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This game has a couple of interesting notes for me: 1. It's kinda what helped me find a career. I had trouble tolerating work for long enough, and while I cou

This game has a couple of interesting notes for me: 1. It's kinda what helped me find a career. I had trouble tolerating work for long enough, and while I could do it, it would get to me. I realized a LOT of the play patterns in this game are mostly optimization and data entry, so decided to take a start there and eventually wound up in tech. 2. It has a really cool, if possibly impossible to now play, fan made version called onlink. To memory it's not a mod so much as a separate application and has a lot more depth (annnnd unfortunately bugs). I know they were working on trying to make a standalone "movie hacking" simulator, but I don't know if that ever got off the ground (Cerberus I believe)

Kyuuketsuki 3y ago
There hasn't been a release in a while, but onlink is still in active development.
- drexlspivey 3y ago
  Last update: March 2019. Not really active
  - Kyuuketsuki 3y ago
    Like I said, no release in a while. I'm the original author. There's one other that works on code, and Vert (this blog) has been a tremendous help with asset updates. Turns out however that rewriting the graphical engine takes a while.
    - drexlspivey 3y ago
      Ever considered open sourcing it? Pretty sure some people will contribute, it’s an iconic game
      - Kyuuketsuki 3y ago
        Considered, yes, but Uplink is not open source, and it's not my right to do it either. I know the source is generally "out there" but the legality of that is murky.
        chongli 3y ago
        Have you tried reaching out to Chris DeLay and asking him about it? He might be okay with it!
        stavros 3y ago
        Does Onlink use any of the Uplink source, or is it written entirely from scratch? If the latter, it's definitely within your rights to open-source.
    - Eji1700 3y ago
      Already said it to vert, but just wanted to say I wish you luck. Onlink was tapping into a niche that I think is super under explored and you clearly understood what was actually fun about it.
suby 3y ago
Apparently the author of the article worked on onlink, https://vertette.github.io/post/helloworld https://vertette.github.io/post/helloworld.
- Vertette 3y ago
  Yeah, I'm still working on that! It's making lots of exciting progress we can't wait to show people.
  - Eji1700 3y ago
    Holy shit i'm super excited to hear that. I remember joining the forums (ferrous moon?) forever ago just to see if I could get help with some bugs and figure out how to get past the harder hacking missions. From there when the game only sorta worked for me I figured "well someone else has to have made a quality movie hacking simulator" and the answer was "not really no". It seemed really clear that Onlink really understood what made these things fun, and gave them depth, so I hope you can pull it off.
  - oneshtein 3y ago
    Can we translate it into our native language?
    - Vertette 3y ago
      Not sure how easy that is but you can ask on the Uplink Discord or make a post on the Ferrous Moon forums.

Kyuuketsuki 3y ago

There hasn't been a release in a while, but onlink is still in active development.

drexlspivey 3y ago
Last update: March 2019. Not really active
- Kyuuketsuki 3y ago
  Like I said, no release in a while. I'm the original author. There's one other that works on code, and Vert (this blog) has been a tremendous help with asset updates. Turns out however that rewriting the graphical engine takes a while.
  - drexlspivey 3y ago
    Ever considered open sourcing it? Pretty sure some people will contribute, it’s an iconic game
    - Kyuuketsuki 3y ago
      Considered, yes, but Uplink is not open source, and it's not my right to do it either. I know the source is generally "out there" but the legality of that is murky.
      - chongli 3y ago
        Have you tried reaching out to Chris DeLay and asking him about it? He might be okay with it!
      - stavros 3y ago
        Does Onlink use any of the Uplink source, or is it written entirely from scratch? If the latter, it's definitely within your rights to open-source.
  - Eji1700 3y ago
    Already said it to vert, but just wanted to say I wish you luck. Onlink was tapping into a niche that I think is super under explored and you clearly understood what was actually fun about it.

suby 3y ago

Apparently the author of the article worked on onlink, https://vertette.github.io/post/helloworld https://vertette.github.io/post/helloworld.

Vertette 3y ago
Yeah, I'm still working on that! It's making lots of exciting progress we can't wait to show people.
- Eji1700 3y ago
  Holy shit i'm super excited to hear that. I remember joining the forums (ferrous moon?) forever ago just to see if I could get help with some bugs and figure out how to get past the harder hacking missions. From there when the game only sorta worked for me I figured "well someone else has to have made a quality movie hacking simulator" and the answer was "not really no". It seemed really clear that Onlink really understood what made these things fun, and gave them depth, so I hope you can pull it off.
- oneshtein 3y ago
  Can we translate it into our native language?
  - Vertette 3y ago
    Not sure how easy that is but you can ask on the Uplink Discord or make a post on the Ferrous Moon forums.