Hackfest

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A UI-driven "fake OS" hacking sim in the Uplink / Hacknet / Bitburner vein. Order parts, build a PC, image an operating system onto it, boot into HackfestOS, and work your way through CorpoMax's network — cracking firewalls, reading logs to trace real employees, solving puzzles, and seeding malware that prints money while they sleep.

• 🛒 Build & upgrade a rig — order parts on Crapazon, assemble the tower, power it on. Better hardware = faster hacks, but every watt must be supplied, every gigabyte counts, and a NIC is required to get online. Hardware unlocks act by act, so every upgrade is a real step forward.
• 📦 Order, unbox, build — parts arrive as Crapazon deliveries you open at your desk; sell old gear back for cash; and one-tap Auto-Build fills the tower with the best parts you own, flagging anything missing or underpowered.
• 💿 Install & upgrade an OS — start with an all-in-one boot drive, then build a custom HackfestOS at the OS Builder: image a blank flash, install it to a drive, or clone it to a bigger one. Each OS tier grants more connections, faster ops, more income, a quieter trace, and extra storage — swap the drive it lives on and you'll have to reinstall.
• 🧭 A full campaign with an ending — from your revenge on CorpoMax, through CorpoMax HQ and the banks, to the one pulling the strings. Story beats and characters carry you between hacks.
• 🗂 Every box is a workspace — crack one and it opens into tabs: Info (access, malware, who logs in from where), Logs (scrub the trail you left), and Files (the loot).
• ☣ A malware arsenal, paid by the victim's hardware — every box you enslave runs on its own rig, and income scales with it: Spam (CPU/RAM) and Adware (RAM) print cash, Torrent (bandwidth) earns rep, Botnet rents its NIC, a CryptoMiner turns its GPU into RipCoin, a Data Scraper fills its disk and sells the dump, and Ransomware cashes out one box in a single hit — then bricks it.
• 🔓 Multiple crack families — firewalls aren't all SSH. Hash and Rainbow locks need their own looted cracker ladders (rainbow tables are huge — watch your disk); a universal Brute Forcer handles low-tier boxes.
• 🕵 Detection, tracing & antivirus — every action leaves a log, and every incriminating line you don't scrub raises your exposure. Hardened boxes run their own antivirus that fights back; run hot too long and your IP gets burned — buy a clean identity with rep. Your own AV and a cooler buy you time.
• 📇 Contacts & jobs — fixers post contracts that pay cash, rep, and free zombie boxes; spend rep at a black-market store for gear like Aquawall that speeds your cracks.
• 📓 Logs trace to people — crack a server and its auth log names the [service] hosts and [user] staff behind it. Resolve them in HackFple; their boxes hold the loot and the next cracker.
• 🧩 Puzzles & captchas — every box throws a security challenge (12 kinds). Encrypted files guard the best software behind a harder one.
• 🏆 Achievements with teeth — 24 trophies that actually pay off. Most grant a small permanent bonus that stacks — faster cracks, more income, a quieter trace, extra connections — and campaign milestones drop one-time bounties (cash, RipCoin, free zombie boxes). A 🏆 Trophies app tracks them all; a few stay secret until you earn them.
• 💾 Power & storage economy — cracks draw power; every download is a timed transfer over your NIC, and rainbow tables eat drive space. Outgrow your rig and you'll power down to swap in bigger drives, PSUs, and CPUs. Uninstall software you no longer need to reclaim the space.
• 📝 Keep notes — a built-in Notepad (saved with your game) for the IPs, passwords, and ladders.