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September 29

Development Update 160929

First off: THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!

It is officially one week since launch. I am the only dev on this project and I am so amazingly overworked at the moment. <3
The servers have been stable for several days, and players are hacking in so many ways!
They are spoofing, scripting, deceiving, lying, and fighting their way to victory!
MUDWAR-1 has already come and gone, with new intrigue developing every day--

However, I can't keep up with players right now! Which means I can't make new features and fix balance issues!

Here are ways YOU can help with my workload:

-> Help new players wherever you can! In game, steam forums, game forums, discord, wherever there are people!

-> !!DO NOT BREAK THE SANDBOX!! <--

- there are so many ways to hack this game INSIDE the game, please help me by not doing it 'outside the game'
- do not create custom clients
- do not write scripts that crash other player's clients
- do not write scripts that invalidate the "trustedness" of scripts.trust scripts
- contact support@hackmud.com if you see any of these issues

MANY of these things will be available and approved in the future. I just can't handle the workload right now.

-> !!DO NOT CREATE MORE WORK FOR ME!! <-

Violators will be removed temporarily or permanently.

Please contact support@hackmud.com if you have any questions about this.

Happy Hacking!
Sean

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NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BUYERS

I am a solo dev on this project. There WERE many server load issues at launch that have now been solved. That being said; this game is INCREDIBLY complex to maintain, and there will be many game-wide issues in the future. These issues will most likely be in-game player discovered exploits. THIS IS PART OF THE GAME!

As long as there are servers running the game, there will be balance patches and fixes. Read AS MUCH AS YOU CAN about the game and player's experiences before making your purchase decision.

Excited to have you in game.

Happy Hacking!

Best,
Sean

About This Game

h a c k m u d is a cyberpunk themed text-based hacking simulator for intel-compatible personal home computers. Get lost in a deep and complex world full of challenging puzzles as you engage in a rich narrative riddled with intrigue and deception.

Learn who you can trust as you make friends and enemies exploring the depths of abandoned future internet cyber-structure
Prove your worth to cyber-society by navigating the trials laid out for you by the Multi-User Domain’s governing super-intelligence, ‘The Trust’
‘Patch into the hardline’ to access other users’ protected systems and steal their digital goods
Demonstrate hunger for power, flexibility of thought, and keen strategy to convince The Trust of your value and escape the virtual L.A.N.
Let the text-based interface transport you back to the early internet-era when computing was full of discovery
Create and destroy digital empires while exploring the constantly evolving user-created multiplayer world
Use real-world hacking skills (social engineering, cracking, research, scripting...) for power and influence in the M.U.D. at large

FEATURES:

A deep, nuanced and engaging storyline full of discovery that will keep you guessing
Encourages deep exploration and testing the limits of the system through rich side-content
An intuitive retro-futuristic text-based computing interface that escalates to advanced with glitches, hidden commands, and arcane syntax
90s film style ‘hacking mode,’ for when you need to get some ‘serious’ hacking done
An original electronic soundtrack which will chill you out while exploring or amp you up when the pressure’s on
Persistent and constantly-evolving game universe powered by an almost endless stream of user created tools, puzzles, traps and much more
A fluid and organic class system determined by the currently loaded upgrades on your system
A fully scriptable in-game world with a global player-based economy of code and in-game botting
Regular balance patches to keep the game fun and engaging for players of all styles and at all levels of experience

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Minimum:

OS: Windows 7
Memory: 2 GB RAM
DirectX: Version 10

Minimum:

OS: Mac OS 10.9
Memory: 2 GB RAM

Minimum:

Memory: 2 GB RAM

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AnarchyLime

628 products in account

2 reviews

Posted: October 3

I have to throw in a positive review about this game. It's an amazing accomplishment for one man to deliver. My favorite part is how this game turns human trust into a currency all of its own.

If you're looking for something mildly intersting to burn a few hours, then keep on looking. If you don't like puzzly type situations, and are not interested in reading text (a whole lot of text), then keep on looking. There is a good size learning curve. It takes a while to get through the tutorial/introduction, and it is not a cake walk where your hand is held tightly while you learn how to wasd.

After the intro (which takes a few hours) you're treated to an MMO that is refreshingly different. You have to explore and ask questions. You will be doing A LOT OF TYPING. I know many people don't know where the curyly braces are on their keyboards, but you'll need those too.

To the non-coders out there: this game is totally playable. Put on your thinking hat. Figure out a way to scam people. This is an mmo. It's social. Practice your social engineering!

For my fellow coders out there, this game is great. It's a puzzle all on it's own to fit your first script into 500 characters. Now I'm not the most familiar with javascript, but it is utilizing all the cool ES6 features. Found some friendly people that have helped with some pointers, and they'll help you too if you can find them!

