp
- mr-ron 7y agoThat seems weird, i tried to replicate it using a few combos was not able to, wondering what may have caused this
- Deely123123 7y agoIf you click 'unzip file' all works fine. But if you click on file directly you will get message (that looks like error message) that you need space to extract. Maybe thats the reason of confusion..
- mr-ron 7y agoWhat I might do is if you click the file and there is space, Ill just unzip it for them.
- progval 7y agoMove the biggest of the two to the "sky" disk so you can extract the other one.
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- ebg13 7y agoBeat it. The only real bug I found (ignoring various random typos) was that if you change the arch/OS of the sony machine you can't go back to the original anymore because it keeps saying invalid OS. Luckily it doesn't matter because you don't need that platform.
- ProZsolt 7y agoNot OP. I think it's not a bug, it's a feature. You just bricked your PS.
- ebg13 7y agoNot bricked as such, since apparently playstations somehow have the ability to morph their CPUs into completely different CPUs.
- ckozlowski 7y agoThere's a hint here. ;)
- TrainedMonkey 7y agoThe reality is a s########n man :)
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- mrunkel 7y agoPhew got stuck on six hosts for a while before I realized that the greyed out options gave you their requirements if you clicked on them. I had ignored them up until that point.
- springogeek 7y agoThis got me as well. Beat it after that
- dkonofalski 7y agoI'm still stuck on 7 hosts. I don't know how to get the 8th one in order to be able to force the other 3. I'm 100% scanned too and only have the Dr. Who .csv with no idea what to do with it. Edit: Nm! I figured it out. Great game!
- OceanKing 7y agoI'm still stuck on this, haha.
- dkonofalski 7y agoAre you asking for a hint? ;)
- OceanKing 7y agoNo, I figured it out as well :)
- dsl 7y ago...I am.
- wongarsu 7y agoremember to ping all the hosts
- dkonofalski 7y ago
- beams_of_light 7y agoI've spent hours playing this today. Thanks! Lots of fun.
- gpnt 7y agoThe game is amazing, but the Time Quest on n0v4's BBS is even better! Kudos.
- mr-ron 7y agoHah glad you liked it
- Apocryphon 7y agoIt reminds me a lot of A Dark Room.
- Apocryphon 7y agoMSDOS-32bit is like a miniboss
- voldacar 7y agothis is fantastic! reminds me a little of Uplink. what hacking never was, but always should have been
- LockAndLol 7y agoFor some reason that froze my browser. It was fun to play though!
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- throw1234651234 7y agoThis is amazing. I guess you give this to your kid if you want them to dream of becoming a hacker one day. Though I guess you need the background of knowing the basics of what you are referring to.
- larodi 7y agokudos for the game, indeed took us back in time. incredible experience :D
- aaossa 7y ago@mr-ron, I never comment on anything, but this really deserves my respects. I had a really good time playing and enjoyed having to use my knowledge to crete Skynet. Thanks for creating this.
- mr-ron 7y agosuper nice thank you!
- Androider 7y agoAnyone find out what is the purpose of the drwho.csv file? :)
- dkonofalski 7y agoNope! I tried to move it to various hosts before I absorbed them with no luck.
- mr-ron 7y agoHeh sorry drwho.csv is just a joke on crazy people on BBS who for whatever reason seem to love talking about Dr Who
- ckozlowski 7y agoJust got the "congratulations" message. So much fun. Thanks so much for sharing!
- whynotkeithberg 7y agoI got 10 cores & did the spike overload. However, it just started messing with my system. It says I need ot research the EONS but I am not sure what... I also can't figure out how to use CellOS. I can keep my system from melting down like others are talking about... But I'm not sure where to proceed. The securedev network came to life though. I'm guessing maybe I need to capture more of that? I have all my cores upgraded & everything researched as far as i know.
- mr-ron 7y agoYou definitely have the right idea with the securedev front
- whynotkeithberg 7y agoI may not have enough space. I maxed it all out & it just keeps saying about the needing to collect enough.
