Hacking in
A Dark Room

Sam Backus

Suzi Curran

Tonight we'll cover

• What is "A Dark Room"?

• Hacking as gameplay

• Live-editing HTML

• Executing JavaScript in the console

• Live-editing JavaScript

• Discoveries through hacking

• Q&A

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What is "A Dark Room"?

Browser-based text adventure

Players collect resources and build tools

Provides non-minified JavaScript

Hacking as Gameplay

What do we mean by hacking?

Circumventing intended behavior

Why not play the game as intended?

Please do! This is just another form of play.

Is this illegal?
Short answer: No!

Demo:

Chrome Developer Tools

Let's Get Started

adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com

Please raise your hand if you have questions

We will regroup for discussion in ~30 minutes

Discoveries

How far did you get?

What tools were helpful?

What did you learn?

Questions?

Thanks for playing!

@SamBackus

@SuziCurran

Samuel.Backus@gmail.com

SuziCurran@gmail.com

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