Can't wait to see how this game evolves, and see how the commutiy adapts!

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Ice_

349 products in account

7 reviews

Posted: October 4

The game has great single-player experience. Multiplayer confuses a lot of people and I was one of them because there was not much information to go on but after searching google and youtube, I started getting the hang of it.
People complain that people who do know how to code is using "überscripts that farm t1 npcs". It's not true. Code WILL make it a lot faster and easier (I wrote a script that broke all "ez locks" for example) but there are so many npcs you can find (if you know how to find them) and there is no way a script can automatically "farm". People who complain must be really slow as I have only ONCE stumbled upon a list of already hacked npcs.

The multiplayer part feels like it's more focused on coding so I'm not sure that someone who doesn't code or at least don't want to code should get this game. It could get a bit repetitive just trying to do manual hacks all the time. The beauty of this game (at least for me) is the coding part. It's fun and rewarding.
There are scripts out there that can help you if you do a bit of search, even if you are not a coder, but the really good ones are most likely private so you'll either have to learn how to code, join a friendly corp or use public scripts (within the game) that other people have uploaded - some of them are nasty GC stealing scripts though so tread carefully.

I do recommend this game if you don't mind a bit of coding.

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Sleepwalker (Chaotic_Neutral)

76 products in account

3 reviews

Posted: October 3

Very interesting game with an even more interesting multiplayer mode.
Would recommend to people with the interest and spare time to learn JavaScript in order to be able to "step up" their game

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The Good Sir Hatter

353 products in account

9 reviews

Posted: October 4

This game is crack cocaine. I'm losing control of my life. S e n d H e l p.

Update: Might as well give some real impressions on the game so far.

I recommend this with some caveats:
1. You need to know how to code to fully take advantage of everything in the game
2. If you don't know how to code, you can still enjoy yourself with the game, but it'll get really repetitive really quickly if you don't do some learning
3. If you don't learn how to code and continue to play the game, you'll think it's bad.

Basically, learn how to code.

That being said, hackmud is a wonderful little sandbox that really gives you a lot of room to learn and challenge yourself. Your success is only limited by your imagination and some basic Javascript constraints. The game uses a strange progression system in which you earn things like more script slots, larger character counts, special in-game functionality, etc. You start out with one measly private script slot, a 500 character count limit (not a lot if you want to follow basic coding conventions), no money, and very little help. The tutorial is pretty long, took me probably an hour and a half to get through it, but once you're through that it just dumps you into channel 0000 and throws you to the wolves, and if you don't immediately put into practice the things you learned in the tutorial and figure out some stuff for yourself this game will eat you alive and spit you back out the other end. There are malicious scripts that take all your money, including ones linked in completely safe scripts (looking at you, info.scripting) meant to help you. People can take your account location and completely bone you for money and upgrades going into the foreseeable future, forcing you to retire the account and start fresh with nothing except your previously editted scripts which probably don't fit beginner constraints. Basically, get good or get ♥♥♥♥ed. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Mmaruda

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19 reviews

Posted: October 8

This is not a game for dumb people. Seriously, if you are dumb, don't get it. However, if you consider yourself smart, there is a L33T price for which you can find out how smart you really are.

So first of, this is a legit hacking simulator, with typing stuff like scripts, parameters and values, guessing password and all other sorts of things you see in the movies, so... not very easy. The SP part is sort of a tutorial to get you aquainted with the game mechanics, there is a bunch of puzzles here for the smart people and some easter eggs, for the smart people who like to show how smart they are by digging into stuff... with a keyboard. Once you prove to the game, that you are not a moron, you are let into the MUD part. For those who are young, and perhaps not part of the smart people, it's a text based MMO.

Here, there are other people who will prove to you that you were wrong in thinking that you are smart, because you are not, everyone is smarter than you, everyone is a master at Java Script, and everyone will steal from you, humiliate you and make fun of you just to make sure that you got the message "you are not smart... like at all".

You think I am making this a funny review? Huh? You think you are smart? Well, there are guys here who programed a casino into the game, where you can gamble, and someone even made a social network within the game, just like facebook, only better, because no advertising or kids pictures. And all those people will be helpful and tell you how to play the game (cause obviously you will not have a clue) and give you free scripts so you can hack NPCs and get filthy rich. And then, they will steal from you, make your virtual character admit on public chat that you like One Direction and still live with your mom, in the basement with all the anime cartoons.

Welcome to the L33T hacking simulator, that is more about hacking thatn any other hacking game and probably the best MMO ever created. Git gud or git rekt tryin.

Seriously though, just get the game, it's a work of genius and worth trying, even if you are not part of the smart people.
I now know I am not.

