Hackfest

Devlog

• The trophy list, shown with everything unlocked so you can see the whole set. They are not badges — each one is a perman
  October 01, 2026 by Devious Developments

  The trophy list, shown with everything unlocked so you can see the whole set. They are not badges — each one is a permanent bonus: faster cracks, more XP, a lighter trace. https://deviousdevelopment... Continue reading

  
• Fourteen captured boxes, each running a different family of malware, and the income line adding them all up: dollars, re
  September 29, 2026 by Devious Developments

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• Every intrusion leaves a line in somebody's log. Rewriting them is its own job with its own timer, and skipping it is ho
  September 28, 2026 by Devious Developments

  Every intrusion leaves a line in somebody's log. Rewriting them is its own job with its own timer, and skipping it is how a trace finds you later. https://deviousdevelopments.itch.io/hackfest... Continue reading

  
• Uploading a payload to a cracked box turns it into a zombie that pays you while you are elsewhere. Note the corner: two
  September 27, 2026 by Devious Developments

  Uploading a payload to a cracked box turns it into a zombie that pays you while you are elsewhere. Note the corner: two log traces left uncleaned. The box remembers you. https://deviousdevelopments.it... Continue reading

  
• Five ways to earn off a box you own. Torrent seeder trades money for reputation, the adware kit is the quiet earner, the
  September 27, 2026 by Devious Developments

  Five ways to earn off a box you own. Torrent seeder trades money for reputation, the adware kit is the quiet earner, the miner pays in RipCoin and runs the trace hot. Each one costs disk and each one... Continue reading

  
• Part 2: building a machine from parts and booting it. Every component does something real here. The drive decides what y
  September 26, 2026 by Devious Developments

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• Hackfest, from the top. You start on a dial-up box that cannot run the software you want, and everything after that is e
  September 26, 2026 by Devious Developments

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• Hackfest merch. Your old CorpoMax ID badge, stamped TERMINATED. I Survived 56K, for anyone who started on dial-up. The t
  September 26, 2026 by Devious Developments

  Hackfest merch. Your old CorpoMax ID badge, stamped TERMINATED. I Survived 56K, for anyone who started on dial-up. The title screen, and a RipCoin sticker: in code we trust. https://deviousdevelopment... Continue reading

  
• Cracking a firewall takes as long as your rig says it takes. 4m:56s on this box, and you can watch the hardware monitor
  September 25, 2026 by Devious Developments

  Cracking a firewall takes as long as your rig says it takes. 4m:56s on this box, and you can watch the hardware monitor, the cashflow and the task list the whole time it runs. https://deviousdevelopme... Continue reading

  
• A download on a thin line, and the start menu behind it — hardware monitor, cashflow, task monitor, trophies, contacts,
  September 24, 2026 by Devious Developments

  A download on a thin line, and the start menu behind it — hardware monitor, cashflow, task monitor, trophies, contacts, notepad. Everything in that list is a window you can open while the bar crawls... Continue reading

  
• Your internet line is a contact, not a setting. RipLine sells 56k, DSL, cable and fibre, and the only thing that changes
  September 23, 2026 by Devious Developments

  Your internet line is a contact, not a setting. RipLine sells 56k, DSL, cable and fibre, and the only thing that changes is how long you sit watching a download bar. https://deviousdevelopments.itch.i... Continue reading

  
• RipStore: software, paid in RipCoin rather than dollars. Each listing carries its install size, and the size is the poin
  September 22, 2026 by Devious Developments

  RipStore: software, paid in RipCoin rather than dollars. Each listing carries its install size, and the size is the point — the FireWall is 800 MB, so it needs a real drive, not the salvage disk the... Continue reading

  
• HackfestOS. The game is the operating system — phone, browser, resolver, targets, contacts and notes along the bottom, m
  September 21, 2026 by Devious Developments

  HackfestOS. The game is the operating system — phone, browser, resolver, targets, contacts and notes along the bottom, money and RipCoin and reputation along the side. There is no menu layered over... Continue reading

  
• Power on and the BIOS reads back the machine you actually built — the CPU you bought, the sticks you fitted, the drive t
  September 21, 2026 by Devious Developments

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• The PC Tower screen. The numbers along the top are the whole game: watts drawn against watts supplied, total storage, es
  September 20, 2026 by Devious Developments

  The PC Tower screen. The numbers along the top are the whole game: watts drawn against watts supplied, total storage, estimated seconds per task. Auto-Build will assemble the best rig you own if you w... Continue reading

  
• This is Crapazon, the parts store, and it lives on the phone in your pocket. Buy tab, sell tab, and a Boot Media aisle:
  September 18, 2026 by Devious Developments

  This is Crapazon, the parts store, and it lives on the phone in your pocket. Buy tab, sell tab, and a Boot Media aisle: an imaged HackfestOS stick for $60, or a blank one for $45 if you would rather b... Continue reading

  
• Here are the parts you shop for in Hackfest — every icon drawn in code, no sprites. Motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, spinning
  September 17, 2026 by Devious Developments

  Here are the parts you shop for in Hackfest — every icon drawn in code, no sprites. Motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM, spinning disk, SSD, PSU, NIC, case, fans, RGB, monitor, cooler, boot drive, install me... Continue reading

  
• v0.19.0 is live — free browser demo
  August 13, 2026 by Devious Developments

  Hackfest v0.19.0 is up and the demo now plays in the browser. In this build: the full parts-ordering and PC assembly loop, HackfestOS boot, firewall cracking, log-tracing across 12 puzzle kinds, malwa... Continue reading