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AppGameKit/AppGameKit Studio Showcase / [iOS / Mac] Hackers Online (Universal)

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xGEKKOx
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Posted: 10th Apr 2013 01:20
Ok i returned to work....
Now i completed the Tic Tac Toe AI and i'm about to port my Video Poker to the Hackers Online's minigames.

Next stage are :
- Black Jack
- Horse race
- Missions check

and after those the game is about to be ready.

I will post a video as soon as i can.
Wow i have much things to complete !!!!

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Posted: 17th Apr 2013 04:08
Ok i'm uploading the video with minigames inside.
Now the last thing that i need to program is the mission check and some missions.
The Black jack will be done on the first update.
Aahaha too funny to lose time!!

I will add the video in the new post!

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Posted: 17th Apr 2013 04:27
This is the video of minigames ahaha!



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Posted: 18th Apr 2013 01:37
Really great but ... why it's called "Hackers" Online ?
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Posted: 18th Apr 2013 05:44 Edited at: 18th Apr 2013 05:56
Cause every user can hack other user.
So you need antivirus, scan, remove.... and all the things you need to hack.
Now i'm coding the last part.

I've done the first part to give as much as possible a real OS.
With some minigames to lose time and win or lose GG Coins (in app) and exp & lvls.
You can also post on Facebook from here!!! ahaha
Listen music while hacking, and the rest.

Now come the hard part.
The missions and hacking.
Ah, i've also added the Hardware power input to do a studied hardware shop.
So if you have a 250W power supply, on upper levels you will not able to activate new hardware until you get the new power supply.



I've just completed the Notifications when you are "Under hacker attack!" ahaha.
When you are attacked, based on the virus / trojan send from the hacker he can:
- Keylog you
- Del some files
- Destroy your hard disk
and much other things....

Well, as i always repeat, the order selection of games i do, is not casual.
After this game, will be immediately published 4/5 utility, like the SSH terminal (with the same engine) and the Notepad with speech reading.

I think if users get bored to hack others, can use it as a real os.


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Posted: 18th Apr 2013 05:56
Exciting ! Minigames look good. This is definitely a game with a niche market but I hope it catches on and does well. Can't wait for you to release it!!
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Posted: 18th Apr 2013 18:35
Yes the goal is to test the market for GG Coins and prepare the engine and the database for much other games.
We can say it's a test and a good utility with minigames.

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Posted: 21st Apr 2013 22:54
This looks really impressive xGEKKOx. The last couple of videos wont play for me though as it says they are private. Could you make them public so I can see them? Thanks!

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Posted: 22nd Apr 2013 17:10
Ah maybe the monetizaion.
I close it and will be public!

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Posted: 23rd Apr 2013 10:05
Thanks xGEKKOx, that's done the trick! As I say, this is looking really well developed and polished and I can't wait to give it a try.

You've got a lot of good content there but I guess the main challenge will be making the hacking sufficiently fun. Have you worked out how the hacking is going to work yet? Are the players going to need to know established hacking techniques to be able to play? I wonder, how freeform is the hacking going to be or are there going to be set hacks that you have built into the game for them to "exploit"?

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Posted: 23rd Apr 2013 14:24
Well, as it is a simulations, some commands will bi completely simulated :
- Connecting....
- Sending virus / trojan
- Intercepting...

So the speed of those commands will be based only on the hardware you bought.
So if i'm level 5 and i wanna hack you, if you are level 10 and you have bought a firewall or antivirus, you will be only noticed that someone is trying to hack you.

Else, if you are weak on an attack, a file (if a virus) or a trojan, will be randomly loacted in one of your folders. So you need to go and discover it and delete it.
If the file is in the autoexec, you need also to remove from there.

Well, if it was a complete simulation, it would be more easy to develope. But i decided to do it as a real os, to use when you get bored of the game.
So this make the mission creation more hard, because you need much fantasy.

Finally is also experimental (as FREE with Coins) and i developed it in a way i can add mission in the database without sending updates to Apple. So if no big modifications are needed i can get some time to test the Coins thing.
If this thing go well, i will continue to develope it and update it.
I'm testing the missions, and i must say that is funny.
Who love the consoles and terminal will sure download it.

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Posted: 25th Apr 2013 04:46
I'm debugging the game.
There are some bugs but i'm on the right way.
I've started to update the first post.


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Posted: 30th Apr 2013 17:52 Edited at: 30th Apr 2013 17:53
Lol boys, the game is about complete, i'm debugging it since 5 days.
I had fear it was a stupidity, but when i played it from the begin, i had much fun!!!
And i am very happy.

I will upload the final video soon, that will be also the video for tutorial for first 5 levels.
Now i go on vacation for 2 days!!! I deserve it!!!


