The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.
This game has 3 metrics to measure your solution: cycles, size, and activity. I'll aim to get in to the TOP_PERCENTILE score in each category using the same codebase. This, however, may be impossible to achieve. Therefore, I am including a folder for each metric with a solution in each focusing on that objective alone.
Each solution folder with have a README with the following information:
- Puzzle Title
- Puzzle Description
- Recorded .GIF Solution
- Link to each metric's solution
If I can complete the task using the same codebase, I will mark the solution as Optimal.
Below are the definitions for the metrics, as far as the game is considered.
Your cycles score is the number of turns it takes your EXA to complete the task.
Your size score is the total number of instructions in all of your EXAs, including MARK pseudo-instructions.
Your activity score is the number of times EXAs you control execute LINK or KILL instructions.
| puzzle | cycles | size | activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Trash World News (Tutorial 1) Learn to explore networks and leave no trace. |
4* | 3* | 2* |
| 02 Trash World News (Tutorial 2) Learn to edit files and manipulate values. |
7* | 6* | 2* |
| 03 Trash World News (Tutorial 3) Learn to communicate between EXAs. |
10 | 12* | 3* |
| 04 Trash World News (Tutorial 4) Learn to do something more than once. |
406 | 14 | 2* |
| 05 Euclid's Pizza Cause a pizza to be delivered to your apartment. |
19 | 12+ | 1* |
| 06 Mitsuzen HDI-10 (Left Arm) Hack your body to repair a damaged nerve in your arm. |
241 | 23 | 6* |
| 07 Last Stop SNAXNET Cause the Last Stop factory to produce peanut-free Peanut Blast bars. |
29* | 11* | 2* |
| 08 Zebros Copies Erase the record of Ghast's debt to the copy shop. |
148 | 29 | 4 |
| 09 SFCTA Highway Sign #4902 Change the message on an electronic highway sign. |
169 | 27 | 2 |
| 10 Unknown Network 1 Find and retrieve a specific file for EMBER-2. |
29 | 20 | 27* |
| 11 UC Berkeley Restore a file from an antiquated backup system. |
412 | 43 | 8 |
| 12 Workhouse Modify the WorkHouse database so EMBER-2's activity is less suspicious. |
677 | 30 | 2* |
| 13 Equity First Bank Cause multiple automated teller machines to spit out cash. |
3009 | 36 | 10* |
| 14 Mitsuzen HDI-10 (Heart) Hack your heart so it continues to beat properly. |
92+ | 33 | 7* |
| 15 Trash World News Replace words in a message sent to Ghast to change its meaning. |
1508 | 30 | 4 |
| 16 KGOG-TV (Battle 1) Compete with an opponent for control over a television station. |
S+ | ||
| 17 TEC Redshift™ Gain access to the TEC Redshift development kit. |
5960 | 23 | 7 |
| 18 Redshift™ Homebrew Create your own games for the TEC Redshift. (Optional) |
n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 18 Digital Library Project Copy requested books on various topics from a digital library. |
345 | 40 | 83 |
* represents a TOP_PERCENTILE solution.
+ represents a TENTH_PERCENTILE solution.