hackmud

Release Date: 2016-09-22

Developer: Drizzly Bear

Genres: Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Simulation

Price: 14.99

Use a command-line interface to explore a vast dangerous and ever-changing computer network. In the MUD trust is everything and fortunes can be stolen in a moment. Develop your programming and hacking skills as you learn to exploit security flaws and protect your winnings.Explore scripts created by other players and create your own. Build tools and forge alliances or lay traps and break bonds.Prove yourselfLearn to think like a hacker as you navigate hackmuds character-driven singleplayer tutorial. Then chart your own course through a multiplayer sandbox laden with risk and opportunity. Test real skills like cracking coding research and social engineering to thrive in a fully-scriptable player-driven economy. Remember: wealth comes and goes but knowledge endures.An echo of the futureEncounter the denizens of the crumbling abandoned internet of the far-future. Lonely cleaning drones pine for their absent users; malfunctioning weather networks ping each other across dead channels; strange new digital intelligences cohere and collapse in unindexed space.The world of the electron and the switchAn intuitive retro-cyberpunk text interface inspired by classic hacking movies takes you back to an earlier vision of the internet. An original electronic soundtrack by Lena Raine and Ryan Ike gets you in the zone.BINMAT Security Shell onlineBinary Matrix - BINMAT is hackmuds unique PVP system. Introduced in the 2.0.0 update this command-line strategy game is your attack vector and last line of defense. Challenging fully scriptable and supporting up to 32 players per match BINMAT provides a deep strategic challenge that is integrally linked to all of Hackmuds systems - from the economy to the bonds you build with other players.A digital societyhackmud is home to a thriving community of script-builders code-crackers Good Samaritans and hostile operators. Make new friends as you work together to solve complex puzzles and take part in narrative events. Discover and share clues as you draw closer to the truth that waits at the center of the network.NOTICE TO POTENTIAL PLAYERShackmud is the work of a single developer (now supported by a small team.) We want to make sure that your experience of the game is as consistent stable and fun as it can be: but this is an incredibly complex game and bugs and downtime may strike from time to time. However! As long as there are players playing the game there will be balance patches and fixes.Real hacking is unforgiving and so is hackmud. This is a game where you will inevitably lose resources and upgrades and where a mistake can cost you dearly - as such its not for everybody. Read as much as you can about the game and other players experiences before making your purchase decision.Remember: scripts.get_level is your friend.We are hard at work on new features and content and were excited about the future of hackmud.:)