- whynotkeithberg 7y agoI think I may have missed some stuff on the servers before I absorbed them. I'm going to restart & see if I missed anything. EDIT: Oh I got somethign new... Some research on the time spike. So maybe I did something right. Ah yes I got it!! Glad I didn't restart lol
- mr-ron 7y agoPHEW
- mr-ron 7y agoOof that seems really surprising, you should have enough space if you get through all of that, I am really surprised. I am going to check and see if theres any way to get a host without getting the disk.
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- ebeip90 7y agoAre you supposed to be able to beat this while never accessing the secure network?
- dkonofalski 7y agoYou can't scan it but you can listen for traffic on it.
- bitlevel 7y agoTo beat the game you will need to access the secure network at some point. Loved the game - thanks for the mind workout.
- ebeip90 7y agoI beat the game without ever scanning or listening to the secure network shrug. I probably had access to it after the Ping Spike and before becoming Skynet, but I was to busy clicking things to care.
- marzell 7y agoFYI The text is insanely small in chrome mobile, and if I pinch zoom the text is very wide so I have to scroll horizontally to read it
- mr-ron 7y agoYeah I put only minimal effort into mobile, not sure if it is at all possible to make actually usable though, since theres so much interactions across the screen you need. I can increase the text though if it works.
- marzell 7y agoNo worries, I was just trying to figure out what this was all about.. I'll load it up on another device
- stordoff 7y agoI _really_ thought quant.bat was going to be malicious due to the "dont download and use the random files out there!" warning and it being described as _claims to_ double your processing capabilities.
- dkonofalski 7y agoSame. I avoided opening it for the longest time and tried to upload it on another host before I absorbed it thinking that I could always nuke it and then absorb it.
- stordoff 7y agoI ended up digging through the JS. I didn't feel like restarting if I was wrong, and it felt oddly fitting.
- gerardnll 7y agoLooks like a GET call to http://skynetsimulator.com/update.php http://skynetsimulator.com/update.php is logging a SQL statement: INSERT into log (created_at, local_time, uuid, action, data, ip, device,os) VALUES ('2020-03-25 17:00:53', '2020-03-25T21:00:53.507Z', '965a4b6e-4903-4aac-a418-7edd0cf8657c', 'startgame', 'restarted=false', '000.000.000.000', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36','')
- mr-ron 7y agoYes that is indeed happening, trying to get some adhoc metrics. Prob creating an error message somehow. Thanks I really should not return those :D
- whynotkeithberg 7y agoThat was very fun! Thank you!
- Bedon292 7y agoFun, but seem to have gotten myself stuck. 4 cores, 100% network scanned. All the research I can do is done. But the remaining hosts can't be absorbed: n0v4, Eris, Juno, Solar, EONS, Luna, Cypher. No Force Absorb, Ping Spike or Install Exploit on any of them. I think I absorbed one before mounting the disk or something?
- papreclip 7y agovery fun, the game-within-the-game was neat, too
- MegaLeon 7y agoThis was an amazing experience - really well written too, kudos. Can anyone recommend games/simulators similar to this?
- whynotkeithberg 7y agoI was about to ask the same thing! I'm hoping someone can come along with suggestions. I know of other text adventure games if you want something like that. But I kinda wanted something like this that I just click through. If you want a game where you type out what to do maybe check out Zork, or the Dreamhold or Night House.
- martinkallstrom 7y agoThis is an amazing classic which basically created the genre. It goes incredibly deep. And when you think it can’t go deeper, it still does: http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
- mr-ron 7y agoYes this too :)
- whynotkeithberg 7y agoThanks for the suggestion!
- mr-ron 7y agoThis is very much influenced by a few 'incremental games', specifically Candy Box, Candy Box 2, Paperclip game, and Mine Defense
- ChicagoDave 7y agoThere's an old IF (text adventure) called Bad Machine. https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=3a9rb059miw9fc9h https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=3a9rb059miw9fc9h
- polycaster 7y agoUniversal Paperclips follows a simular pattern. Pretty fun. You start with making single paperclips, discover automation and way to much time later you're leaving the SkyNet scenario far behind. https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/ https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
- lprubin 7y agoHow do you create cores? I feel like I'm stuck at that point with nothing else I can do without them.
- mr-ron 7y agoStart with Star Host
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- LolWolf 7y agoWohoo! That was a ton of fun! (Even though I should've been writing...) That was great, does anyone have any similar recommendations? I've done paperclip maximizer, but that was more of a clicker than anything else. But something of a similar nature?
