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Congrats on launching!

I'll be honest, when I clicked and got a login page I thought "is this what we're supposed to hack?" ;)

I second the recommendation below to add some pictures or a video to show what you're getting into. A lot of people will not register a new account when they don't know what they're getting.

I want the game to have a "this is not a game" feel in the sense that it has no points, bonuses, levels, so that the player, even thou it's obvious that it is a game, feels like a real hacker.

But you have a point, and I will add some info to the login page. Thanks for the feedback!

Second the "ok let's get through this login page" instinct haha. I'd be curious to see how many people were trying basic sql injections thinking they were playing the game already.

I just tried "admin:admin" and "admin:password" and "root:root" and "root:password" just instinctively.

The site reminded me of "hackthissite"

but did you try:

    password' OR 'a'='a

Wow yeah. Haha I spent some time going through the motions and spinning wheels in the mud before I realized it must not have been a part of the game. :P

Quick feedback and warning:

If you're running a piece of software and don't have enough blocks for installing the next version, it will eat your newer software and do nothing :(

Source: Ate my v3 Network Scanner. RIP my little software.

sounds like a bug, it doesn't show up in the SOFTWARE VERSIONS page?

It was in Available, I clicked Install with insufficient storage and it ate it. The store shows as though I can purchase it again and it's not in SOFTWARE VERSIONS.

Maybe you could make it up like a news article or something to keep the flair of the game.

nice idea!!

I thought the same thing! I started looking at the page source :D

That is what I think right now... when I try to register, I get "gateway full, register closed".

Side project that I've been working on and off for the last... 6 years maybe. Hope you enjoy it!

I've just created an account and begin to try this game.

You should maybe (I know, it's boring) put some pictures or a video to show what it's all about.

And congrats BTW :)

Pretty cool, here is an hash cracker in Ruby for the lazy:

    a = [2, 15, 11, 22, 16, 3, 6, 21]; c = 72; while (b = a.shuffle.sample(rand(a.size)); b.inject(&:+) != c); end; p b

haha, this should be considered cheating, but since you are "hacking it", it's fine :D

lol I thought that it was expected to write ancillary software to solve the hacking games.

Was about to start python to decypher the password sequence when I saw it turn green.

I contemplated making a game like that. Never got around to it.

Try hackmud :)

Hey tulsidas, great work on the game, looks great. I'm the author of Hacker Experience (https://hackerexperience.com), an open source RTS MMO location-based hacking simulation. We are open for suggestions and contributions. If you'd like to talk a little bit about these games (I'm a big fan of them) and other stuff, please drop me a line.

Level One: Hack into this fictitious bank's web site and transfer all the funds to this fictitious account. I know the web site looks real, right down to the correct URL, but that's just part of the game. For real.

Either get rid of the sounds or have some in the beginning with a chance to turn them off. Playing a sound on step 5 of the tutorial when a hash fails is not cool - I almost jumped out of my chair.

I might come back when it doesn't take 15 seconds of thinking every time I click a button.

FYI there's a summary and video on the root domain: https://h4ck1t.com

Edit:

Turn your speakers down when you play the video if you don't like modem sounds.

This game looks fun. Reminds me a little of Uplink from 2001 (https://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/).

Glad you like it! Uplink is one of the (many) sources of inspiration for this game

Sweet game! Congrats on the launch. I'll definitely be playing more.

Would love to get a writeup about the tech and the game design decisions/tradeoffs you've made along the way.

Thanks! Glad you like it.

Good idea, I'll write a blog post about this.

This reminds me a retro-hack-game: http://telehack.com/

Telehack is also a multiplayer hack game featuring tons of BBS systems, simulated uunet hosts, and a chat room. Available via http or telnet.

You are welcome to `finger mayli@telehack.com`.

Love the interface and the ~~game~~ as well! Perhaps HN influx made the server slow but I am having fun.

I imagine you must have seen it and drawn some inspiration, but https://www.hackthissite.org/ was a favorite of mine. Made an account and checking it out. Thanks!

Hey love the style!

I went through 4 steps of the tutorial and I found myself wanting to do more so good job! I'll try a bit more on lunch break :)

thanks! really excited to hear you like it!

any questions or feedback feel free to PM me

I'm at step 12 and going on! Nice game, I guess it's a little bit slow now 'cause of HN but it's gonna stabilize :)

I am curious, the IPs throughout the game are IPv6 syntax but I have yet to see an IP with hex chars in it. Are there use for the IPv6 later on?

I was confused as to why 4.1.5.3.2 wasn't working until I noticed the use of ":".

Interesting. The Uplink inspiration is a plus in my book.

However, this manages to hard-lock Firefox so thoroughly that I can't even switch out of X11 to another VT to try to kill firefox, leaving the only option to reboot.

I'll fiddle with it later to find out what's causing that.

Hey, cool idea. I like the first few minutes of play. I like the retro/wargames/hacker look :)

Played SlaveHack as a kid. This seems pretty similar. Cool project, will see how it compares.

slavehack was awesome!

Looks like HN hugged it too hard.

hehe, indeed! but it was just me deploying a quick fix, it's back now!

I like it but you must be getting hammered... everything loads painfully slow

indeed! :)

Stuck on step 8, failed to crack the "pass" thing once (what do I even do there?) and now it says "No route to 01:55:53:35:13" which is the IP I discovered and NMAPped. Now what?

check here for info on how to crack the password vulnerability: http://gateway.h4ck1t.com/man/nmap/PASS

you lost that node, you'll need to run netscan and try again with another one

Anyone know if you can actually type for the PASS and ARP minigames? The keypad is killing me (and I'm a few minutes away from getting another shot lol)

Found answer (frustratingly): no you cannot.

new gateway (game server) opened! http://gateway2.h4ck1t.com

This was very fun. I finished all the levels and I also discovered the secret ones. :O

this is awesome, really like the ui. as others mentioned, the only thing i'd suggest is to add a little "about" section or something on the front page to let people know what they are getting into :)

will do, thanks for the feedback! hope you enjoy the game

The best part is the fact that there is a new user's tutorial in place.

Congratz!! Awesome game! =)

thanks! hope you like it!

We killed it, guys! Just went down for me.

I was redeploying a quick fix, it's back!

Thanks! This is wonderful!

"Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in." https://twitter.com/stahnma/status/634849376343429120

Any chance you'd release the source?

Feels like slavehack in a way.

Registration closed :(

Registrations closed?

Status 500... did somebody hack it?

Edit/spez: nevermind, it's back

erm.

where is the source code?

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