// Hard Reset

This game was created using Claude AI and this is my contribution to the JAM AI Directed. All code and logic was created with the help of claude.ai, and the cover image was created with Bing Image AI.

The Story

The year is 2087. Five megacorporations have seized control of every byte of data flowing through the global network. Privacy is extinct. Freedom is a memory. Human consciousness itself has become their commodity.

You are a netrunner operating from the digital underground—a ghost in the machine armed with nothing but your skills, determination, and a burning desire for justice. Your sister vanished while investigating corporate memory experiments, leaving behind only encrypted coordinates to an underground bulletin board called SHADOWBOARD.

//HARD RESET is an authentic terminal-based hacking simulator that puts you behind the keyboard of a cyberpunk rebel. Navigate corporate networks using real Unix-style commands. Deploy social engineering tactics to gather intelligence. Battle through layers of black ICE and adaptive AI security. Steal their secrets, expose their crimes, and follow the digital breadcrumbs to uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very essence of human consciousness.

Four progressive missions take you from simple data theft to infiltrating military-grade corporate fortresses. Each job requires different tools, tactics, and moral choices. Will you use stealth or brute force? Save everyone or prioritize the mission? The revolution's success depends on your decisions.

The corporations stole the future. It's time to steal it back.

How To Play

Start by typing jobs to see available contracts, then accept job001 to begin the tutorial mission. Use terminal commands like connect <target>, scan, hack <system>, and download <file> to infiltrate corporate networks and steal their data. Buy hacking tools with your earned credits using buy <item> to tackle harder jobs that require social engineering, ICE combat, and advanced security bypass. Progress through four increasingly difficult missions to rescue your sister and ultimately destroy the corporate AI nexus that enslaves humanity's consciousness.