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Masturbating Canadian Man

35 products in account

11 reviews

Posted: October 5

Scam... makes itself seem like a fun, exciting MMO game during the 2-Hour tutorial(probably only that length because the dev knew people would want a refund once they realized it was nothing like the tutorial.)... when really, it's a boring piece of ♥♥♥♥ that gives you no way to even know what you're doing once you enter online mode. DO-NOT-BUY

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Lafleur

384 products in account

1 review

Posted: September 23

If you likes games like Uplink and Hacknet then you should definitely try this game.

It begins with a 3-4 hour single player tutorial which is really well done and teaches you the ropes in a clear way - while still being entertaining - before throwing you into an imposing, and initially impenetrable, multiplayer version.

Without guidance this monster of a game would be impossible to comprehend, especially for someone like me whose only experience with hacking is watching WarGames with Mathew Broderick when I was a kid. Fortunately, ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ has an amazing community.

Like... seriously.

One of the most 'famous' (i.e 'rich and clever') players just gave an hour long lesson for newcomers like me on how to start writing code. He does this several times a week. There are scripts available for free that will provide you with 'locs' (I think I got that right) to break into if you can’t figure out how to do it yet yourself. If you have a question you can just type it into chat and you will get a response within seconds... although it's always more likely to be a hint than a full solution because the community 'get it' and don't want to spoil the joy of discovery for you.

It’s important to note that I experienced all of this in the first two days after launch when the servers were pretty much on fire. However, while it is certainly frustrating to play with high amounts of lag (those negative reviews aren’t making that stuff up) it was actually kinda cool to see the (sole) developer in chat asking the same people that I was asking “what colours do c003 locks use?” to help him test out a new build of the game to fix it all.

I loved Uplink and Hacknet, but they were short, single player experiences. This is a game for people that are in it for the long haul. It will never have masses of players, but it already has a strong and dedicated fan base, and It is genuinely exciting to think about what this game will look like a year from now.

So, yeah… it’s good! Play it… maybe…. I’ll be playing it! You might not like it… but you might love it! (I can’t tell because we haven’t met.)

P.S. I downloaded Notepad++ to make a script that says “Hi, friend!” which I feel is proof that this game can teach you how to program irl.

P.P.S. I know that this review has gone on too long, but I’m not sure how to end it.

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your nan

114 products in account

15 reviews

Posted: September 26

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dylanryan

96 products in account

1 review

Posted: September 22

I don't usually review games that I play. I also don't usually play multiplayer games. Just not my style.

But ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ is different. It pushes all the right buttons for me.

This game is amazing. At first, ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ might seem simple. There are a decent sized number of puzzles built into the game, enough to keep people busy for a while (and much more to come on that front), but what makes it special to me is the interaction with other players. We can write our own puzzles, for others to solve.

And that is just the beginning. We can write games within the game. Plan and execute heists on rivals. Defend against determined attackers. And so on. If something is missing, someone with the scripting chops can write it. We needed documentation, and rather than setting up a wiki, I wrote an in-game man-page viewer. We wanted persistent notifications, so someone wrote an in-game "email" client. There are competing chat clients, each tailored to their creator's particular mindset, and we welcome more from new creators. We even have two interpreted languages written in the game, a LISP and a high-level JS-based assembly language (yes, those words all just occurred in the same sentence. I know). Why? Because we could.

And that, to me, is where the most fun is. The scripting. And that is why the core simplicity is so useful. We have the basic building blocks to do what we need to do. But we get to write the rest, to combine those blocks in new and interesting ways. And the excellent thing is, everyone thinks differently, so what seems like an obvious need to one person is something someone else wouldn't have ever thought of, but can still benefit from once it gets written.

If you enjoy writing scripts, you will love this game.

But what if you don't? Or what if you are new to programming, or never even tried? No problem. You can do virtually everything without scripting, and there are several friendly veterans who are always willing to help people out. There is plenty of content now to keep things interesting, and more is being added -- by players and the dev -- over time. And if you wish there was a script that scratched a particular itch, just ask. Maybe one of us vets will write it for you. Or if you'd prefer, we'll teach you how to write it. As ways to learn JavaScript go, I can't think of any way more fun than this!

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TheOctagon

242 products in account

28 reviews

Posted: September 24

Like Hacknet, only much more abstract, much more difficult, much more buggy. The game requires you to think outside of its own meta, and the tutorial only holds your hand insofar as to prepare you for the madness that is the multiplayer portion of the game. While there are server issues abound, such is the way of the multiplayer. Shoutout to the lone dev who had the drive to make this game. Mad props :-)

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Posted: October 9

I really want to like this game, but the initial money-gathering so you can start for real, along with the incredibly tedious hardline, which you have to enter in order to test scripts for breaking open NPC accounts, puts the promise of a game where you can write programs to explore the world on the other side of the sort of repetitive activity that we write programs in order to avoid.

