{"author_link":"\/author\/madpew\/","author_name":"madpew","author_uid":"2196","comments":[{"author_name":"Covenant","author_uid":"326","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 7:56am","epoch":1282549860,"text":"The game is well done, although it's bitch hard... : Don't think it suits the theme, though, but even so... it was fun playing! :)"},{"author_name":"mathias","author_uid":"539","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 8:21am","epoch":1282551360,"text":"Hell yeah.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>************** Ausnahmetext **************\r<br\/>System.InvalidOperationException: Die Sequenz enth&auml;lt mehrere &uuml;bereinstimmende Elemente.\r<br\/>   bei System.Linq.Enumerable.Single[TSource](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 predicate)\r<br\/>   bei LD18.Achievements.GetTitle()\r<br\/>   bei LD18.WinForm..ctor()\r<br\/>   bei LD18.GameController.ProcessReward(Int32 Reward)\r<br\/>   bei LD18.pnmServerControl.Picture_DoubleClick(Object sender, EventArgs e)\r<br\/>   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnDoubleClick(EventArgs e)\r<br\/>   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message&amp; m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)\r<br\/>   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message&amp; m)\r<br\/>   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message&amp; m)\r<br\/>   bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message&amp; m)\r<br\/>   bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)"},{"author_name":"hcs","author_uid":"2520","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 10:07am","epoch":1282557720,"text":"Fun! I suck at Mastermind but it stayed interesting. Some different layouts for the route might have been nice."},{"author_name":"Jhelle","author_uid":"2232","time":"Aug 23, 2010 @ 11:28am","epoch":1282562580,"text":"I commend your effort but I didn't feel the fun factor here. Audio was very well done though and I liked the server names :)"},{"author_name":"pdyxs","author_uid":"2440","time":"Aug 24, 2010 @ 2:30am","epoch":1282616700,"text":"Really liked this game, though it did remind me a bit of the plumbing from bioshock. Audio was excellent as well.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Was winning supposed to generate an error?"},{"author_name":"madpew","author_uid":"2196","time":"Aug 24, 2010 @ 3:01am","epoch":1282618560,"text":"pdyxs, no it's not supposed to be like this.\r<br\/>The error is fixed in the patched version. (It only happens when you got 2 achievements with the same score, so the game crashes on deciding which rank to use :D)\r<br\/>It's still kinda funny getting a error on the winning screen of a hack-game :) Thanks for your comment and I'm glad you liked it."},{"author_name":"Danik","author_uid":"2311","time":"Aug 24, 2010 @ 8:04am","epoch":1282636740,"text":"Fun game, takes a bit more thinking than most. The 5-digit mastermind puzzels were challenging!"},{"author_name":"goffmog","author_uid":"2011","time":"Aug 25, 2010 @ 2:11am","epoch":1282701960,"text":"Definitely one I will go back to to try and beat! One thing Hey that's a fun game, it's hard to begin with but after you hack your first box it really starts to flow. I did have a couple of frustrated restarts before I could figure out how to play though since I didn't realise you had to double click the servers :) Clever interpretation of the theme."},{"author_name":"KilledByAPixel","author_uid":"2075","time":"Aug 25, 2010 @ 5:21pm","epoch":1282756560,"text":"Pretty cool idea.  Those master mind puzzles were tough, I had to give up at the 5 digit one.  Maybe whenever you get a new ~ or ! it gives you a little more time?  I think that could add to the tension while also giving players more time."},{"author_name":"madpew","author_uid":"2196","time":"Aug 26, 2010 @ 1:53am","epoch":1282787280,"text":"KilledByAPixel, you can buy additional seconds in the market (taking the red pill). It's still hard though.\r<br\/>I already doubled the times after noticing noone else than me can succeed. Seems like it's still too fast. Lesson learned :)"},{"author_name":"skintkingle","author_uid":"1579","time":"Aug 26, 2010 @ 10:03am","epoch":1282816680,"text":"Instant crash, looks like i don't have a dependency installed that you used.\r<br\/>Care to post WHAT needs to be installed?"},{"author_name":"madpew","author_uid":"2196","time":"Aug 26, 2010 @ 11:56am","epoch":1282823460,"text":"Oh, I thought by now everyone should have .Net Framework 3.5 installed as 4.0 already came by Windows Update :D\r<br\/>here you go: http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325fd-ae52-4e35-b531-508d977d32a6&amp;displaylang=en"},{"author_name":"Spooner","author_uid":"2552","time":"Aug 27, 2010 @ 11:33am","epoch":1282908480,"text":"Pipe-hacking lifted straight from Alien Swarm (and others) and Mastermind, but at least put together in a nice package. My primitive ape brain couldn't hack fast enough to finish the game, but at least that means it had a decent scaling difficulty.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Wherefor art thou, Theme?"},{"author_name":"madpew","author_uid":"2196","time":"Aug 27, 2010 @ 12:00pm","epoch":1282910100,"text":"well about the theme I used the enemies (the server) as a weapon against other servers. (as you need X Servers\/Bandwidth to hack another one) - lil bit abstract.\r<br\/>Can't blame you for that. btw. Alien Swarm was the inspiration for the pipe-hacks :D"},{"author_name":"pekuja","author_uid":"110","time":"Aug 30, 2010 @ 5:50pm","epoch":1283190300,"text":"A pretty good hacking game. Reminded me a lot of Uplink. I liked the voice samples and music too. The only problems were that I never quite understood how the hacking requirements worked, or when I would ever need a firewall. The game also crashed when I hacked 4chan."},{"author_name":"eli","author_uid":"1395","time":"Sep 2, 2010 @ 10:42am","epoch":1283423820,"text":"Hacking music WIN! Great job on the coolness factor.\r<br\/>Really good look and feel. I'd really like a more shallow learning curve. Also, the visual puzzle was much cooler than the number one."},{"author_name":"Martoon","author_uid":"2355","time":"Sep 3, 2010 @ 10:50pm","epoch":1283553900,"text":"Crashes when launching.  I have .Net Framework 4.0, so not sure what the problem is.  Didn't vote since I can't run it."},{"author_name":"sirGustav","author_uid":"1135","time":"Sep 6, 2010 @ 2:15pm","epoch":1283782200,"text":"interesting, but really hard... :("},{"author_name":"Scramasax","author_uid":"2466","time":"Sep 6, 2010 @ 4:22pm","epoch":1283789820,"text":"Too hard."}],"images":["ld18\/2196-35e7f5346c3f706fccec1100f87c07ed.jpg","ld18\/2196-d7d359242e65a722f7e6ceed2c820933.jpg","ld18\/2196-f13305a57150167b8e31bb3d1bc5d7ec.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/Hacking4Dummies.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/Hacking4DummiesPatched_Src.zip","text":"Patched-Src"},{"url":"http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/Hacking4DummiesPatched.zip","text":"Patched-Bin"},{"url":"http:\/\/pixelsiege.net\/Hacking4Dummies_Src.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"33696","g_author":"2196","g_event":"LD18","g_eventkey":"4","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"33726","g_title":"Hacking4Dummies","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"66","g_commentcount":"19","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/22150\/2196-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/22150\/2196-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/22150\/2196-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"As a hacker you need to take over servers, to use their powers to hack more servers. Dunno if that fits the theme.\r\nI'm happy I finished and I'm some kind of proud of the voice-acting \/ music \/gfx stuff :D\r\nthanks 4 watching\r\n\r\nBugfixes applied. Updated Binary and Source available.<\/p>","title":"Hacking4Dummies"}