Our cyberthriller puzzle game Exploit: Zero Day has a single puzzle type right now, which we call a Matrix puzzle. It's a minor refinement of the puzzles found in my old Flash game, Exploit. It's always been our intention to have multiple kinds of puzzles for the sake of ...

We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.

Changes:

• Fixed some bad messaging on the home cluster entry for another player's cluster list.
• Added the ability to resend failed emails.
• Systems that aren't in home clusters will no longer say "Because this system is ...

A couple of weeks ago, we attended the East Coast Game Conference in Raleigh, NC. This was our first time running a booth at a show, and we learned a lot. We were showing our in-progress game Exploit: Zero Day—running demos of the tutorial cluster and signing people up ...

We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.

Changes:

• Systems that are locked should now link to their parent cluster if you try to visit them.
• Systems that are locked no longer show in system lists.
• The server should no longer accept systems containing ...

We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.

Changes:

• Public systems and clusters may now be rated.
• You can rate systems you have solved, and clusters you've beaten. If a cluster has no core system, you must solve every system in the cluster.
• You ...

Exploit: Zero Day is a game about hacktivism. We cast players into the role of hacktivists fighting for justice against monolithic corporations and governments. In doing so, we portray hacktivism as necessary, effective, and even (to some extent) glamorous. But to treat it too lightly would be to ignore the ...

Our browser-based puzzle game about hacktivism, Exploit: Zero Day, has two major components: Jobs and player-created puzzles. Jobs are what a traditional MMO would call PVE challenges; they're story crafted by us, which you play through alone. Player-created puzzles, on the other hand, are currently the closest thing we have to PVP challenges, although in our case the goal isn't really to defeat the other player but to give them an interesting challenge.

We're currently developing currency mechanics that will serve as an extra incentive for players to create puzzles and solve other players' puzzles (we call puzzles "systems," since they represent computer systems in the game's fiction). Players will be able to earn "scryp" by solving puzzles or having puzzles in their home cluster solved, which they can spend to make their home cluster more attractive and challenging. A big question arises, however. How do we set these rewards to encourage people make the best systems they can?

We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.

Changes:

• You can now deselect a system as the core system in a cluster.

If you're seeing this but don't have Alpha access to the game yet, join the mailing list for a key when we ...

It's hard to write story for a massively multiplayer game. You need story that can be played by thousands of people. In some cases they're playing it simultaneously, and in other cases they're playing it months or years apart. You want players to feel like their efforts matter, but you ...

It's been a while since we've updated our morbid Discordian satire Ossuary, but there are some issues that have been nagging at us. We improved the introductory experience and made some additions and fixes to accessibility and usability.

For full details, check out the update news.

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