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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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:

• Add store payment via PayPal (requested by player @omega12)
• Moderation tool: ...

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This month's episode is a little more technical than usual, probably. We talk about:

• A slew of technical maintenance that fell on us
• The django-presskit release
• Business taxes (Melissa's a nerd)
• Headless Swarm writing

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Two big things have happened in the last month:

• The "Cereal Killer" release of Exploit: Zero Day
• The release of "Ace Systems Go!"

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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:

• The addition of clusters to account pages
• Better emails and the option to subscribe to our ...

"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:

• Sales ...

Part of our work to make Exploit: Zero Day easier for us to maintain and update was making a job editor for ourselves. Previously, we'd been creating jobs (the storyline missions for the player) using the Django admin interface, which is very nice but makes it difficult to have a ...

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We talk about:

• Still Waters Run Deep, Part 2, the conclusion!
• The Rosette Diceless supplemental material for additional gameplay options or advice
• Writing Headless Swarm
• Our new Future Proof Plays series, where we ...

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We talk about:

1. "Still Waters Run Deep", the Rosette Diceless one-shot (now two-shot) that Melissa ran on September 30 (embedded below);
2. Some work Gregory is doing with Lita and artificial intelligence of ...