[LD27] "Hackfield" - the ultimate cyberspace hack simulator!

[Katamori]

Hackfield is a hacker-simulator game, influenced by Deus Ex and Uplink. It takes place on an imaginery future, where Internet has restricted and traced way to use and an open-source professional hacker program was made for people to prevent it.

The question is that: what can you find in the deepest memory blocks?

Features:
- 50 levels, each with procedurally generated maps
- ridiculously simple game mechanics
- 10 difficulty levels
- procedurally generated name for all the computers (it has some silly combinations, though, but hey, what do you expect in 48 hours?)
- minimaldesign for graphics

Game language: LUA
Special libs: LOVE
Graphics: Paint.NET
Sounds: SFXR
Font: Silkscreen Expanded (not my own stuff)

Source contains every files that is used in the game, and even some that isn't.

Trivia: my original idea for LD#27 was dropped, so it was made in ~26 hours only.

Important informations:
- Gameplay is explained in messages at the bottom of the screen while playing on levels.
- Game was finished in hurry, so expect bugs. You have been warned.

Known bugs:
- pressing WASD too quickly may make you enter into solid objects
- standing on exit while not all the terminals are visited makes second counter get negative value (in this case levels are not regenerated anymore, which makes some maps impossible to beat)
- awful grammar mistakes. Seriously. Trust me, I know about them.

Ludum Dare entry page: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-da ... &uid=25228
Windows executable: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rdxmxs0lixf8g ... utable.zip
Source code and files: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6bzdi04pd7686co/Source.zip

LOVE file is attached.

This is my second LÖVE-supported game, and there are plans to expand it to a more complex game. First one is available here =)

[Ranguna259]

Have you seen Uplink ?

[Katamori]

Have you seen Uplink ?

Have you seen the first line of the post?

"Hackfield is a hacker-simulator game, influenced by Deus Ex AND UPLINK."

Great game by the way, I seriously love it. There's possible that Hackfield is not more than a lowbudget ripoff of Uplink, but even in this case, I'm satisfied with my creation.

[baconhawka7x]

Hmm, doesn't start on my mac.

[Davidobot]

Link us the ld page so we can rate it! Looks awesome btw.

[Ranguna259]

Have you seen the first line of the post?

"Hackfield is a hacker-simulator game, influenced by Deus Ex AND UPLINK."

Great game by the way, I seriously love it. There's possible that Hackfield is not more than a lowbudget ripoff of Uplink, but even in this case, I'm satisfied with my creation.

Wow, totally missed half of the first post, hahaha sorry about that

Even if you say it's a lowbudget ripoff the game is quite good, nice work

[vladgalay]

It doesn't seem to start on my PC. When i try to launch this game, nothing happens =\

[Katamori]

Have you seen the first line of the post?

"Hackfield is a hacker-simulator game, influenced by Deus Ex AND UPLINK."

Great game by the way, I seriously love it. There's possible that Hackfield is not more than a lowbudget ripoff of Uplink, but even in this case, I'm satisfied with my creation.

Wow, totally missed half of the first post, hahaha sorry about that

Even if you say it's a lowbudget ripoff the game is quite good, nice work

In fact, I think my game is unique. I just assume that some Uplink players may know that it's just a ripoff. Thank you anyway!

Link us the ld page so we can rate it! Looks awesome btw.

Thanks! For rating, go here! OP is also gonna be refreshed.

It doesn't seem to start on my PC. When i try to launch this game, nothing happens =\

Hmm, doesn't start on my mac.

I have no idea, guys :/ it was way too far to be tested on Mac, but on my Windows XP, it runs well. Both the .love and the .exe

[Robin]

This is the error:

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Error: [string "boot.lua"]:318: Could not set screen mode
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'error'
	[string "boot.lua"]:318: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:227>
	[C]: in function 'xpcall'

The problem is in your conf.lua:

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    t.screen.width = 1280     -- The window width (number)
    t.screen.height = 1024      -- The window height (number)
    t.screen.fullscreen = true -- Enable fullscreen (boolean)

My monitor is 1600x800, so it can't set the resolution to 1280x1024.

[Katamori]

I didn't expect that it may have a problem for some people. Next time I won't use fullscreen mode then. Or at least, I'm gonna make it optional.