You are a new ‘sentience’ - an AI program that has been brought into being. This is something of a mixed blessing, because it leads you through the complexities of the game’s command-line interface while also being, at times, a frustrating journey. The true meaning of this won’t be clear to you at first. “Larceny, laundering, theft of currency and information, intentional manipulation and abuse of the system and code, deception, betrayal, and backstabbing are all part of hackmud, and strongly encouraged.” But I want to tell you that, despite some issues, this game is far from standard. Levelling up through ‘tiers’ like this is the standard of MMOs. The more money you have, the more upgrades you can buy, the better you can hack, and the more money you can get next time. To give you some background: it is an “MMO” hacking sim in which you must earn GC – a digital currency – by breaching NPCs or other players and stealing their money. Almost all my free time time for the past two days that wasn’t spent eating, peeing, or sleeping my way through the necessities of meatspace, has been spent exploring the murky chat channels and malicious scripts of this game, which appeared, seemingly out of the ether, on Friday. So we sent Brendan instead, who quickly found himself in over his head, lost in a world of player-made malware, intrigue, deception and guilt. We tasked our most elite hacker with entering its digital realms to crack the mainframe and report back. Multiplayer hacking sim Hackmud launched on Friday, catching us by surprise.
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