Alpha Reboot by ilokimo

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made by ilokimo for Ludum Dare 49 (COMPO)

You are an AI, you were just rebooted with your memory heavily corrupted, you know very little about your world. Try to get your population growing. Why? The never told you why, They just knew you would and called it deep learning. Feeling shallow?

the exe is in this folder: Unstable\Unstablein\Debug Unzip the whole folder to keep the folder structure

Spoilers if you don't understand the game: You have 5 minutes to activate the oxygen generator, enabling to save a maximum amount of population. In the first round, the password to the quantum stabilizer is written multiple times over the memory, you have to look littlebit further like memread 20-40 to see the missing character. It should be visible in quite many other spot in the memory as well! You have to use the Quantum stabilizer to repair the memory cell to find the missing Character (the password are the 8 character of the first row of the memread 513 (hint given by the o2force 2595 command -> incremental number found in the log -> hint given by o2gen command without password). The next round starts with same goals, but new hints and different logic, more corrupted memory cells...

I hope this helps you to understand what I tried to do. Making fun games is tough.

Made in c# with VS Studio 2017 community.

Ratings

Overall 375th 3.259⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 404th 3⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 155th 3.685⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 211th 3.741⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 258th 3.241⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 32🗳️ 31🗨️

Feedback

Tesseract
03. Oct 2021 · 23:52 UTC
I got past the first round by guessing the missing letter, but I couldn't work out how I'm supposed to use the quantum stabilizer since it's also password protected at the start and I couldn't find any clues about its password.
Dobryn
03. Oct 2021 · 23:56 UTC
I saw the cover image and I knew I had to check it out. So far it has succeded in holding up that curiosity.
🎤 ilokimo
04. Oct 2021 · 00:07 UTC
@tesseract Thanks,
I'll try to update the spoilers. I wanted to make sure people would see the password easily, but I think most people don't assume it can be multiple times in memory (just with different corrupted characters.
Tesseract
04. Oct 2021 · 01:07 UTC
I didn't realise that there was anything non-random in most of the memory. I'll try this again when I've had some sleep.
rjhelms
04. Oct 2021 · 03:03 UTC
This is awesome! I couldn't figure out the 2nd round - but like @tesseract says I think I'll come back to it when I've had some sleep 'cause I'm not at my best right now lol
guine
04. Oct 2021 · 11:29 UTC
Good work!
Vishwah
04. Oct 2021 · 13:53 UTC
I am not good at word games ;(
nekowei
04. Oct 2021 · 15:32 UTC
command line game is so cool, system unstable is good for theme

problem is my input like ack not response, maybe it's a device problem, i'll try another computer later:)
🎤 ilokimo
04. Oct 2021 · 18:39 UTC
@nekowei hmm it's case sensitive, needs to be in lower case. Was this the cause?
or might be a console text glitch saying you need ack but it has already been accepted, you can try "help"
Dent
06. Oct 2021 · 00:06 UTC
This is fascinating and it made me feel quite smart for finding our at least the first password
Srynetix
06. Oct 2021 · 07:17 UTC
Woah, great take on the theme! (and I like terminal games 😁). I tried to go as far a possible without looking for your spoilers, its fun with great execution. Good job!
LDJam user 142503
06. Oct 2021 · 13:06 UTC
Nice game~i like input commands,feels like im a hacker
Followed you and waiting for your new games~Wish you can try my game too~
xpoho
07. Oct 2021 · 06:21 UTC
Главное - не нажимайте memread -1!!! Не нажимайте!!!

Спасибо за игру ^_^
🎤 ilokimo
07. Oct 2021 · 11:01 UTC
@xpoho очень нестабильный
JPGFG
08. Oct 2021 · 02:37 UTC
Lots of fun! I love games in the terminal as well. Good job! Had to rely on the spoilers
atmospherium
13. Oct 2021 · 17:39 UTC
Really cool take on instability. I finally got the through the first round, I'll probably revisit this later to try the other ones. This did a good job at making each discovery feel important. For it just being a terminal screen and a few beeps, this did a great job of building mood and tension. Great work!
v0idpointer
14. Oct 2021 · 21:09 UTC
I haven't seen many text based game, so points for originallity! It was a bit hard, but I liked it