Welcome to the "Is 'virality' even a word?" edition of the podcast. Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online.

Starting this month, you can also listen/watch over on YouTube!

Today, we've released "Remote Terminal", which is the 6th job in "Headless Swarm", our first paid season of story in Exploit: Zero Day.

From sk3tch's introductory message to you, the player:

Hey, uh, what's up with your whole drone hacker situation? I'm watching the local news and the Charlotte airport is being buzzed by, like, twenty-three civilian drones? It's... kind of a big deal and the local news has progressed from "local human interest story" to "waiting for a report from Homeland Security."

Someone's trying to scare people, and I think we both know who.

Games mean things. It's unavoidable with any art form that meaning and feeling arises from a work. However, game design involves enough details and interlocking parts that it's easy for the design to become muddled and say something that's either unclear or different from what the designer ...

Earlier this week, we updated Exploit: Zero Day to 0.49.0 as part of the "Acid Burn" release. Changes include:

• We've added social media thumbnails to pages that didn't already have them.
• We now automatically ignore/unignore users on the forums when blocking through EZD account pages ...

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 ...

Merry Chrimmus! Y'all know it's a special episode because I gave it a proper title. Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online.

This month's episode is special because we're joined by Dr. Lucy Arnold of Liminal Consulting. She designed the community survey that we ran this fall, and hopped into the podcast to talk about her initial reading of the results. You can find her over on Twitter or reach out to her via email.

We’ve updated  Exploit: Zero Day  to 0.48.0 as part of the "Acid Burn" release. Changes include:

• Upgrade back-end code to Python 3
• Delay destruction of solved systems to allow solution sound to finish
• Fix ghost nodes remaining when deleting nodes with multiple backlinks
• Miscellaneous code style cleanups ...

Happy November! Listen to this month's episode below or read the transcript online.

We cover a bunch of fun things:

• Our ongoing community survey over at futureproofgames.com/2019survey! Help spread the word and get the survey out to folks you know. Taking the survey gets you a copy ...

In writing for Exploit: Zero Day, we need to have characters using hacking techniques that aren't too far off what we think is possible. Thing is, neither of us are (or have ever been) hackers.

I (Melissa), however, have some specific sources I use to seed ideas for tactics characters might use: cybersecurity news.

It sounds boring, like reading dry academic papers of new tweaks on cryptographic techniques. Or ho-hum, like yet another hospital attacked with ransomware.

But not only are there some unusual events going on, there are also witty commentary, well-crafted journalism, and surprisingly science fictiony techniques at play. It's pretty fascinating to keep up on, even if you aren't specifically writing in the cyberpunk genre.

So here's where I get my news in a pretty low-key way:

We’ve updated  Exploit: Zero Day  to 0.47.0 as part of the "Acid Burn" release. Changes include:

• System cost is now updated in real-time when adding linked nodes (original report)
• Systems should no longer overlap the edit toolbar at maximum size (original report)
• Jobs can now have disqualifying ...