HackZ Memories by Black Potion
HackZ got robbed of his memories and try to get it back. But... there is something weird
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THE GAME
HackZ Memories is a puzzle game. Try to make money and unlock the ending of the game. In this world, memories can be sold in the dark web, and hackers are feared. Unfortunatly you were robbed and don't remember anything. The only solution you got is to steal memories from other peoples. But everything will not turn exactly as you expect.
HOW TO PLAY
- Arrow keys or ASDW to move
- Right click to turn the camera
- Middle click to drag the camera
- Keys 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 to switch selection of memory (or click on it)
- Click on the cells near your character to create friends using Childhood memories.
- Each friends will generate memories through time
- You can buy new memories and upgrade in the shop
- When you use a Non-Childhood memories on a friend it will change color and begin to generate the new memory you set
- You can use a special effect of each memory type when you use it on a Non-childhood friend
- After 30 seconds a Detective will arrive to catch you, you have to logout before he arrives to you
- Try to combine special effects to unlock the secret ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teVRe4W5Ql0
EDIT Fixed bugs :
- currency spawn in shop duplicating currency
- detective use the wrong timer for speed acceleration
- Zoom is not working
- Hover Text showing when nothing to display.
CREDITS
Programming by @Chapo and Narcisse members of Black Potion
You can check our work at BlackPotion.fr !
Ratings
| Given | 77🗳️ | 75🗨️ |
EDIT: People keep talking about the audio, but I don't hear anything?
edit:
ok I know how to play now, I'm so into it. I get stuck when I unlock 'travel memories', I keep dying there, but I want to try again when I get more time. The jump to 10k is... so high!!
The zoom bug makes it harder to play too. I need to zoom out so I can lay down those memories!!!
Thank you for the feedback :)
I love the mood.
Graphics is very simple, but that's enough to be enjoyable :smile:
It is a bit upsetting that I have only 30 seconds (I know, there's some time when The Detective is walking around), I end up losing some of my memories instead of multiplying them.
Probably the best game I've played so far :smiley:
Edit:
Found a little bug - You can click with a memory on empty tile and it will work, after putting a childhood memory there it will convert
The different effects for each memory are brilliant.
The audio soundtrack was great - it has that "hacker" touch which fits the game's name.
There was a story of some sort which is always nice!
The pixelated face (and the art style in general) fits neatly with the game.
And... I have a list of feedback to the gameplay. Although they don't affect the gameplay quality much (except the last one), I think the game could be improved if these are fixed!
1. Hover text not showing up after the player unlocked more kinds of memories
2. Game was very laggy once the board becomes large and memories are being produced very quickly - maybe an option to turn off the animation / reduce particles?
3. It was possible to buy memories and sell them at a higher price, although the money earned this way had a large percentile and gradually drops for better memories. Now that might be the only starting point to the game, but I think it would make sense to sell memories for a lower price than the purchase price (so the player won't spam buy and sell to earn money)
4. Selling ~1000 rebellion memories was no fun at all. I think there should be buttons that allow the player to sell maybe 10, 100 memories at once.
The game is very easy to understand, the pixelated face and voice talking to you during the game was a very good idea too.
Only problem was the fact that for selling multiple memories, you have to click a lot, this feature may be mandatory if you try to continue the game, but for a game developed in 72 hours, it's okay :)
Gonna try to finish the game, it's not that easy to do it in one or two game because you see how the difficulty increase. Was killed by the cop because I wasn't managing well my time, was too greedy haha.
Correct the camera zoom and the disappearing text happening sometimes on the shop, add a feature to sell multiple memories, and I think the game will be awesome! Congrats!
1. We didn't saw this bug before we submit, that shit to understand the power and upgrade. We will fix it as soon as we can.
2. I think you are right the animation and particules effect are laggy. We need to find a solution or to let the player to disabled it. replace the little memories that pop by a text for example.
3. Inflations :joy: hahaha. This bug is really a breaker for the gameplay. Thank you to notice us we didn't saw it
4. Ho yeah thats the worst part when we tried to finish our game after submitting it... I was thinking a system that sell the best memories you got when you try to buy, or a sell all button maybe.
I'd leave a bigger comment, but I have to play Hackz Memories.
so i'm currently uploading the windows, mac and linux version with the new version of the game.
For now the webGL version is working and updated to the new version.
This new version is just a bug fix so i couldn't change the 1000 clicks at the end, it's not allowed, sorry for this.
Fixed bugs :
- currency spawn in shop duplicating currency
- detective use the wrong timer for speed acceleration
- Zoom is not working
- Hover Text showing when nothing to display.
Thx for all your comments and feedback. :v:
What you can improve:
* sells items by pack, click 1000 times on rebellion memories was not fun
* make a tutorial for each effect, in my first run I didn't understand the work memories mechanics
* balancing grinding, for 30 minutes I just grind with a snake pattern around my start for having some memories to sell
* victory condition is not clear, I had all upgrades and research, and I don't know what to do now
* fix int32 bug when you sell knowledge memories, I had 1B then after sell -2B
(I didn't find the secret ending)