/cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction

sounds awesome. I was thinking about making something in the style of the first GTA, but with future .

you know, after I finish the one I'm already working on

>>33748

So heres what I just made some progress on, its the graphical browser for in-game websites. The graphics library I use, DFGUI, has a nice control called a RichTextLabel which can render a subset of HTML, which I hacked fake <form> and <input> tags into. So you can write sites in html and have the browser render them, to a limited extent. Or you can change the sites of webservers you hack, etc. In this case the input field sends its data to a (fake) php script on the server, which sends out an email to the account I listed.

I know it doesnt look like much, but the system behind it visible to the player, so like when trying to go to test.com it first queries the DNS server to get what IP address is registered for that domain. So some mission will probably be to break into the dns logs and see who all has been visiting a certain site. Also the webserver that hosts the site can be connected to, so you can see who else registered by looking their their access logs, or their sent email folder. Or you can work from the opposite direction, reading in someones email a registration email from baddragon.com, and decide to open it up in your browser to investigate what it is.

>>33751

tl;dr: here is some command line stuff for connecting to a server and traversing its directories and running some commands

long boring version:

Heres a version of interacting with a site without using the front end. So the programs that are running on a given server are listening for certain commands, in the case of a web store which lets you buy things, its listening for an "order" signal with some parameters. So when you do things on the front end using the browser, it is really just gathering up parameters to send to a server script that then runs the commands locally on the machine. Here I'm just connecting to the machine and running the command directly via the command line. The text doesn't look good right now, I know it needs to be formatted better with less redundant information. I'm also thinking each computer you connect to should have its own color scheme to differentiate when you connect to one computer or another.

I didn't show it but I have a BankingTransfer.exe app running locally, which listens for "setCredentials" and "transfer", so I set my credentials using what I was given in the email that was waiting for me when I started. Then I connect to the microsoft store server, see whats for sale, decide I want to buy a local network mapping program, and order it. I have to transfer the brouzouf to them before they send me the product as an attachment to an email. But that all works and the program is dumped in my c:\, which I can then run, and see other computers on my network. Actually I ripped out the Routers from the project yesterday, so it shows ALL the computers in the game as being on the same network, so thats a flaw. But otherwise thats in general how doing things in the command line works.

>>33752

Lastly, here is the dialogue system, and how agents move around in the world, at least for now. Its pretty inelegant, but once at a location they move from area to area inside it. Some areas will have blockers on them that must be defeated to get past, like a locked door or a guard. Also I have security cameras working, so if you hack into the airport security system you can get physical descriptions of anyone thats moved through an area with a security camera. From a code perspective, unless the designer specifically gives an NPC a certain hair color, they don't actually have one until asked about it. In this case the security guard that works in the area was "asked" about his hair color by the security camera, so it could note in the footage what color his hair was. Originally the game was based much more around making connections from incriminating evidence to suspects, but its more towards a world sim now.

I think there is a lot of room for cyberpunk content, imagine trying to track down someone smuggling data to a megacorp, you find out they met at a coffee shop so you hack their security camera archives to get a picture of the person, break into the police database and run his picture through facial recognition, search for him in the DMV records, enter his license plate into police license plate scanner networks, find out where he lives, etc. Or instead dumpster dive the megacorp and see if any financial records match what the smuggler was paid, and try and track him down through his bank account. These are just ideas. But every day more functionality gets added that supports that kind of gameplay, even though the art/design/UI is lacking for now. I hope the underlying systems have good potential for storytelling and exploration.

Bumping for a couple reasons:

I made a thread on TIGSource

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=51008

And I might be getting character art from this person (pic related)

http://bed-art.tumblr.com/

and is /cyber/ movie night dedd or what?

Progress from the last few days, made a GUIProgram class that can either spawn a front end with shitty programmer graphics, or run from the command line. If you run it from the command line it handholds you through walking through entering which variables it needs, or if you're super elite you can run it all in one go. Also added are environment path variables, so when you boot up your vulnerability scanner will tell the OS to point "scan" to the vulnerability scanner exe.

The vulnscan works with .vul modules, so during the game you can buy (or find) new modules that let you scan for new ways to attack a target. Or if you get really ambitious you can try and hack into the security researchers emails and get access to their vulnerability detection modules that they're developing but aren't ready for distribution yet.

The idea behind the GUI though is to give novice players an easy thing to do, but as they get more advanced (using the command line) they unlock more features. For example using the command line you can specify which vuln you want to scan for, whereas with the front end you might have to wait through 2-3 before you get to the scan you're interested in (no use scanning for brute force susceptibility if the server has no user authentication, for example).

am i the owly one that doesn't trust games about hacking? (sleeping dogs, hackOS?) seems to obvious since a game needs a lot of accesses and these people have reached that shit… paranoid? i hear u can easily make system calls as an external entity on g-mod or any game based on cryengine3…

any thoughts?

>>33591

Any progress OP?

I really like its atmosphere so far.

Post more webms.

Webms with sound. I loke that music in >>33752

>>37343

I just made a SHODAN type thing in the game, so for an area you can look for IoT devices like traffic cams. I like the idea of deploying something against someones kid as a vector to get to the parents home computer. Actually, also today I made just such a multi-step hacking approach.. first hacking the web interface of a traffic cam, which allows you to set the remote login password so you can connect to the device (and delete incriminating redlight running evidence).

Ultimately I'd like the user to be able to download the traffic cam program locally, to send spoofed traffic infractions to the city database to harass characters the player didn't like.

>>37531

>Any progress OP?

Kind of, I did some heavy refactoring and broke some things, and also removed a lot. So now there are no agents anymore. I passed on your comments about the music to the musicbro. They're not working on it anymore but Im sure they appreciated it.

Oh one new thing I could show is the Instant Messenger, it works like what you would expect. It caused some of the big refactoring because I had to figure out how an NPC could start a conversation at home, then switch to their mobile and leave the house and keep chatting on there. So it became this big project with changing how identities and credentials and accounts worked, but its unified now. On the other hand, a lot of things don't work anymore. But I'm still working on it.

Theres nothing /cyber/ about it right now, but I swear there will be eventually.

But can anyone give me some feedback? Like, does it run, is everything in the right position for your resolution, can you figure out what you're supposed to do?

http://vestigial.itch.io/hacking?secret=Zm8icDwiO3ohGMtzByu0hoH6lc

>>39793

>that autist that always whines about JS is still here

>>39808

>making a "hacker" game

>threatened by linux

Kek. Have a sage

>>39857

>Why use all those superfluous icons?

I paid moderate brouzouf for them so they're getting shoehorned in somewhere :^)

Actually thats not true, Agents gameplay has already been taken out.

>>39861

Linux version Soon™

This progress was fun, you can create text files and batch files which run like you're entering commands into the shell. So you could have a cleanup script to log into InterNIC and wipe its logs, and just run that script after every attack. And if you put it in /systemdirectory/shortcuts directory, it shows up in the start menu!

Otherwise Ive been looking more towards a procedural design, rather than a fixed campaign, and trying to come up with a consolidated hollywood-style hacking experience with neon geometric/vector graphics.

HA HA, TIME TO SHILL

I put a little demo out for /agdg/'s demo day, theres not much hacking or cyberpunk but it'll get there.

https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-7/rate/57019