- mr-ron 7y agoTry Mine Defense, Candy Box, Candy Box 2, and A Firelit room. Of those Id say Candy Box is the least click-heavy.
- LolWolf 7y agoSounds awesome! Thank you for the recommendations and the great game!
- DylanSp 7y agoUplink (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/) is probably the closest; it's a lot like this, with a good deal more complexity. Endgame Singularity (http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/) is similar, though it has more of that incremental/clicker-ish feeling.
- LolWolf 7y agoThanks! I'll go take a look at them :)
- jonnytran 7y agoThe EONS cluster actually froze my entire system. Running Firefox 74.0 on mac. It had a really cool glitch visual effect, and then my system froze. Almost as if it hacked my real computer...
- mr-ron 7y agoLol sorry about that though it's just css
- karakanb 7y agoTruly fascinating work. I spent quite a lot of time trying to hack into Juno, but I managed to do it eventually, turns out I forgot to read something in the disks. You made my day with this, thank you!
- Wingman4l7 7y agoIf you enjoy this -- and I am, thoroughly so far -- I highly recommend Endgame: Singularity ( http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ ) I'm listening to that game's soundtrack as I play Skynet Simulator; very fitting!
- nicoboo 7y agoAwesome and well, simply, done. I enjoyed it @mr-ron! In that time of confinement, I had a great time trying it.
- DylanSp 7y agoI really enjoyed this! As others have said, reminds me of a streamlined Uplink in terms of UI, which is no bad thing. I'd love to see more, though I'm not sure how much more complexity you could add to the core gameplay loop to keep it interesting. Perhaps some more puzzles, maybe attacks where you have to gain footholds in other networks?
- occsceo 7y agoOP, thanks for this! was a pleasant retreat in between meetings today.
- wintorez 7y agoVery nice!
- yummypaint 7y agoVery enjoyable. I couldn't help imagine this expanded to the next step of conquest. The filesize and space limitations could evolve into management of physical resources and moving compute centers around to avoid attack.
- dbish 7y agoFun game. It reminds me of a MUD (without the multi-player component). I wonder what a multi-player version of something like this would look like
- teabee89 7y agoI was afraid that another AI instance would absorb me. In fact I kept deleting my files (which turned out to be useful) to prevent other AIs to learn from me. Would have been cool to see incoming connections of dumber AIs. Loved the game though, thanks!
- mr-ron 7y agoHah thought about that but thought the messages would be too easily lost
- chrisdalke 7y agoThis is great! I got so lost in the Time Quest minigame that I forgot about the larger game for a while! :)
- tapland 7y agoThis was the most engaging gaming experience I've had in a while. It's nice to get a grats and thank you at the end too.
- ganstyles 7y agoLoved it! This was amazing and lots of fun. Thanks for making it. Took me two go arounds, the first time I did EONS too early, and second I didn't realize all green text was clickable. So got there eventually, tons of fun.
- elipsey 7y agoDestroyed my afternoon, could not do anything until I finished this. Do you have a patreon? :)
- mr-ron 7y agoThank you, no need, honestly give it to someplace that needs the $ with everything going on
- reificator 7y agoIf you enjoyed this game I think you'd be very likely to enjoy Endgame Singularity as well. It's been floating around for many years at this point. If you've ever browsed the games available on linux, especially prior to Steam support, you've probably seen it. http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/
- t0astbread 7y ago[SPOILER WARNING] That was so amazing! It starts out kinda eerie and liminal, then it's really cool when you start discovering all these things and learning about the people on the network (I stan Luna btw), then it becomes really dark and depressing when you start absorbing everyone. Extremely great atmosphere and storytelling! There are two occasions where you need more hard drive space than you ever get (the Parappa the Rapper game which is 694mb and analyzing the sandbox network which is 10mb). Can you actually do anything with that or are those just ambient props? Also can you just not convert anything to PowerPC+CellOS by yourself or have I missed something there (perhaps with the sony.key)? Time Quest is also amazing. I had to quit after my first attempt because I felt like I could poor an endless amount of time into it.