Edit : I also added the multiplayer (turn based) in tic tac toe minigame. The multiplayer is based on room on my server and is not by game center.

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Posted: 12th May 2013 21:06
Wow very hard work since some days...
Developing missions is very frustrating to me, cause i get bored soon ahahaha.
Anyway i will release it in some days, and i will add some missions after the release, as i add them on the database.
I done a multi check inside the game to have different kind of missions.
In this way i don't need to update the binary file every time i add missions.


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Posted: 15th May 2013 12:13
Added the last icons to the icon bar to notify viruses or trojan and the buttons for the item mall.

Those are the lastest 2 screen before i add the last icon and i publish the game.

With no avatar...


...and after avatar


i will do the final video when completed.


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Posted: 19th May 2013 17:57
Game sent to Apple.
The is not very complete, but i will update it very much.
I hope it will be accepted!
I will add the link to download it when released.

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Posted: 19th May 2013 18:29
Quote: "Game sent to Apple."

Good luck! Hope you pass validation. Will you be deploying to any other platforms?

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Posted: 20th May 2013 12:24
Well, i always search for news about earning on android and windows on internet, but i always find bad news due to cracking software.
I need someone, who is deploying for android, that share with me some statistics to undesrtand how really the market goes.

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Posted: 21st May 2013 19:54
Lol Hack Online is in review in this moment..... FEEEEAAAARRRRR!!!!

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Posted: 21st May 2013 19:59
Go Gekko! Fingers crossed.
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Posted: 21st May 2013 21:17
Ahahaha, thx xCept, i have the server log opened to see what they do.
But for the moment they didn't opened the app!


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Posted: 26th May 2013 00:37
Lol absurde!
The reviewer rejected again my app telling some things out of the world!!!

Quote: "
2.2

We found that your app exhibited one or more bugs, when reviewed on iPad running iOS 6.1.3, on both Wi-Fi and cellular networks, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.


- App fails to respond to any external keyboard input or produce a keyboard to use. Users are unable to select or use Help.

- Device button is the only button that works,
GG Coins button crashes the app and all other buttons produce no action
"


1) External keyboard now works great (the tab key is impossible to check)
2) GG Coins button crashed cause they blocked in apps (now i unlocked them)
3) Other buttons are notify icons (buttons are only 2, the grey ones)

Is this reviewer stupid or he is kidding me????
I done another appeal, and this time i will never surrender till they accept my app.
I start to get bored!!!!!!


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Posted: 26th May 2013 01:22
How frustrating! I think it seems more likely the reviewer simply doesn't understand the app. Sorry man, hope you get through next time.
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Posted: 26th May 2013 17:45
Ahaha yes xCept, i also added the placeholder in thext field "Command line..." instead of only "..." to let he understand. Ahahaha, is very frustrating.
I'm waiting an email or something. 15 days already passed since the first submission.

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Posted: 29th May 2013 05:06 Edited at: 29th May 2013 05:08
Wow boys, news from Apple look here:
Quote: "
Hello,

We are writing to let you know the results of your appeal for your app, Hack Online.

The App Review Board evaluated your app and determined that the original rejection feedback is invalid.

However, the following issue/s were also discovered during our evaluation:

8.5

We've reviewed your app and determined that we cannot post your application because it appears to include features from The Matrix. Warner Bros. has previously objected to other applications that include features from their productions, and believes that such features infringe its rights.
"


They changed the reviewers, i understood it looking the server log, the Apple ID are different, and also the IP.
Now the new part!!!!!
The Matrix ahuaahuahu.....
The only thing can be similar is this....



But in the icon am i !!!!
And i don't think they have the copyright on the green letter effect.

What do you think?

I asked them to change only the icon if they really need i remove this copyrights infringements.

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Posted: 29th May 2013 09:54
Now they're just giving you a hard time . There are probably thousands of "Matrix" styled apps on iTunes right now that are WAY more similar to that film than your app or icon ever could be. I don't think they can possibly claim your app features content from The Matrix just because of its icon and retro terminal style.

Here's one app that is called Matrix Code Camera with all the green text effects etc.

Another called Matrix Decoded.

Another called Real World Ascii.

If it is the icon they are complaining about, you'll probably still have to reupload it with a new icon of some kind as Apple won't change it themselves. (But look at the icons of some of the apps I mentioned above, Apple had no problem with them).

It highly frustrates me when Apple is completely inconsistent in following their own rules when approving apps!! They need better reviewers
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Posted: 29th May 2013 19:11
Wow xCept you are right, they are giving me hard time. I saw the link you given me and you are "double" right!!!

