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On July 10, 2019, Exploit: Zero Day will enter open alpha with free access to the base game to everyone who joins at exploitzeroday.com.
Future Proof Games' cyberthriller game where you roleplay a hacktivist by making and solving puzzles has been in closed alpha testing for years, with new ...
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Note: This episode was recorded on April 12, 2019. Some things have changed, like the fact that we've finished "The Plague." (Blame the NHL playoffs for why Melissa took forever to edit this. :-D)
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This month's episode is a little more technical than usual, probably. We talk about:
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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:
"What did we do to dramatically change the world this quarter?"
Another meeting on our part, but much shorter than December's. This a little quarterly meeting to answer the above question.
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We cover some fun topics:
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This is a special episode! You'll notice it's much longer than our usual 15 minutes—that's because we're actually having a business meeting during the podcast. It was originally recorded on December 10, 2018, but the holidays interfered a bit with editing and transcribing.
We had an ...
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We're doing something new this month: chatting about the work we're doing in a short podcast! Legitimately short: it's only 15 minutes including our dope intro/outro music.
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Our plan for the last few years has been to work on multiple projects at once. When Gregory worked full time on Future Proof projects, this kept them from feeling drained working on the same thing day in and day out. Now that we're both indefinitely part time, however, we're finding it near-impossible.
Our 2017 plans seemed reasonable. They were in line with what we've tried to do in the last couple of years, but incorporating the data from previous years: actual dev time for new Exploit: Zero Day story jobs, actual time needed for marketing, conference schedules, etc.
With that in mind, we set ourselves up to work on two high intensity projects and a low-key one: EZD, Majesty of Colors, and Rosette LARP, respectively.
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"Headless Swarm" (the first paid story for Exploit: Zero Day) now has the fourth hacking job in the season, "Internet All the Things." In this job, find out what the two antagonists are up to by hacking someone's house.
We've also published two side jobs that you might get access to as you aggravate or placate the two parties. These jobs don't have puzzles, but provide insight into a few of the characters in the EZD saga. Those were really fun to write! One is from an antagonist introduced in "Headless Swarm"; the other is Chamunda, a long-time EZD character that's a loyal employee of Samsara Digital with a low opinion of hackers.
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