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We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.
Changes:
If you're seeing ...
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We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.
Changes:
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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 ...
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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?
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We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.
Changes:
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We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.
Changes:
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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 ...
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2015 was a weird year. Somewhere in that year is a typical tale of an indie game studio underestimating project timelines and changing directions based on surprises and things they learned.
But I want to talk about budgets.
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We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.
Changes:
If you're seeing this but ...
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We've updated Exploit: Zero Day as part of our Alpha Two phase of development.
Changes in 0.20.2 and 0.20.3:
