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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.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":710935,"author_name":"Tesseract","author_uid":"tesseract","epoch":1633309657,"text":"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.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":711420,"author_name":"rjhelms","author_uid":"rjhelms","epoch":1633316582,"text":"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","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":713102,"author_name":"guine","author_uid":"guine","epoch":1633346951,"text":"Good work! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":713789,"author_name":"Vishwah","author_uid":"vishwah","epoch":1633355582,"text":"I am not good at word games ;(","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":714376,"author_name":"nekowei","author_uid":"nekowei","epoch":1633361554,"text":"command line game is so cool, system unstable is good for theme\n\nproblem is my input like ack not response, maybe it's a device problem, i'll try another computer later:)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":715766,"author_name":"ilokimo","author_uid":"ilokimo","epoch":1633372746,"text":"@nekowei hmm it's case sensitive, needs to be in lower case. Was this the cause?\nor might be a console text glitch saying you need ack but it has already been accepted, you can try \"help\"","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":734823,"author_name":"Dent","author_uid":"dent","epoch":1633478771,"text":"This is fascinating and it made me feel quite smart for finding our at least the first password","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":737267,"author_name":"Srynetix","author_uid":"srynetix","epoch":1633504624,"text":"Woah, great take on the theme! (and I like terminal games \ud83d\ude01). I tried to go as far a possible without looking for your spoilers, its fun with great execution. Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":739225,"author_name":"LDJam user 142503","author_uid":"142503","epoch":1633525598,"text":"Nice game~i like input commands,feels like im a hacker\nFollowed you and waiting for your new games~Wish you can try my game too~","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":745183,"author_name":"xpoho","author_uid":"xpoho","epoch":1633587689,"text":"\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0435 - \u043d\u0435 \u043d\u0430\u0436\u0438\u043c\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435 memread -1!!! \u041d\u0435 \u043d\u0430\u0436\u0438\u043c\u0430\u0439\u0442\u0435!!!\n\n\u0421\u043f\u0430\u0441\u0438\u0431\u043e \u0437\u0430 \u0438\u0433\u0440\u0443 ^_^","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":746042,"author_name":"ilokimo","author_uid":"ilokimo","epoch":1633604463,"text":"@xpoho \u043e\u0447\u0435\u043d\u044c \u043d\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0431\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":749886,"author_name":"JPGFG","author_uid":"jpgfg","epoch":1633660647,"text":"Lots of fun! I love games in the terminal as well.  Good job!  Had to rely on the spoilers","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":762979,"author_name":"atmospherium","author_uid":"atmospherium","epoch":1634146786,"text":"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!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":764284,"author_name":"v0idpointer","author_uid":"v0idpointer","epoch":1634245762,"text":"I haven't seen many text based game, so points for originallity! It was a bit hard, but I liked it","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld49\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/tyt0m00k4mlymez\/Unstable.zip?dl=0","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/tyt0m00k4mlymez\/Unstable.zip?dl=0","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"79921","g_author":"1266368","g_event":"LD49","g_eventkey":"119","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"380707","g_title":"Alpha Reboot","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"375","g_commentcount":"17","g_site2_node_id":"266395","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"266395","n_urlkey":"380707","n_parent":"258323","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/49\/alpha-reboot","n_slug":"alpha-reboot","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"266368","n_created":"1633122525","n_modified":"1761347363","n_version":"826023","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD49","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":266368,"body":"You are an AI, you were just rebooted with your memory heavily corrupted, you know very little about your world.\nTry to get your population growing. 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