just wanna throw in my suggestion of BitBurner in here, I think it’s a steam game now but it was a fun game I found on github where you can increase your physical and hacking skills, and slowly hack the planet™
its coding features seem pretty bland at first but I was able to create some more compex scripts and automats the majority of the game inside each rebirth system
It has its own scripting engine, so you can write in-game programs to do exploits and things. It’s not super complex, but you do need to actually write code to play it well, but I really enjoy it
That looks awesome! I haven’t dabbled in programming since BASIC—how would I be at this game? Would it hold my hand at first? I’ve done a little bit of machine code(anssembly? The one where you only use numbers) and C++, but it’s been like 20 years.
Yeah mostly in the beginning you buy and then modify programs. So you just need to change a string value or something until you feel like exploring more. The language itself is a fork of Miniscript, so if this page doesn’t seem insurmountable you shouldn’t have any issues
Definitely helps to be able to at least read and understand code. I remember the documentation being decent enough. IIRC it was a thing to provide scripts that look helpful but actually contained malicious code to do all sorts of nasty things to your in-game system. It’s really cool.
Man, makes me want to go back and play some Uplink. Shit’s fire!
just wanna throw in my suggestion of BitBurner in here, I think it’s a steam game now but it was a fun game I found on github where you can increase your physical and hacking skills, and slowly hack the planet™
its coding features seem pretty bland at first but I was able to create some more compex scripts and automats the majority of the game inside each rebirth system
If you feel like a more modern game, I really like https://store.steampowered.com/app/605230/Grey_Hack/
It has its own scripting engine, so you can write in-game programs to do exploits and things. It’s not super complex, but you do need to actually write code to play it well, but I really enjoy it
The old school vibe is a feature in Uplink. It’s some proper hack the planet shit
Of course, I love Uplink, my suggestion wasn’t meant to bring it down, just to provide a recco for a spiritual successor to scratch that itch
That looks awesome! I haven’t dabbled in programming since BASIC—how would I be at this game? Would it hold my hand at first? I’ve done a little bit of machine code(anssembly? The one where you only use numbers) and C++, but it’s been like 20 years.
Yeah mostly in the beginning you buy and then modify programs. So you just need to change a string value or something until you feel like exploring more. The language itself is a fork of Miniscript, so if this page doesn’t seem insurmountable you shouldn’t have any issues
https://miniscript.org/files/MiniScript-QuickRef.pdf
Sweet, most of that completely tracks, a little bit of it will require a little learning. I’ll check that game out, thank you so much!
Definitely helps to be able to at least read and understand code. I remember the documentation being decent enough. IIRC it was a thing to provide scripts that look helpful but actually contained malicious code to do all sorts of nasty things to your in-game system. It’s really cool.
Does the in-game editor have vim keybindings and syntax highlight? I can’t work without these,
lol there is this (https://github.com/ayecue/greybel-vs) and this (https://github.com/ayecue/greybel-languageserver) for when you want to go hard on the greyhack scripting
I should be less surprised xD
Gog has you covered
it is also on steam should anyone prefer that