Hello Everyone! Hope you're all doing great! I wanted to give you an update on what's been happening and where I am at with the incoming big update 0.3.1. I know it has been a lot of time since it was supposed to be released and it is still not quite finished. The reason is that I've been working on something pretty important outside of the game in recent couple of weeks. Over the past few weeks, I've been preparing for and taking the PNPT (Practical Network Penetration Tester) exam. Its a pretty intense process - the exam itself is 5 days of lab work, 2 days writing a report, and then a live debrief/presentation. I'm super excited to share that I passed the exam last week! I didn't want to say anything until it was official, but now that it is, I believe that this deeper security and pentesting knowledge will help me create an even better hacking game for you all. I know the update has been delayed a few times (yes, originally it was January-February, then April, May, and now we're in June), and I completely understand that it's annoying. But now that the exam is out of the way, Ive shifted my focus back to the game. So here I am to tell you that the game is not dead. The upcoming 0.3.1 update is going to be huge! Heres a quick reminder of what it's going to be: - Introduction of 3D world -limited- gameplay (almost done for the version!) - Completely new, reworked UI for the in-game computer (in progress) - Completely new network generation system for game (more realistic behavior) - Overhauled mission system + of course new missions - More dynamic and better-simulated in-game world and NPCs I received a lot of support from some of you, and encouragement, which helps me a lot to not give up! I must admit I included a lot of things for that update and the scope creep made it really insane process! Especially the new game computer UI was not planned at all for that update and it itself is a huge change. It's all because I want the game to be drastically improved after this update on multiple areas, but it also means that the amount of changes required has been overwhelming for me at times. But again - I believe the worst part is already done and behind me. Thank you for your patience. I'm pumped to bring you the really unique hacking game experience and cant wait to see your feedback when it's finally on!

[ 2024-06-12 21:19:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

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