Been working pretty hard on the game I mentioned in the last post. Here's an updated screenshot. The general idea is that eight notorious hacking masterminds are competing in tournament-style head-to-head matches for supremacy. All the characters are highly flawed and have dark pasts - there are no heroes in this game.

The buttons down the side are special powers that you can activate that either defend your own nodes or wreak havoc on your opponent. There are hidden traps, disrupting attacks, boosts, and detectors.

If you want to follow its progress more closely, I made a Facebook page you can check out.

This is a game I've been wanting to build for a long time. It's a competitive pseudo-hacking game where you capture nodes from a network in a real-time battle between two opponents. It is tentatively titled PWN. You can encrypt nodes to protect them, construct firewalls, and lay traps like backdoors and viruses to trick your opponent. The goal is to allow players to experience those exciting (and technically laughable) hacking scenes that show up in movies. The prototype is about two weeks old, so visibly it has a long way to go. But here's a screenshot so you can have an idea of the concept: