This idea occupied back of my head for a long time.

To implement the "best" part of System Shock 2 game loop.

Now it's done and it's only missing battle pass and gacha mechanics to "pull" cute hybrid midwives using hard earned nanites.

Jokes aside here is a simple re-implementation of ss2 hacking minigame (with some other puzzle grids included).

Playable in browser, no download required.

It's simplified as there are no stats, cyb flavored psi-powers, implants, soft or ice picks attached to it.

Normally failing hack will do something but here it's just you and node activation chance.

Time to press on your luck, hacker!

https://aristarhys.itch.io/cyber-piper web and windows platforms supported

P.S. big inspiration for this was https://rosodudemods.wordpress.com/2023/01/11/devblog-9-ss2-strategic-node-hacking/, so thanks RoSoDude!
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It's not that surprising, considering it's essentially, by design, a glorified dice roll.

Cyber Piper will be my porn name in 10 years time, I have decided!

@OP: how is godot, nice and user friendly, a technical nightmare, or somewhere in-between?

Join2
As "baby first game engine" i think it's almost perfect and protyping in it can be done without feeling majorly lost like in "big" engines like UE5.

You just need to adapt "godot way" of decoupling code base - i.e state machines, dummy controller nodes, signals, self-sufficient scenes and custom nodes. If you will try to do it in good old "main()" here goes my game logic as big spagetti pile it will fail miserable.

Also GDscript is nice like if python had cute lil snake baby.

RoSoDude
Yeah, I was thinking about it as next step in development hell with little bit more polish on UI/UX  and QoL side of things.
But that heavily depends on my capacity to spend time on that purely "just for the lolz" project.
I appreciate the suggestion, thanks on input on that.

2.1 featuring improved visuals and puzzle transpose released

- Fixed bug on web version related to pressing ESC and making game unplayable
- Fixed wrong centering of puzzle area
- Removed "tutorials"
- Puzzle now can spawn transposed

P.S It is (probably) last release of this toy, but i hope you like it.