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Flash will soon be dead. Future Proof Games, and the game community in general, owes an enormous debt to the Flash development zeitgeist of roughly 2004-2014. My (Gregory's) Flash games have led to two different FPG releases: Exploit: Zero Day and "The Majesty of Colors" Remastered. However, most browsers' ...
Exploit: Zero Day is now available as a free, open alpha to anyone who registers at exploitzeroday.com. Our web game with living story about social justice hacktivism comes with a season of free story for everyone, as well as the ability to make and share puzzles that represent servers ...
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We've finished our "The Plague" release of Exploit: Zero Day! This is the final major release before we open EZD to the public, and follows "Cereal Killer".
The complete feature list of The Plague:
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We're happy to announce the completion of another Exploit: Zero Day named release. Implementation on "Cereal Killer" is done!
"Cereal Killer" contained some user-facing fixes as well as some stuff behind-the-scenes. The changelist includes:
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We're pleased to announce that we've finished our Crash Override release of Exploit: Zero Day! This was a major step in resuming "Headless Swarm" development.
Per the roadmap, this was largely behind the scenes stuff, but here's the complete feature list:
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In keeping with our recent news, we're resuming more active work on EZD. We've updated Exploit: Zero Day to 0.31.0:
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If you listened to our most recent podcast, you heard us talk about what we've been up to in our work on Exploit: Zero Day. We haven't worked much on our social puzzle game about hacktivism for a while; we've been focusing instead on "The Majesty of ...
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We launched the Alpha of Exploit: Zero Day on December 22, 2014, but we haven't posted a "state of the union" type of post since February.
In that time, we've gotten a lot done, including finishing the features that allow us to craft stories and releasing some early story content.
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When we decided to go to the GDC this year, we knew we wanted to give out access codes to Exploit: Zero Day when we spoke to people. The easiest way to give out a code to EZD is with a link that includes the code and will guide the player to register, then apply the code.
I set out to create labels containing both a QR code and a shortlink that could be affixed to the back of our business cards. It took quite a bit of trial and error to make this process smooth, but a combination of a Google Spreadsheet, Excel, and Microsoft Word 2013/365 got the job done. Unfortunately, this process won't work with Word 2007 or 2010.
All this work is worth it, though, to have the back of my business card look like this:
Join me on this sweet and technical ride of mail merging.
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I've just finished creating puzzles for the latest piece of free content in Exploit: Zero Day, and it was my first time doing a considered design of puzzles. I wanted a few levels of difficulty, but for puzzles to not just become obnoxious as the difficulty increased.
The puzzles I've designed will be going live later this week, and hopefully folks will like them. I iterated quite a bit on some of them as I tried out different tactics, especially the puzzle pictured with this post.
When it was all said and done—which took a while, since I was new to it—I was able to distill the tactics I used into this handy-dandy list.
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