Hi Kerry,

Thanks a lot! I tend to agree with you, HackIt has a unique and
interesting concept behind it yep :p

And it's true that there is still a lot of work. There are a lot of
discussions about its future at the moment, and there are already a few
steps that have been planned already. If you are interested I could tell
you more about it, and even show you a few design documents - it would
be interesting to know what you think.

But in a nutshell, the next major milestone will add missions to the
game - the idea is to use a bit more the content of the Web. For
example, you could get asked to find an information for someone, and
have to hack a particular website that you have to discover by
yourself... 

Modifying the websites is definitely something that seems important for
a lot of people (myself included : ) ). I agree it would be *very* cool
to be able to go to the homepage of the Washington Post and add an
article about how David (one of the project founders) was late to wake
up this morning. :D The only thing is that I'm not sure how this would
fit into the gameplay at the moment, so it's still something that need
more thinking... If you have ideas, they are really welcomed!

And btw, sorry for the bug in the game - it's linked to the latest
version (the one including the leaderboard) that hasn't been fleshed out
completely yet. I've rolled back the live version of the game to the
previous version, it seems to have fixed the bug. If this were to happen
again in the future, don't hesitate to send an email to [email protected] -
I will see it (along with the rest of the project contributors &
developers), and someone will take care of fixing it. : )

Thanks again for your answer, and glad to count you as one of the first
players of the game. 

Xavier.

On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 11:12 +1000, Kerry Olesen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think hackit has a really unique and interesting concept behind it,
> and I think it'll be great when the gameplay and everything else gets
> fully fleshed out.
> 
> I thought that having a leaderboard with a bit of info on your
> opponents was a great idea, as you then had a direction to go looking
> in for their sites, and it just generally gave you something to do
> other than hack random websites.
> 
> So it would also be good to be able to do something else with the
> sites you've hacked, just to add some more depth and give you some
> different approaches to becoming powerful in the game.
> 
> But even with the game as it is, I would like to keep playing and
> searching out enemy sites, but there's a MySql error, "MySql
> Error1054: Unknown column 'actions.hacked_from' in 'where clause'", so
> it is currently impossible to hack any sites.
> 
> I look forward to seeing this game fleshed our,
> Ciarrai.
> 
> 
> On 14 August 2010 02:24, Xavier Antoviaque <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>         Hi Ciarrai
>         
>         I just saw you had created an account on HackIt - thanks!
>         Quite impressive that you went that far, considering how early
>         we are in the development of the game.
>         
>         What you saw is basically only a first prototype - something
>         to get a feel of what the game can be one day.
>         
>         I'm thus very interested in knowing what you think about it -
>         would you mind spending 2-3 minutes to tell me (and the other
>         developers from the project, who will also receive your
>         answer) how it was to play the game? Do you have any remarks?
>         
>         Thanks!
>         
>         Xavier.
>         
>         NB: Also, if you have questions, or if you'd like to know more
>         about the project, let me know. It's open source, so you could
>         even contribute if you want : )
>         
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>         
> 
> 
> 
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