#unhack 2

Steam Winter Sale (12/21/2017 - 1/04/2018)

Steam’s storewide annual winter sale is now ongoing until January 1st.

Many of the visual novels available on Steam are currently on sale so make sure to grab one while you still can!

Mod Picks:

Beyond Eden (Boys’ Love; 18+)

Blackberry Honey (Yuri)

Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome (Otome)

Gahkthun of the Golden Lightning (Bishoujo; 18+)

The Letter (General)

Unhack 2 Behind-the-Scenes: Development Challenges

Unhack 2's launch week has come to a close. Thank you to everyone who picked up the game ! Software developers know the 90-90 pattern. When a program is 90% complete, another 90% always creeps up. This applies to game projects as well, but in Unhack 2's case, it felt more like 90-90-90. The first draft of Unhack 2 was a disaster . In Unhack 1, I was able to hide a lot of flaws through gameplay, but with Unhack 2, my lack of skills became apparent. To tell a good story, you may for instance wish to describe the senses. What does a place smell like? How does it feel to touch this wall? Every step was a nightmare with Unhack 2 thanks to the AI cast. Program X can describe what something smells like, but can she experience it? I rewrote the script, and once again, nothing made sense. At that point, I had spent a significant sum on production. If this were a novel, where the only cost is time, I might have abandoned the project.

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InvertMouse’s Unhack 2 is currently available on Steam for $6.99. A demo can be downloaded for free through the game’s official website.

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Unhack 2 Now on Live on Steam

InvertMouse’s Unhack 2, a sequel to Unhack, is now available on Steam! For a limited time until January 19th, Unhack 2 can be purchased for 15% off.

Relevant Links:

Official Site (Demo)

Trailer

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Circus Reviews - Unhack 2 (repost)

Because I've been living in a dark hole, I completely forgot to post when my review of Unhack went up. So now you get it as a double feature with my review of its sequel, Unhack 2! We're just going to say that this was planned.

Circus Reviews - Unhack:

https://animebackgrounds.co/unhack-review/

Circus Reviews - Unhack 2:

https://animebackgrounds.co/unhack-2-review/

Unhack 1, Cursed Sight, Without Within—just about all of my titles come with a digital artbook available as an add-on. Unhack 2 will be no different, so let's take a sneak peek at what we can expect to see.

First, the artbook will include your standard set of character sprites, CGs and backgrounds. Each image will come coupled with a brief commentary on the thought processes that took place during development.

The Unhack 2 artbook will also feature a power chart that shows how capable each programmer and AI is in combat. A² always says she is the strongest AI, well, we will see about that, because characters from Unhack 1 are also included in this book.

Players have mentioned they wished these artbooks would include early sketches used during development. I want to honor that request, so Unhack 2's artbook will feature behind the scene sketches shared between Rosuuri and me.

Hello everyone! Hope you are doing well. Thank you for getting Unhack 2 greenlit!

Matt Hamm, our composer, recently showed us his studio in a quick video, so I want to share that with you:

https://youtu.be/OR2fT8SBUGQ

Now for the second topic of this post. Unhack 2’s script has gone through several rounds of revisions, and after receiving player feedback, I have decided the story needs further editing. I have passed the stage where I desperately try to please everyone, but in this case, almost everyone has raised the same issues, so I have to address them.

Previous games like Cursed Sight and Without Within are ultimately about the relationships between people. I am used to handling that. The link between human and AI, however, provides a new challenge. Unhack 2 is longer and more complex than the first game, which means more opportunities for mistakes as well, and I have definitely made plenty.

I will allocate an extra month or so to revisit the story several more times. Nobody likes delays, especially not the person who has been staring at this script for the past six months, but I am already thinking of solutions to the problems raised by readers, and the potential excites me.

Rather than bragging about how awesome this game is going to be, once in a while, I want to share my struggles and failures with you. Not for long, though. I am heading back to work, so please look forward to the result.

Four years after the Motherworm’s death, a masked AI known as Program X is threatening to throw cyberspace back into chaos.

With virus numbers back on the rise, the unhacker decides to open Smash Security once more. This time, a new AI named Neonya is there to battle by his side. Victory should be guaranteed with a superior AI like Neonya, but with signs of malfunction showing, the risk of her going rogue is ever present. She merely wishes to be accepted as her company’s official AI, yet the unhacker finds himself unable to crown her. After all, doing so will mean dethroning his former companions, the ones he still thinks about to this day.

But there is one thing that terrifies the unhacker above all else—why do Program X and her minions look so much like friends from a distant past?

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Unhack 2 is a sequel to the first game I ever published here on Steam. Back then, I tried so hard to merge storytelling with gameplay. Looking back, the result was so-so, but history is history.

I have recently shifted my focus onto narrative oriented titles, and Unhack 2 will follow this trend. This sequel is a 45,000 word (just like Cursed Sight) visual novel that is linear in nature, so it is a kinetic novel to be precise.

Unhack 1 is several years old now, so I fully understand if gamers think it shows its age. Unhack 2 will start with a summary of the first game, allowing new players to jump right in. For those who want to dig deeper, there are complete playthroughs of the first game available on YouTube.

Throughout Unhack 2, players will be tasked with finding a series of passcodes needed to proceed. As the story progresses, some passwords will require players to break out of the 4th wall. For instance, there might be a hint sitting somewhere on the Unhack 2 website. These challenges can be skipped for those who prefer to concentrate on the narrative.

Website: http://unhack2.invertmouse.com

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