Black Grid
Dive into the shadow network. Start as a freelance hacker mining unsecured networks for cryptocoins. Upgrade your rig, crack tougher firewalls, and rise through digital ranks—but beware: the AI surveillance system known only as ARCHON is watching.
As whispers of hidden factions and a growing digital war reach your terminal, your simple mining career becomes a fight for digital autonomy—or domination.
Features:
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Terminal-style idle gameplay
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Mining, cracking, and tool upgrades
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Dynamic exchange economy
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Contracts, missions, and hidden story events
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Faction alignment and trace risk mechanics
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Prestige and skill tree systems
You’re not just a hacker. You’re a threat. Welcome to the Black Grid.
This game is still in very early development. Please expect bugs and report any you find!
note from the author:
Hey guys! Thanks for checking out the game. This project is still in active development and i would love any feedback you can provide. Who knows maybe you'll see your ideas in the game! This is the first game ive ever attempted to produce but dont hold back on me, if something needs to change or needs improvement let me know!
Development log
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worry not sentinel. your game is of great quality. hold out for the creative ones to input their intellect. you shall persevere
I like it.
I think there might be a problem with the story flags though. I got to the part where you're supposed to choose a faction and the popup kept reappearing every second even after I chose. I think it's because the story flag for each faction intro was set but not unset when the "choose" popup appeared.
Also, the instructions say to type join [FACTION] but the actual command is join[FACTION] with no space.
Cool game. Hope you continue.
These should be fixed in the recent bugfix! If they still persist let me know!
their should be a way to select a name or ip. like shift or ctrl and up or down to select the name.similar to certain recall commands for coding still pretty cool so far help n command should be on first page idk what [key] is for skills and google does not either
Was just thinking about that while playing myself. Will definitely be in the next update.
absolute lad. thank you fire music. I was watching a youtube video in the background and was sad to pause it to play, then went back to this and went yaaaaaasssss. 80's hardcore action hack music!!
I came back to play it because I kept getting too afraid of the trace. I restarted to try to prestige and failed. realising it wasn't the end of the world I got to see a lot more of the mechanics. I can give many notes but a fair amount is slightly broken. I think there is no way to purchase skills. the store increases are bugged. the increase from new ips and the 25% upgrade seem non working.didnt get farther but I accidently clicked to see if I could message you directly and lost all progress. will be back tmrw to try to prestige. which I was right before. but like 10/10 so far
yeah prestige hasn’t been 100% added yet I’ll have to double check the store again. Bug reports are very much appreciated so keep em coming! Currently working on another update so should have that coming either today or tomorrow
ill be back today again but those traces to evade, should be a bit longer to type for evade. if I click the notification or anything else its hard to get back to text and its a tiny bit short. maybe make it like 10 secs. or make a shop thing for harder encryption aka more time to evade? maybe making a scaled list for each type of encryption. like wep or wpa2 or what have you has less time before traced or just higher bitcoin. it feels off they all give one or however many upgrades you got. but still awesome. feels like I'm hacking and the world is watching lol. 10/10 still
This should be addressed now! I updated the evade timers to reflect the strength of security. also the more secure nodes now give more crypto making them more valuable.