Hack the grid. Hack the planet. Hack it ALL.

(This was a jam entry made in a little under 3 days)

CONTROLS:

Right click on connected nodes with one of yours selected to hack in.
Make sure you have enough processing to achieve the hack.
Select a node of yours and right click on another connected node that you control to route processing power.
Select a node and right click on it directly to halt its current action.
Drag the view to scroll

BEWARE:

You are not the only user on this grid. Protect your assets, claim the grid, defeat all others.

Human users have also achieved access to the grid via the inter-net.
Communication is possible (press Enter to chat).

CREDITS:

GAME / CODE / CONCEPT / GRAPHICS - ProPuke

SOUND EFFECTS - duckduckpony / newlocknew / paep3nguin /
pan14 / InspectorJ / kwahmah_02 /
jim-ph / malexmedia

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (5 total ratings)
Author	ProPuke
Genre	Strategy
Tags	Game Jam, Hacking, Multiplayer, Real time strategy
Average session	A few minutes
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard, Mouse
Multiplayer	Server-based networked multiplayer

Development log

Post-jam QOL update
Dec 14, 2020

Comments

asthesus7 days ago

I got to playing against two hard AIs and was defeated. Surprisingly compelling game for how simple it is. Well done!

AntonBlacksmith98 days ago

hi. I'm very interested in how your map is generated... Is it some known algorithm? Or you found solution by yourself?

ProPuke92 days ago

Hey o/

It's actually pretty simple/dumb. I just tinkered. It only takes 3 steps:

Just pick some random positions for nodes. Any position is valid as long as it isn't too close to an existing node. The number of nodes you choose to add is proportional to the area of the map.
Connect every node to its nearest neighbour node. And have a 50% chance of connecting it to up to 2 more nearby neighbours.
Now you've got a random scattering of nodes, some connected in clumps, you want to join these "islands". So for every node, find all the nodes it can reach via connections, then find the nearest neighbour that ISN'T in this set and connect to it. Repeat this process until there are no separate sets.

That's it!

That said, the output isn't actually that great imo.
I have played with more intelligent generation rules. I've got a local version I've been trying to polish into more of a complete game. But finding more mechanics that feel fun, and find a way to balance it better is tricky, so it's not felt good-enough to push up yet.

ckie314 days ago

hi this thing is very fun the hard ai is very hard

sunst3 years ago

unable to connect again, no server

ProPuke3 years ago

Thanks for reporting! Server given CPR and some therapy. Should be good from now on :S

ohwirm3 years ago

Keeps saying unable to connect, no server found

ProPuke3 years ago

Whoops again. Thanks for the report! Should be up again now. I need to automate the security certificates refreshing on the server.

Knight3 years ago

I cant uh.. play says something bout a server error.. :/