![]() Taking elements from the MUDs of yore, this one says you’ll need to “use real-world hacking skills (social engineering, cracking, research, scripting.) for power and influence in the M.U.D. A plot which reminds me of the gentle Digital: A Love Story.īut it’s the promise of a “user-created multiplayer world” hidden beneath all the codes and commands that has me hacking through its tutorial right now. There you’ll meet other lesser AIs and work together to figure it all out. To escape you have to prove yourself to The Trust – an all-powerful AI that runs things. There’s a single-player element to it as you start off stuck in a virtual LAN unable to reach the greater internet. Like a lot of other terminal-based hackers, you’ll have to type commands, execute scripts, guess passwords and pilfer money by transferring it electronically to your own shell accounts. Go put on your best hacker sunglasses and come back to watch the trailer. Hackmud is a ‘massively-multiplayer hacking sim’ and it has just been released. That vision of multiplayer digital trespass sadly did not come to pass, but perhaps this can scratch that cyperpunk itch. The creator said this was a hangover from an unfinished multiplayer mode, whereby players could freak each other out by opening their opponents’ CD trays. One of the silly hidden features of Hacknet was the ability to open your own CD tray with a typed command. ![]()
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