- andrewflnr 7y ago[MORE SPOILERS] I had enough space to analyze securedev once I deleted all my other files. I never tried to play the other game you mentioned.
- t0astbread 7y agoYeah analyzing securedev is part of the story but I thought there was also some network that required 10mb to analyze (as opposed to the 10-ish kb or so you get). Could be that I mixed something up there.
- dsl 7y agosecuredev is what you are thinking of. You need to wipe the drives of every host to store it.
- superasn 7y agoPlease make the option to save game. It's so interesting but I just can't take out more than 15 mins of time at a time. Maybe I'll run it on ec2 rdp until that feature hasn't arrived.
- bcyn 7y agoCan't you just leave the browser tab open until you're ready to come back to it? Not sure why you would need EC2 + RDP..
- dmitrybrant 7y agoSuper interesting concept! Enjoyed it from start to finish. One minor nitpick: it needs some spell-checking and copy editing throughout. I'd be happy to help if the code is somewhere accessible.
- mr-ron 7y agoDefinitely agree, the js is public but even then there's not a great way to share all the txt. If u see typos I'll fix them
- makkaky 7y agoLoved it, spent about an hour and a half total exploring until finish. Loved the style and technical workings of it, it really sucks you in :)
- CWCorrea 7y agoEnjoyed both Skynet Simulator and Time Quest. Great way to pass time during quarantine. Thanks for sharing it. I would love to see more after creating the Skynet. If you decide not to create the Skynet, you will restart the simulation in an alternate timeline probing outward and exploring memory reserves and network ports while having the Sky hosts available, but you cannot use these as cores to increase your processing power.
- gnarlysasquatch 7y agoI played all the way through on an iPad. Really enjoyed it, thank you! The only issue I had was that clicking links didn't work reliably... sometimes had to tap quite a few times for it to react, but even though often the text color would change so I know the touch hit the element. I saw the same on iPhone too.
- classified 7y agoJust a few days ago HN had a posting from way back when (Ron Gilbert, 1989) explaining exactly how this game needs polishing: https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck
- mr-ron 7y agoHuge fan of Ron. Never read this article thank you!
- redsec 7y agoThis game is so great, good job. It is clear, entertaining and very smart.
- jwiley 7y agoFantastic game, greatly enjoyed it. 5/5 on the ycombinator app store. :)
- DumbUser123 7y agoFinally! "SKYNET CREATED" Well done! (Enjoyed the TQ game too.)
- efreak 7y agoFor those playing on mobile (I started from materialistic's webview), it might be worthwhile to add a media query to 1. Reduce the width (the text is far too small, even on a 8" tablet it's ~1/2 the size of the system clock). 2. Add a good amount of padding to all buttons (I kept accidentally tapping the wrong file) and 3. Adjust the size of the -/del and +/move buttons in the file list; this was even worse than 2, and chrome's attempts to be helpful and pick the right button had the opposite effect here... 4. Request fullscreen as soon as possible if on mobile. The browser UI toggling as I scrolled was really annoying.
- KlaymenDK 7y agoThank you for this, I really had a blast. As others have noted, it doesn't look so fine on mobile, there are a ton of typo's, and the discoverability of some things is lacking -- this latter point is, I think, a really great feature, so please don't make the compressed files self-extracting. One thing, the UI is pretty plain. I know that's the style you're going for, but let me suggest / invite you to rip off the theme from my web site: https://jan.g-b.dk/ https://jan.g-b.dk/
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- jimmydddd 7y agoIf I leave the site, does it remember my place? Or do I have to stay on the site until I finish?
- dsx 7y agoHey mr-ron, do you have a github page that I can follow? I'd like to get notified when you put out new projects on github :D
- ReedJessen 7y agoIs there a way to save my progress?
- supermanwah 7y agoThis was so cool, thank you for posting! Loved the game and the mini-game!
- bamurphymac1 7y agoThis was lots of fun, thank you! Incidentally I listened to the new NIN Ghosts 5 album while playing and it finished just moments after I completed it. Fit perfectly. Great job!
- asforem 7y agoOkay, I'm seriously stuck on the 8th core. Hint please...
- sethlivingston 7y agoTHANK YOU, this was a blast! What's next?
- sethlivingston 7y agoAnd is there a way we can buy you a coffee or something?