The programming language used starts simple but grows in complexity as the game goes on. The player injects little EXAs into systems and programs them for mischief. “STUXNET is a fascinating story, and it sparked the idea of these malicious programs that are designed to unfold like origami into a specific network and manipulate it in some way,” he said. Barth told me he got the idea for the game’s coding from the STUXNET virus- the cyberweapon that felled one of Iran’s nuclear facilities. Shenzhen I/0 and TIS-100 also got players doing rudimentary programming.īut Exapunks is the only game I’ve ever played that made the hacking seem real. These are the kinds of game Zachtronics is known for. This is just a simple bit of code, but as I learned to move across multiple computers, manipulate several EXAs at once, and program basic if/then statements into the code, the game became much more complicated and beautiful. The EXA then runs through the program, grabbing the file, linking across the two computers, dropping the file, then halting. To do that I’d write simple command lines that look like this: I’d program an EXA to pick up the file, move between the computers, then terminate. I need to move the file from one to the other. One has a file labeled 200 and the other doesn’t. Say there are two computers, represented by two tiled blocks on the screen, each labeled 800. Players create and manipulate these EXAs in a 2D isometric space using simple command lines.
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The reference material is important because this game is about hacking and hacking means learning to code.Įxapunks’s alternate future uses EXA, little executables that shuffle around computer networks carrying lines of code back and forth. I had to reference the book constantly to understand the game’s concepts, reference unique lines of code buried inside the text, and understand the game world. Holding Trash World News in my hand complimented the experience. “However we have included a digital version with a screen-friendly layout.” “We recommend you print and assemble the zines for the most authentic and enjoyable Expanuks experience,” the game says.
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The file is actually a printable PDF with instructions on how to assemble it in the real world.
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“That’s the sense we tried to capture.”Įxapunks starts when a hacker named Ghast knocks on the player's door and gives them a magazine called Trash World News that serves as both the game's instructional manual and lore book. “In the days of the actual cyberpunk movement, the late 80s to early 90s, the emphasis was much more on ‘punk’ in the sense of someone who stands in opposition to big systems of control,” he said. It’s about more than just the aesthetic of neon signs and dark alleyways. Just as important to Exapunks is the idea of being a punk.
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“Of course, the idea that being a hacker could be cool was practically enshrined for us and many others in the movie Hackers,” Barth told me over email. Exapunks writer Matthew Burns read Wired and other cyberculture magazines. He went to DEF CON-a yearly hacker convention-to do research for the game. Zach Barth-founder of Zachtronics-grew up reading 2600, a hacking magazine that’s also behind the HOPE conference, and would buy old computers at swap meets. Expaunks is steeped in 1990s Cyberpunk aesthetic. If it all sounds like a William Gibson novel, that’s the point. A mysterious computer program makes an offer-hack for me and I’ll keep you alive. The player character has the phage and needs medicine that costs $700 a day to stay alive. That’s the power of Exapunks, a game set in an alternate 1997, where a terrible plague called “the phage” is ravaging the population, computers run everything, and the players have to hack to stay alive. Clearing the small hurdle made me go from feeling like the dumbest person in the room to the smartest. After a few minutes of experimenting, I did.
The Tessellated Intelligence Systems TIS-100 is a massively parallel computer architecture comprised of non-uniformly interconnected heterogeneous nodes.
It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for! TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets.
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