Show HN: Chronos, 2 terminal games through 50 years of hacking history

xav77 a day ago | parent | next [-]

2 free browser games, nothing to sell, looking for feedback.

Chronos 1 is a terminal escape room, through the history of computer, from Unix V6 to modern Linux and known exploits.

Chronos 2 is a chase across real cyberwarfare, the 2016 Bangladesh bank heist, Moonlignt Maze, the Ukraine grid attack, Stuxnet and plenty more.

I spent about 2 months writing Chronos 2, looking for feedback, especially dialing the difficulty and the hint level.

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intervolz a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

had a wonderful time poking around, will definitely give this another shot when i have an hour to lock in.

01:58 lifted the blue-box tones — 1977

14:41 energized relay 3 — 1977

14:41 cut the LOCKD backdoor key — 1977

29:55 earned an elite BBS handle — 1983

55:19 recovered the DES key half — 1988

58:47 recovered the worm signature — 1988

60:28 the purge fired — the lock welded shut

	▲	xav77 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fantastic

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kappuchino a day ago | parent | prev [-]

feedback: making the editor "ed" pia is a deliberate choice - and a dealbreaker for me. Tickle my brain, don't make me figure out arcane edit schemas. vi, emacs, etc. just make this doable.

	▲	xav77 a day ago \| parent [-]
		No vi or emacs in 1977 unix, ed was the editor and you don't raelly need to know it: man ed give you the syntax and ed lockd.c spells out the solution for you. You don't need any sort of knowledge beside whats in the game just poke at stuff, did you see the line in ed lockd.c, if not it's not landing, it's worth knowing. But feedback is feedback so I'll take it