Welcome to the world of Syscrack!
Can you hack your way to the top and rule the undernet?
Are you willing to step over your friends, enemies and your pets if it meant another win?
Even if you were to gut the market, cripple their business, destroy everything they own and take what’s yours?
No matter what your answer is, Syscrack is the game for you!
In Syscrack, you take the role of a small-time script kiddie trying to make it to the big time.
You might have come from rich parents who bought you the latest hardware, or you might be a self-taught genius who built your own rig from scrap parts.
Either way, you’ll have your whole life torn to pieces, your infrstructure seized by the feds, your networks completely overtaken by a 13 year old prodigy called Larry from halfway across the world, just because you might have forgotten to clear you logs on your last victim, or just because they wanted the experience.
Everyone is just the same as you, but no one is on the same playing field.
So, welcome to the undernet, hacker.
Your game, your way.
If you want to actually survive this hellhole, you need to adapt.
Your first call will to get a spare computer. It’s not going to be an Alienware, but it should be workable enough for you to get the first victim for your botnet, and most importantly, disposable enough for when the time comes.
After that, you should probably look at taking on some contracts. Starting out, you won’t have a great deal to choose from, but as your reputation grows, you’ll quickly find that they start coming to you.
Until then, bulletin boards and undernet forums are your best friend.
Contracts will help you get the money and experience you need to upgrade your rig, buy better software and most importantly, learn new skills. The more power you get to play with, the fancier your toys will be. Kapiche?
From there, you can choose your own path. But you’re going to need to at least learn the basics, so if you skipped the tutorial, here’s a quick one.
By the way - stay off the clearnet.
Everything that actually matters lives on the undernet.
Straight up, the clearnet’s unusable for people like us now - trackers, scrapers, data vultures circling like it’s feeding time.
And yes, your golden child Novana is right there in the middle of it. Mad, innit? Folks lining up to hand over their whole life story to one corporation, even after the Red Sun fiasco barely seven years ago.
Half the population don’t even clock where Novana came from - a grime-covered data-mining outfit with a “don’t look too closely” backstory.
You expect me to believe that a company founded in some off-map backwater, with a former CEO literally indicted for data theft, running an ad-tech empire built on surveillance… had nothing to do with Red Sun? Yeah alright, pull the other one.
Whole thing sounds like a IAC project.
You can’t even load a recipe page without them peeking over your shoulder.
Novana’s everywhere now - in your phone, your router, your morning news, probably whispering sweet nothings to your fridge when you’re asleep.
Or probably is your fridge…
So yeah. Stick to the undernet. Unless you want your entire life story sent straight to the local feds.
Starting out
Rule 1 - always clear your logs.
Never leave yourself vulnerable to being traced back.
If you don’t, you might just be a victim of a 13 year old prodigy from halfway across the world, called Larry.
And he will find you. I think. He might be real.
<-- real photo of Larry.
Second rule, always hack from a proxy.
Most the time this will just be another person’s computer.
Never use your own IP address to hack someone else, or you will be caught.
Third, don’t get attached.
I don’t mean don’t ever make friends - hell, you’re going to need them where you’re wanting to go.
But don’t be surprised if someone picks money when they’re really supposed to choose you.
Deceit is the norm, and you’re gonna have to get used to that.
Just make sure no one finds your chat logs or uses them to plan how they can get into your network, whether that’s your social one or your computer one.
This game sounds sick, how do I play it?
You can’t. Because I haven’t made it yet. But I am making it.
I don’t have a patreon on a ko-fi or anything else like that, I’m just one person making this on a severely underpowered laptop that shouldn’t even be able to run half of my shitty code.
You can see the progress on the open repository over on my gitlab, and if any of this interests you at all, please send me an e-mail. It’s pre-filled so just send it off as default.
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