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Posted: October 9

I don't normally do this sort of thing normally - reviews are best left to those with better language and eloquency than I have. But, frankly, I love this game too much not to talk about it.

ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ is a text-based terminal hacking game that features a user-driven social engineering and scripting backbone. The aim of ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ is to accumulate power and wealth. Currently, that means one of two things: Hack the biggest guy, or scam the most people.

ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ isn't perfect, but as a constantly-evolving game made by one man, it has incredibly potential, and already has a huge amount of vested interest for me.

The hacking interface is intensely immersive, with every command being inputted in javascript key:pair sets, with a somewhat-filtered 90s usenet aesthetic. It features a fantastic intro tutorial that is around an hour long at the longest, teaching you everything you'll need to know about the game's tools, and what easy mistakes one can make after leaving it.

The community base itself is exactly what you would expect from this sort of game. The main channel is flooded with ads and phishing scams, whereas the more hidden channels are rife with a mixture of altruism and cloak and dagger. The player-created corporations also end with their own private chats, complete with organizational structures such as counter-intelligence divisions, defensive/offensive coders, and so on.

However, the game is far from perfect, in its current state.

The economy is a closed system, as it stands, and the currency can be safely used to buy upgrades, which at the time of writing, cannot be stolen. There is also no way to extract scripts or database information from other players, and most of the info communicated to the community is done so by word-of-mouth rather than through patchnotes.

As well, thanks to the nature of different systems such as the market, the value of money isn't exactly stable. Players are not shown the value of an item they are given based on market value, so most simply assign an arbitrary number, gouging the prices of things regularly. As well, despite the game's developer injecting cash into the system regularly, the economy has no money sinks, meaning that in a short amount of time, money has become more and more worthless.

Despite this, I've done huge documents with my corporation laying out our plans based on confirmed updates, and already we're collecting the info we need to make our move when the time is right.

In closing, ｈａｃｋｍｕｄ is a brilliant game, but a game you should wait a month from the time of writing before buying. For reference, this review was written on the 9th of October, 2016.

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Posted: October 9

I'm not one to write review but man does this game deserve one. I'll give you the tl;dr, I love this game. This is the game I have always wanted. I would have gladly payed double the price for this game.

This game is about so much more than hacking. It is about how human beings interact on a primal level. It is about trust, deception, betrayal, infiltration. There are so many amazing things you can do in this game. The only limit is your imagination. While I'm writing a script for something I'll get 5 other amazing ideas or ways of trying to trick people. I just don't have enough time in a day to code it all :(.

That being said, if you're here for the hacking, there is plenty of that to scratch your itch as well.

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Posted: October 9

If you are even slightly interested in javascript, probably play this game. It's neat.

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Posted: October 9

it makes you feel like your a real hacker

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Posted: October 9

Aesthetically, this game really nails it for me. It's not the best looking game out there, true, but it feels "authentic". The style matches the theme that it's going for very well, and that's more than I can say for a lot of games out there. It doesn't get too flashy or too "hollywood OS": it's down to earth, it's almost sensible.

A lot of people might be put away because of this "coding" business, but let me assure you, you don't have to do anything too complicated, and you don't have to code at all. I will however point out that you can really enjoy this game if you do. You can create services for people, little games, tools, and so on.

The only thing that I hope will change in the future - I think that the game is at the point where it's thin on "official content". It's possible that it's up to the players to start filling some of it, I admit, but I do hope more content is coming eventually.

For the price of $13.37 (which is no coincidence) you can expect interesting and sometimes very challenging puzzles, a very strange community and a very unforgiving gaming experience.

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Posted: October 8

I learned how to hack into the NSA with this game.
+REP this game has earned me lots of money.

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Posted: October 8

its a very dumb game that demands you to know java just so you could write severely limited scripts for gambling or hangman games for other players to play your game as if it wasn't enough that there aren't millions of them available already on internets

your only other option, if you know java, is to write more scripts named like 'readmydiary.tcsrc55' hoping a player won't check its security level and will be hacked for attempting to access it, transferring all his money to your account.

server problems are usually temporary and you shouldn't be afraid of them as you will have a lot of time to complete the tutorial even if serious lag occurs, which isn't often.

that's pretty much it, if you don't want to spend 10 hours on youtube for understanding basic java, then you won't even be able to play this game, except for the tutorial part, which is kinda fun, and should last about 1-2 hours. note that this is an mmo not a single player game.

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Posted: October 8

I love hack mud, really good idea. except I am having a bug where the only text I can see is an outdated chat and my command line. I cant see what happens after pressing enter on a command. but my computer is stuffed anyway, I highly recommend it

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Posted: October 8

10/10 This game has boobs

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