Ghostnet by Lacaranian

made by Lacaranian for LD30 (COMPO)

You're a hacker sitting peacefully at your desk, but then you are dead. So now you're a ghost. Cross over from the other side to hack the world!

Features:
- You are a ghost
- Spooky scary soundtrack
- Sunglasses
- 550w PSu, I5-3570k CPU, 1tb 7200rpm sata3 3.5h HDD, 8GB RAM
- Room and board
- 1337 hax$
- What more do you want!?

How to play:

Haunting: WASD, E to interact

Hacking: Click on traces while selecting the script of the same color to kill them. Don't let traces go over the load limit, or you'll fail the wave!

Made using Construct 2, Audacity, sfxr, msPaint, notepad++, and GIMP.

Note: After repeated queries, YES, there are endings to the game, and it just takes time to reach them is all. You have to really sit down and give it a while if you want to get there though!

Note 2: On further examination, I realized some people aren't getting the music. Which is like super important for the game. Some browsers don't support HTML5/javascript audio, and those that do have to be able to play either oggs or aac/m4a formats. Live and learn, I guess.

Web	http://schemagames.com/games?game=Ghostnet
Web "Fullscreen"	http://schemagames.com/embed/Ghostnet/index.html
Source	https://www.dropbox.com/s/evc8obizdqee1uv/GhostnetSource.zip?dl=0
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=34171

Ratings

Coolness	63%	3
Overall	3.21	555

Audio	3.74	60
Fun	2.88	699
Graphics	2.95	657
Humor	3.70	47
Innovation	3.17	546
Mood	3.26	331
Theme	2.74	870

Feedback

BlueSama

24. Aug 2014 · 08:04 UTC

Mind Blowing

DrCicero

24. Aug 2014 · 11:31 UTC

The link is missing?

DupeMaster

24. Aug 2014 · 14:41 UTC

wait where's the link? i wanna play it!

🎤 Lacaranian

24. Aug 2014 · 21:05 UTC

Ah, sorry- here it is.

Miziziziz

24. Aug 2014 · 21:43 UTC

took me a while to figure out I had to press enter when in front of the computer; was clicking all over.
it looks cool, the computer screen is nice.
I couldn't figure out was I was supposed to do though. I clicked on yellow dots, then switched to blue and clicked blue dots, but nothing ever really seemed to happen beyond that

🎤 Lacaranian

24. Aug 2014 · 22:32 UTC

Thanks for playing. There is definitely nothing more to the game. ;)

kenrickrilee

25. Aug 2014 · 03:34 UTC

Reminds me of "Windows Really Good" and other silly Flash animations from a decade ago :D

MJamesShort

25. Aug 2014 · 03:36 UTC

5/5 Incredible

varun

25. Aug 2014 · 03:37 UTC

Interesting narrative - could use some more instruction on the hacking.

BloodJohn

25. Aug 2014 · 03:40 UTC

Interesting intro: dialog adn graphics. Really nice.
But unclear "trace game". :(

rlangewi

25. Aug 2014 · 03:50 UTC

Pretty cool concept and style man, the music was perfect. I was confused as to if I had any control in the hacking section, not sure if there was any gameplay past that point. The only suggestion I thought of was to maybe have the full dialogue message appear first when a button is pressed and then skip it if it is pressed again, rather than having it skip right away. I found myself naturally wanting to press a button to see the whole text so I could read it faster than the typing speed. Great job on this though!

Graydom

25. Aug 2014 · 04:21 UTC

Someone is tracing me from the middle of the ocean. Sounds Great!
Great Game

highlyinteractive

25. Aug 2014 · 14:23 UTC

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S HAPPENING!

Cool game - love the music :)

Troy Atkinson

26. Aug 2014 · 02:14 UTC

I didn't really understand it, but I think that's because it's 3am here in England. The art is simple but really effective, the sound is great and humor is a 5/5! Great work!

TomTheG

26. Aug 2014 · 02:18 UTC

Ah, now that I know nothing was supposed to happen, I like it even more in a meta way. Nice piano music.

🎤 Lacaranian

26. Aug 2014 · 02:35 UTC

Well, I mean, there is an ending. It takes some time to reach though.

idovingx

26. Aug 2014 · 02:40 UTC

Enjoyed this.. Especially liked the little intro bit. Wave 1 just kept going and going though. Is there a way to beat it? (and, nice hackers poster)

Super Hamster

27. Aug 2014 · 03:24 UTC

Interesting game! Never seen a game like this

GAFBlizzard

27. Aug 2014 · 03:28 UTC

Nice piano improv! The clicking, especially combined with tiny squares (and not knowing whether I was doing the right thing by clicking on them) got frustrating though.

C_Walden

27. Aug 2014 · 03:49 UTC

Hi! I played all the way through. That was some great music! I especially liked the guitar tune. It was easy to just zen out and before I knew it I was finished. It's good for what it is; if it were a bigger game, it would definitely need something else to do. But I enjoyed my time with your game. Thank you.

DragonXVI

27. Aug 2014 · 19:52 UTC

Retrieve arms from bin.

ponk

27. Aug 2014 · 21:50 UTC

Funny !

🎤 Lacaranian

27. Aug 2014 · 23:45 UTC

@DragonXVI - You've already got arms, numbnuts!

someone

28. Aug 2014 · 20:43 UTC

That was pretty cool. The ghost part and the music were great, but the click on dots forever stage gets a bit tedious. There really needs to be some indication of progress and perhaps some other mechanic there to engage with.

pansapiens

29. Aug 2014 · 04:28 UTC

Great concept and quite funny. I think the first hacking wave should be easier and shorter, just to introduce the player into how it's done and what is going on. I didn't hear the music (latest Firefox on Windows), which probably added to the confusion (it seemed like that first wave would never end).

Dohan

29. Aug 2014 · 14:39 UTC

I liked the haunting part, but in the hacking part, the waves are a bit too long for my taste. By the time I finished the fifth wave, my wrist was aching...

Sunflower

30. Aug 2014 · 17:25 UTC

Nope, I'm definitely NOT going to waste my time trying to complete that first wave, even if apparently there is *some* end to it; it was just waaay too long, and the targets were so small. You *really* need to work on game balance, or else FOT coefficient (Fun Over Time) will be decreasing rapidly.

The adventurey, haunting part was moderately fun, though. Also, nice voices in the team screen and circuits in the title screen.

🎤 Lacaranian

30. Aug 2014 · 20:50 UTC

Yeah... the first wave actually goes on forever if the music doesn't play, if I remember correctly. Big bug to fix post compo for sure.

Jupiter_Hadley

01. Sep 2014 · 00:28 UTC

Interesting game! I included it in part 13 of my Ludum Dare 30 Compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/RYkx3DRuabw

jukimv1986

01. Sep 2014 · 16:24 UTC

Good take on the theme and nice mechanics. Well done!

Scott Baker

04. Sep 2014 · 21:36 UTC

Weird, great scores on humor.

hyouko

11. Sep 2014 · 00:42 UTC

Made it to wave 2 and almost got carpal tunnel syndrome in the process, I think. Simple and neat! Could do with a wee bit more explanation of what you're supposed to do.