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Well, this was an interesting game.
I figured out all the puzzles, except the one where the hint is ASCII, and then there were the runes at the end of the game. They really puzzled me too.
1) the guy was christian, not asa, and 2 those runes, only look like viking runes. As far as I can figure out they don't adhere to any runic alphabet I could find.
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Love the game. Really creative and made me think. Occasionally made me scream at the computer screen though. Cannot wait for the follow up. I would suggest finding a way to keep pictures up though.. As I want to keep them there, but then, I realise I can't see all of the text. Possible add a minimise button?
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stuck on level 3 turning on the power... i activate the first 4 computers and it tells me the power level is increasing but whatever computer i activate fifth (and sixth) it says nothing just has a black space. but if i try to activate it again it tells me the powers already turned on... it never tells me how to move forward
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This game is just "wow". As linux user I was surprised, gameplay is awesome. Yet it would be better if you'll use different commands for different filetypes instead of using cat everywhere.
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Can't even get passed the first password screen because everytime I type in brucedayton it tries to make it a command. login > password? brucedayton
brucedayton is not a command. So much for this
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For the audio message at the beginning of "Sector High - Level 01" there is a line which has the text "Error: Your personal files have been locked" but the voice appears to say "Error: Your personal files has been locked"
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Are those symbols/runes at the end Angerthas Moria (Cirth)? I tried translating them but some of them are slightly different...
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Fun way to kill half an hour. Have to agree with the earlier comment about ssh not being able to power machines on. You'd need something like a DRAC card or something (although Dell wasn't around back then). I kept typing "exit" when I was done remoting to another computer and getting an error. It shouldn't be too hard to fix that... But like I said, overall, a good game. Thanks for making it!
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This was an amazing game! I only got stuck once, on the stevedoor "hint." the rest were challenging, but I figured them out eventually on my own. Great job, and I can't wait for a sequel!
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I like how at the beggining, the game gives you all of the information you need just to make you google every small piece of information it gave you. Lost nearly 30 minutes trying to figure out the chicago tribune thing.
I'm curious about something though, what the hell were you supposed to google at the harp hint? I just skiped it
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Hrm - it didn't occur to me until later that the values in stevedoor's hint were actually character codes. Since I knew it was an in-order shift cipher I just presumed 99 was 'a', counted out each other letter for 99 = a, then it was a small matter to clock the letters in that nonce by one for each failure.
It is a neat idea, and some suspension of disbelief is always necessary, but I was chuckling when I was SSHing into computers in order to turn them on. I'd suggest they be connected to some network appliance, like earlier. It would also be nice to have a reason that they need to be on - like cracking some other, harder encryption. For your next round check out Bencoding, subnetting, CIDR masking, error correction using CRC and the MAC frame for 802.11. All require you to convert values from encodings.