That Time I Opened A Terminal With A Lot Of Cat Pictures But They Did Not Matter by Starlight Glimmer is best poney

This is a virtual machine running Debian Unstable (in CLI). You need VirtualBox (File -> Import appliance). It's a big download (900MiB) so only bother if you are interested and at least kinda fluent with terminals. Made in 24 hours for the Compo.

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Objective

Explore the OS and gain access to all emails. More of a proof of concept than a game.

Controls

QWERTY keyboard recommended.

login: alice

password: 1234

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to me. This is worst idea I ever had. I outdid myself.

Ratings

Given 5🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

guine
04. Oct 2021 · 11:49 UTC
I will play!
LDJam user 156942
04. Oct 2021 · 12:05 UTC
What. WHAT? A **whole virtual machine** with some 2049 mind control/clone lore as a game? Now that's really unexpected!

Is that a Niko plush photo I'm looking at?

Thanks for the game. You've done something truly amazing.
euske
04. Oct 2021 · 12:42 UTC
It's a capture-the-flag type of game. As you navigate through an old-ish unix system you'll discover passwords to obtain further information. I could open the eml 3 and then stuck. The terminal displays random characters at random places, but I don't know if this is intentional or bug. The shell is kinda buggy; when command is not found, it doesn't recover from the escape sequence, and subsequent prompts are concatenated. I successfully quit vim so I consider it a win. :) Overall, an interesting idea.
🎤 Starlight Glimmer is best poney
21. Oct 2021 · 18:37 UTC
Thank you all for playing. I never intended for this game to be rated, but I'm glad a few people tried it.

Yes, it is a Niko plush, and yes, random characters were intended.
LDJam user 259103
21. Oct 2021 · 19:32 UTC
Really wanted to try this, but I just get this error:
```
Call to WHvSetupPartition failed: ERROR_SUCCESS (Last=0xc000000d/87) (VERR_NEM_VM_CREATE_FAILED).```
🎤 Starlight Glimmer is best poney
21. Oct 2021 · 19:53 UTC
@python-b5 I'm not sure why it throws that. Are you on VB 6.1.26 or 28? 28 was released only 2 days ago so I haven't tested it but it shouldn't have broken anything. I tested it on 6.1.26 on both windows and linux host.

Maybe this: https://superuser.com/questions/1502529/call-to-whvsetuppartition-failed-error-success-last-0xc000000d-87-verr-nem-v
LDJam user 259103
21. Oct 2021 · 19:56 UTC
@alaah 6.1.26, I believe.

Unfortunately I'm out of time to actually play it, but I'll give this a try later if I can get it working!
Sinci1
05. Nov 2021 · 03:08 UTC
An interesting project, though I personally don’t really get it.
On the first attempt I typed in cat, after which it froze and I had to reinstall.
Then I installed it again, this time I couldn’t type in the password for whatever reason, no text actually, in the password section. I had to reinstall one last time, and this time… I still couldn’t type the password, but after I managed to hop in after spamming random characters, I think it was a failsafe feature or somethin.

Anyways once I got in I looked around a bit, and honestly props, I don’t know how much of this you made but if you did the commands and stuff it’s impressive considering it’s under 3 days.
I read the emails, tried out the commands, and ultimately I didn’t really figure out how to get the passwords for the emails so I called it a day there, typed in cat again, and that was that.

A rather ambitious project, don’t really get it as I ain’t really fluent with terminals [I know what you said but… I wanted to give it a try], but props for making something, and something unique too!
LDJam user 0
28. Apr 2023 · 14:41 UTC
Wanti kun naf hin galee na ibsa maloo