Well i hope they will give me the possibility to publish the app.
I don't understand why they are doing all this everytime i publish an app.
Bhaaa....

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Posted: 8th Jun 2013 05:15
Wow boys!!!!! The incredible story continue.....
They rejected again!!!

The reviewer changed again as i see from the log in the server, and he said the exactly same word of the first reviewer!!!!!
Absurde!!!!!
This time i appealed again and sent also a express review request and a message.
I'm bombing the Apple staff with emails.
I don't understand they are doing this.
Maybe they don't want my game published?
Or the reviewer is always a stupid??????

I start to think that i can add an Alert View only visible to a reviewer (i know their LAN IP from the server) and i will show an alert with this:

REVIEWER ALERT:
YOU ARE CLICKING ON AN ICON, THIS IS NOT A BUTTON!!!!!
DO YOU EVER SEEN THE ON/OFF LED????? THIS IS THE SAME!!!!!

REVIEWER ALERT:
YOU NEVER USED A CONSOLE/TERMINAL???
START LEARNING USE A PC!!!!

I'm bored.


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Posted: 8th Jun 2013 05:40
Unbelievable! Didn't the last reviewer say "the original rejection feedback is invalid." so why would the reject it again for those same "invalid" reasons? I'm frustrated just waiting so many weeks, I can only imagine how angry you are. This doesn't make any sense, sorry...
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Quote: "REVIEWER ALERT:
YOU NEVER USED A CONSOLE/TERMINAL???
START LEARNING USE A PC!!!!"


Sadly, im assuming that app reviewer is a job that requires a low amount of experience and they probably have no idea how to use a console at all.
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Posted: 8th Jun 2013 21:29
Yes i'm very very angry.
I can accept the reason of "The Matrix" film, but not the same again from the first rejection, after the "the original rejection feedback is invalid".
Anyway i try to be calm and wait till the end of this bad adventure.
Now i wanna see what happen after i done the expedited review + the appeal + continue communication.
Ahahah, i'm in war!!!

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Posted: 9th Jun 2013 03:22
maybe Apple doesn't like italian persons :p :p :p LOL
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Posted: 9th Jun 2013 03:30 Edited at: 9th Jun 2013 03:31
Ahahah yeah.
Well, sometimes i think they don't want my game (this game), it seems they are losing time because someone else have to publish one similar. Strange sensation...

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Posted: 11th Jun 2013 00:34
The game finally is online.
And i already found something don't go, lol!!
A strange bug that never happened before.
I have to investigate.

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Congrats!

I downloaded it, but it crashes at different points and I couldn't do much. I was playing Poker and it crashed (so I couldn't cash out what I had won). After I perform "userlist" the keyboard is always over the command line so I can't see what I'm typing, and each letter I type replaces what I've already typed and starts the animation again so it takes a long time to type out commands. When I try to connect to any IP the app also crashes. Finally, the fact that each directory is case sensitive can make it more tedious to navigate (e.g., "cd games" does not work but "cd Games" does).
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Posted: 12th Jun 2013 01:41 Edited at: 12th Jun 2013 01:43
Yes, ahahah.
Hack Online was attacked by hackers.
They found an hole in the server, but i done backup before launch it ahahah.
I knew there was the possibility to forgot something.
Now i isolated the hack online service under another user so if they delete something, they delete 1Mb of files and i upload immediately.

Also done some fix in the update i already submitted:
- Connect fix
- Facebook invite fix

The game is downloading very much, even the problems.
And i think i will give it for free without in app, cause today i discovered a FAIL in the in app system.
I will do a new thread for this bug on in app from Apple.

And i will donate GGCoins with facebook invitation each 30 min.
Well, as it was a test, i think is going about well.

The name "Hack Online" download very much, the iAd is really going to the stars, the users say that the game is original and maybe will wait we update it (also as it is free).

We will see!!!

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Posted: 13th Jun 2013 17:54
Ok i fixed some bugs and sent another binary.
The game is going great, the users appreciate it even if has bugs.
They said that nobody done a real OS in a game so it's nice.

Well i'm waiting for the update.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 18:16
Wow the game is rising the ranking very well.
I will update it each week to get the download high.

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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 19:20
Congratulations, looks like your work is starting to pay off
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Posted: 18th Jun 2013 21:19
Thx, well first of all, is a satisfaction that the users don't give bad review but are helping me do develop and debug.
The money are coming from the iAD in a big wave.
When Apple will review the 1.2 update, the hack on the IN APP Purchase will be fixed and i will see if the in app will pay too.

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Posted: 10th Jul 2013 04:14
New update is online!
Added some commands :
- edit (to edit or create files)
- internet (to use a browser)

And fixed some bugs.

Long life to Steve!

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