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Well, this takes me back. I vaguely remember the original CYBERHAX. Is this the SBIG Jam for throwbacks?

The style and presentation of this game is really cool, in fact it's almost too good for SBIG Jam. The retro style is fantastic, the flavour text adds a lot of character to the game, and the injokes/references definitely are worth some points. The title coming in with the guitar chord I knew about but actually seeing it in game was something else.

I can't help but feel too much time was spent on the flavour and style and cool stuff and not enough on making the core gameplay work well, though. I could not for the life of me figure out how to play this game. I clicked on some stuff, some stuff happened, I didn't know what it meant, and I quickly gave up.

I read all the messages but I was totally at a loss as to how to actually start hacking. Eventually I figured out how to start the actual hacking game; I forget which button it is, but it's one of the ones along the bottom. But then I wasn't really sure what to do. There's a square marked exit, but the rest is just a sea of squares, and I don't know what the different colours mean. There's a bar, and a tortoise number, but I don't know what either of those mean. I tried right-clicking to scan for mines, but that didn't seem to do anything. Clicking on the squares displayed icons, but I didn't know what they meant. Some of the UI implies you have multiple powers or tools, but I don't know what they do or how to switch between them.

There are some weird glitches with this game. It's quite small and the text is VERY hard to read at the default size, but zooming in totally breaks the graphics at some zoom levels. The game also didn't start the first time I clicked start, or maybe had a very long delay.

The type on effect is cool the first time but I wish there was a way to skip it.

All in all, there's lots of cool stuff in this game, but I couldn't figure out the game itself, and it's almost too nice to be SBIG.

EDIT: Looking at the page now, I see movement keys are listed. I thought this game was played entirely with the mouse.

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Thanks for the detailed feedback! I often forget that people don't experiment as much as I do with games, so maybe I need to add a basic tutorial to show people what to do. I hope I have time left! EDIT: I've added a tutorial to the game that explains how it's supposed to be played. Thank you so much for providing feedback!