Like games based on or that simulate ‘hacking’ - the actual practice, some imagined media version of it
There’s this sort of cozy-meta feel to the idea of hacking in a computer game- like, you are being responsible about information by taking human control of imaginary computer systems with security enforced by antagonistic power structures - inside a computer simulation.
Deus Ex was this and that is why it is ’ the only game I like '.
Introversion Software’s Uplink
Michael Brough’s 868-HACK
uh lots more i’m sure. is this what that shenzhen io game’s about?
oh yeah for that matter, Fulcrum Games / Hydroflame / over 250 GitHub contributors’ Bitburner
wait ruby is this a list thread? they’re usually for Galaxy Oddity
anyway also System Shock i guess
Just about every Matrix game.
lockpicking is ye olde hacking
It always strikes me as so silly when lockpicks are treated like some one-use device
What the hell are these characters doing when they pick locks
Presenting the exact opposite of the topic prompt with the system shock remake whose hacking variant is what I thought all video games would look like in 2030
Maybe in 2030 that’s what hacking will actually look like?
I am not that optimistic about the next five years.
In the Shivah, you’d look up stuff about people on the in game version of facebook and use that personal info to answer security questions to get into people’s accounts.
yeah I realised I subconsciously also meant investigation by concerned citizens
Don’t forget Hack 'n Slash.
It’s terrible.
