Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council as main sponsor.
Hello gamers!
Welcome to the official website of the World Wide Hack where you can find more information about the game, our community and what you can look forward to.
World Wide Hack is a MMO game about realistic hacking and cybersecurity with a strong story set in the open world. You can take challenges, complete quests, make decisions and cooperate or compete with another players trying to influence the story and the whole world. Enjoy cooperation or fighting the others in hacking environment and use your skills to explore this epic game experience.
Why you should play it?
- Fun, yet realistic hacking
- Player’s decisions and consequences
- Dynamic story and replayability
- Realistic atmosphere of the game
- Educative effect and potential
- Possibility of cooperation (MMO), PvP and solo
World Wide Hack is currently under development but we have finished our demo as you can see in the plan below. Our game is suitable for PC Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Google Chrome is recommended browser but we are supporting most of browsers.
World Wide Hack
Simulations are great for peeking into specific field and exploring some topic in practical entertaining way. This game is going to reveal hacking experience in living futuristic IT context emphasizing importance of cybersecurity. Surround yourself with huge amount of players passionate about technological progress and interested in influence of innovations on the whole society just like you are.
This text-based game has entertaining but realistic hacking and cybersecurity aspects which are set inside dynamic narrative. The feeling of being a part of deep story and complex universe is core of the player´s experience and engaging gameplay. Enjoy the futuristic atmosphere of science research center using quantum technologies to change the world as we know it.
More about the game...
In World Wide Hack world, you - as a player - are making decisions by accomplishing quests and investigating persistent network of computers owned by people (living NPCs and players) in parallel reality. You should use your power to influence life of the game characters which have various nature, problems and story. By doing that you can change the whole story through the documents, software and data saved on their computers.
Gameplay
You are able to interact with other people in multiplayer as well in PvP. Network of computers can be accessed by terminal of QuanTech company application in information system. This company is working on research about quantum computers and accidentally discovers possibility to connect to this parallel realities via their application.
World Wide Hack is PvP and PvE simulator which dynamically reacts to player actions. You should collect hacking, security and analytics tools and secure your node from which you can explore whole network and attack another player´s devices. Basic gameplay is consisting of various types of quests which you can complete in many ways according to your preferences. Every option of finishing the quest has real effect in the game - you can see it right in the story and in the state of the whole game world. You have to use various dynamics to defend yourself and control the network thanks to effective hacking and protecting strategy you should choose.
All tools, mechanics and strategies used in World Wide Hack are based on real hacking methods modified for gaming purposes.
We are trying to keep deep feeling of realistic hacking atmosphere and experience but at the same time avoid too complex lengthy principles by simplifying them. The result is enjoyable hacking process with real basis and fresh dynamics adding gamification and fun elements.
If you want to try all these mechanics and taste hacking game experience as soon as possible, don´t hesitate to check our Patreon profile.
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Community
You can get in contact with us and community in multiple ways. We would realy like to hear your feedback and also get you in touch with other players so can enjoy game and it's development with others.
To just chat with us and follow news, you can write us on FB page
or on discord
Otherwise, there is roleplay group created about which you can read below.
Roleplay group
We love the idea of creating deep story influenced by players themselves in open world of computer network. Our goal is to develop a great game around large fan community that will see core of our game as first as possible and try to play it, so we can make progress faster and according to our player´s wishes.
As a reward for your feedback or support, we have prepared for you an interactive roleplay to taste game atmosphere and story from hacking world. You will be in direct contact with dev team and get early access to the game in current phase of development. You can walk through application interface, try to solve our puzzle and complete quests as a tester - fictional employee of the QuanTech company.
By joining our roleplay community of fan and players in Facebook group you get:
- direct contact with dev team
- early access to a demo version
- chance to test new features
- participation on development process
- taste of roleplay story extension
- invitation to online events in game
- ingame meetings and battles with dev team
- easy cooperation with another players
- updates about current status of the development
Events
We are starting our activity in Facebook Roleplay Group early next week. You can look forward to first taste of our early demo. To not miss it, join the group.
We are planning to engage you - our community - through many future ingame events, which we are currently planning.
Roadmap
december 2018
- first Prototype created
- active community testing of prototype
may 2019
- Prototype finalized
december 2019
- first Demo version - early access for community
- preparing community
- ready context - websites, game
- training in Demo and few puzzles
january 2020
- Demo version is done
- full training program
- full application puzzle
- access tu multiplayer first quests
march 2020
- new Story content
- extended quest system
- focus on PvP and multiplayer system
- web tools
- balancing
june 2020
- OS versions
- NPC content and living NPCs
- dynamic world
- soundtrack
- finished Story
november 2020
- reworked Demo
- finished 1 & 2 level of quests (from 6)
- finished soundtracks
- new versions of tools
- cooperation and PvP in quests
february 2021
- add clickable GUI, map and other graphic improvements
- most of the planned quests done
- balancing and finished most of the tools
- economics and multiplayer balancing
- preparations for Kickstarter
- Alpha version finished
april 2021
- adding more text and graphical content
- polishing
- bugfixing
- preparing servers for first official players
jun 2021
- started potencial Kickstarter
- more bugfixing
- Beta version finished
november 2021
- preparation for release
- preparing game for Steam and other platforms with desktop version
- final version
next
Based on Kickstarter reached pledge levels
- more tools, puzzle, easter eggs
- more levels of complexity of puzzles
- dynamicaly changed versions of tools
- small bounty quests
- proactive NPCs (trying to hack you)
- world areas (finance, busines, social, government...) effects
- more RPG mechanics
Patreon
Creating a good game costs time and energy and it's hard to reach our goals without any financial help. So we are looking for some Patrons who like this idea behind project as we do and want to help us to make it in best quality and shortest time so we can finally play it!
Funding
Our team already gained some financial support to develop vertical slice from Slovak fund called Slovak Arts Council so also thanks to this we are are able to finish game. But we still need more money to cover expenses for following more then year of development.
Support us so we can finish all hacking and game mechanics, complete whole story, prepare epic content, upgrade graphic interface and make the game playable and enjoyable. And of course we need coffee to make all our ideas happen so every dollar is better than nothing!
You can speed up release of the full game by participating on funding development so don’t hesitate to join us on Patreon. Enable us to continue working and receive your rewards that we are offering.
Thank you for keeping gaming alive!
Our team
We are 5 enthusiastic people standing behind design and development of the game. Our common goal is to create outstanding project that is going to merge people, fun, epic story, adventure, learning and challenges. We know that best game design is based on research, data, best practices and constant feedback, so we realize the importance of you - our fan community and testing players.
- Peter Pač is the author of the whole idea and our manager and main developer.
- Monika Martonová works on game design, player´s experience and also structure and content of game tutorial.
- Lenka Naďová is responsible for the story line and almost all text parts in the game.
- Martin Pikulík is graphic designer responsible for the visual style and content of the game.
- Marek Sabo helps with graphics in second development phase
Credits
Consultant
Mgr. et Mgr. Zdeněk Záhora
zzahora.cz
Music & Sounds
by Kea Audio Solutions
Graphic
Font White Rabbit by Matthew Welch
www.squaregear.net
Partners
Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council (main sponsor).
Other graphic sources
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www.freepik.com