Hackmud
Hackmud is a massively multiplayer online video game and/or MUD that simulates 1990s hacker subculture through text-based adventure. Players use social engineering, scripting, and cracks in a text-based terminal to influence and control other players in the simulation. Reviewers wrote that the game's "campy hacking" mimics that of films like WarGames (1983) and Jurassic Park (1993).
Hackmud
Drizzly Bear, developer of Hackmud · Sean Gubelman, founder of Drizzly Bear LLC, via email · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Drizzly Bear
- Language
- English
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- massively multiplayer online game · role-playing video game · simulation video game
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Hackmud is a massively multiplayer online video game and/or MUD that simulates 1990s hacker subculture through text-based adventure. Players use social engineering, scripting, and cracks in a text-based terminal to influence and control other players in the simulation. Reviewers wrote that the game's "campy hacking" mimics that of films like WarGames (1983) and Jurassic Park (1993).
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• Title — Hackmud • Developer — ComCODE • Publisher — ComCODE • Platforms — Linux, macOS, Windows • Released — 2016 09 22 • Genre — Simulator MUD • Modes — Multiplayer • Illustration — Sean Gubelman, the developer
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Drizzly Bear, developer of Hackmud · Sean Gubelman, founder of Drizzly Bear LLC, via email
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Drizzly Bear, developer of Hackmud · Sean Gubelman, founder of Drizzly Bear LLC, via email
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