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[–] [email protected] 59 points 6 days ago (3 children)

If you feel like a more modern game, I really like https://store.steampowered.com/app/605230/Grey_Hack/

It has its own scripting engine, so you can write in-game programs to do exploits and things. It’s not super complex, but you do need to actually write code to play it well, but I really enjoy it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The old school vibe is a feature in Uplink. It's some proper hack the planet shit

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Of course, I love Uplink, my suggestion wasn't meant to bring it down, just to provide a recco for a spiritual successor to scratch that itch

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That looks awesome! I haven’t dabbled in programming since BASIC—how would I be at this game? Would it hold my hand at first? I’ve done a little bit of machine code(anssembly? The one where you only use numbers) and C++, but it’s been like 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah mostly in the beginning you buy and then modify programs. So you just need to change a string value or something until you feel like exploring more. The language itself is a fork of Miniscript, so if this page doesn’t seem insurmountable you shouldn’t have any issues

https://miniscript.org/files/MiniScript-QuickRef.pdf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Sweet, most of that completely tracks, a little bit of it will require a little learning. I’ll check that game out, thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Definitely helps to be able to at least read and understand code. I remember the documentation being decent enough. IIRC it was a thing to provide scripts that look helpful but actually contained malicious code to do all sorts of nasty things to your in-game system. It's really cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Does the in-game editor have vim keybindings and syntax highlight? I can't work without these,

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

lol there is this (https://github.com/ayecue/greybel-vs) and this (https://github.com/ayecue/greybel-languageserver) for when you want to go hard on the greyhack scripting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I should be less surprised xD