Hacknet gameplay3/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But we’re getting ahead of ourselves what exactly is Hacknet? Widely seen as the spiritual successor to 2001’s Uplink, Hacknet is the criminally overlooked 2015 release from Adelaide indie developer Team Fractal Alligator. It’s a real surprise that a hacking game featuring nothing other than a computer screen has managed to portray a believable, intriguing and human version of cyber-shenanigans, when a wealth of literature, cinema and news reporting have abjectly failed to do so. Some of them malevolent in their aims, others not. Progressing through Hacknet’s expanding web of nodes and computer ports, it became apparent that this was to be a narrative which treated hackers as, shockingly, people. Thankfully, Hacknet is able to bring a little more nuance into what makes a hacker a hacker-which is to say they have some amount of nuance. To Shutterstock, they are faintly-aggressive three-headed creatures who peak out from behind laptop screens. To others, they are pallid little trolls who lurk on anonymous message boards and fill twitter with sweary egg avatars. To some, they are people who are able to use computers with any kind of competency. ![]() The term ‘hacker’ means a lot of things to a lot of different people.
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