Tortoise in the Secure Shell
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
Save your e-pet in this summer blockbuster hacking extravaganza.
Prepare to HACK!
Warning: not safe for tortoises
Best comedy hacking game of the century
- Cyberverse e-zine, February 21XX
The bold choice not to include any audio at all makes for a disquieting experience.
- Some Game Review Magazine
Download
Install instructions
Unzip and let rip
(If you want to run the jar directly, you'll need java 17)
Requires mouse and keyboard to play.
Development log
- 1.0.1 patchAug 17, 2022
Comments
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Its been really long since I came across a java game on itch. Really cool concept and game though
Quick question: what version of Java is needed in order to run the .jar version? Does it use Java 8, Java 11, Java 17, or a non-LTS version of Java?
(also I think the game might be a tiny bit too wide to fully fit on my screen)
Java 17 is required to run it.
For screen size, for some reason I settled on 1600x800 as a resolution, and couldn’t figure resizing in time >_>
Depending on how you’ve done your software architecture (and if you’re using Java AWT/Swing for graphics), it’s possible to resize graphics (in Java) using the AffineTransform class. Granted, you will need to scale the mouse position by the inverse of that transformation if you want the mouse inputs to line up properly, but that’s probably to be expected with these sorts of things.
Anywho, my monitor is 1920*1080, so I think that the game’s resolution might be a tiny bit more than 1600px wide. Then again, I don’t know for sure, as the only thing that really made me think that the game might be a tiny bit too wide was how the stuff in the game window seemed a bit off-center (implying that it wasn’t quite fitting into my screen properly), but that might have been a bit of an illusion caused by the background image being aligned with 0,0 instead of with the middle of the game window, idk
either way, seeing everything else that you managed to implement is still pretty darn impressive.
The background is indeed aligned with 0,0 so it should look a little janky, I left it in because sbig.
If you can see the wifi indicator, and the hacking keys, you can see it all.