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Show HN: H4ck 1t, multiplayer hacking game

by tulsidas on 12/1/16, 2:16 PM with 65 comments

  • by JasonSage on 12/1/16, 3:34 PM

    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.

  • by tulsidas on 12/1/16, 2:28 PM

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

  • by dorianm on 12/1/16, 3:57 PM

    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

  • by napsterbr on 12/1/16, 6:52 PM

    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.

  • by clifanatic on 12/1/16, 8:11 PM

    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.

  • by jweather on 12/1/16, 5:37 PM

    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.

  • by jsingleton on 12/1/16, 4:39 PM

    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/).

  • by drhayes9 on 12/1/16, 5:04 PM

    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.

  • by mayli on 12/1/16, 11:20 PM

    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`.

  • by prashnts on 12/1/16, 4:42 PM

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

  • by loganbertram on 12/1/16, 8:35 PM

    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!

  • by Cafey on 12/1/16, 3:35 PM

    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 :)

  • by korethr on 12/2/16, 10:15 PM

    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.

  • by calebm on 12/1/16, 5:35 PM

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

  • by emerongi on 12/1/16, 4:15 PM

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

  • by alexdumitru on 12/1/16, 4:29 PM

    Looks like HN hugged it too hard.

  • by KiDD on 12/1/16, 6:47 PM

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

  • by jweather on 12/1/16, 6:10 PM

    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?

  • by BWStearns on 12/1/16, 9:00 PM

    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)

  • by tulsidas on 12/2/16, 1:54 PM

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

  • by dwaxe on 12/2/16, 4:29 PM

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

  • by johnnycarcin on 12/1/16, 3:54 PM

    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 :)

  • by desci on 12/1/16, 8:06 PM

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

  • by martincerdeira on 12/1/16, 4:31 PM

    Congratz!! Awesome game! =)

  • by shashwat986 on 12/1/16, 4:29 PM

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

  • by kangus on 12/1/16, 7:16 PM

    Any chance you'd release the source?

  • by AtheistOfFail on 12/1/16, 5:45 PM

    Feels like slavehack in a way.

  • by gauthamilango on 12/3/16, 1:59 PM

    Registration closed :(

  • by FezVrasta on 12/3/16, 3:24 PM

    Registrations closed?

  • by defgeneric on 12/1/16, 7:04 PM

    Status 500... did somebody hack it?

    Edit/spez: nevermind, it's back

  • by desci on 12/1/16, 6:39 PM

    erm.

    where is the source code?