Offensive Security Game

[Daniel Toliaferro]

Hey everybody,

So some of you probably already know that there was a small explosion

of indie games about hacking (the media definition) in the early 2000s with

games like Uplink, Dark Signs (never released) and the Hacker Evolution series.

These games were pretty unrealistic, but fun. They had good gameplay and

immersive story lines.

I'm thinking about doing a game like them, but with real operating systems, and

real tools. I was thinking you'd have 2 computers and 2 routers. One to simulate

the Internet and one to simulate an internal network. The computers would be

running multiple virtual machines.

Players would gather together in the same room and take on different roles of the

hack. You'd have one guy doing the information gathering and scanning, another

guy would be bruteforcing passwords, another would be looking for and exploiting

vulnerable services, etc.

Most missions would be stealing data, but sometimes you'd get into the system 

and there would be a mini-game waiting for you that is in context with the mission.

Maybe it's to take down a nation's powergrid, or launch missiles or something.

Story-wise, the guy who's setting up the game would be the Admin, kinda like a

Dungeon Master in D&D. He'd play the role of the client for the players, and

conversations with the client would happen on IRC. Every week or every month

there would be a new adventure waiting for the players.

Like I said in another thread, I took off studying security to study game design

for 2 years. Now that I'm back in security mode, it seems like it could work out

well.

Anybody think this is a cool idea, or am I way off?

- Dan

[Jonathan Ryan]

I think it's a very good idea but you're going to need a lot of scenarios for players to play with.

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[Daniel Toliaferro]

Yeah, that's the hard part. I suppose as I learn more about security the more scenarios

I'll come up with.

Thanks for the reply.

[NetBuoy]

That is a fantastic idea… I would love to be a part of this. There is an interesting website called Telehack http://telehack.com/ which is really cool…

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[kbenjamin Coplon]

here is another
http://www.indiedb.com/games/hacknet/

[Jonathan Ryan]

I'd help with this if you want. Just let me know when you wanna get started.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:56 AM, kbenjamin Coplon <mr....@gmail.com> wrote:

here is another
http://www.indiedb.com/games/hacknet/

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[Daniel Toliaferro]

Cool, thanks man.