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Hacking game story line

by GAMEHACK3R · in General Discussion · 09/09/2008 (7:42 pm) · 5 replies

Ive been working on this game by myself now for quite a few months ,atm called "Hack3r"
(its a Hacking simulation game) the GUI and functionality of the game are almost complete.
But im stumped for a story line. Heres a little about the game.

HACK3R is a single player "hollywood style" hacking simulation game.

The player takes on the roll of a hacker.
The game is set in the an imaginary world similar to our own today where huge corporations
control everything. The fact is , everything is tagged , catalogued and cross-indext . The internet knows all , and few escape its reach. With the right search programs, you can find out just about anything about anyone, hackers however are ghosts in the information machine, faceless individuals who have the skills corporations need.

They are vital because they are deniable assets: invisible and untraceable. They dont exist as far as society is concerned, so they can do the corporations dirty work. In short the corporations let them exist because they find them useful.
After all there is no profit in wiping out a useful asset.


Heres what i have got for a story so far

it revolves around the corporations gaining their Diplomatic immunity and the fall of 1 of the AAA corporations and the rise of 3 new
AAA corporations and their joining into the Corporate Court

News headlines start with the joining of a new member of the Corporate court

Diplomatic immunity
the Corporate Court invites the world governments to a Gathering and bring forth a Universal stardard for deciding exactly what it means and who gets it. Called the Recognition Accords (RA). All of the countries that signed on had to adjust their laws to comply with the standards (which is every country) Initially 2 countries do not sign the accord US and Russia(?) they are both pressured into signing it in a short time the court decides which companies get the Diplomatic immunity and expected that every country that signed the accord extend the privilege to that corp. when japan tries to reject the Chinese company the govt gets "pressured" into accepting them by the Corporate court

through out the story the player attacks resulting in it reaching the point that the corporation begins to fall apart . The other corporations begin a feeding frenzy snatching up parts of it as their stock plummets it looses so much that 2 smaller companies are now large enough to join the corporate court ..


the leader of leaves their corporation and becomes a board member of their biggest rival
then a few months later the rival company begins to make massive technological breakthroughs internally begins to fight inhouse increasing its instability
Meanwhile the corporate court is crushing the smaller corporations which are picking up the pieces of the
as they do not want another upstart joining their exclusive club
formally accuses of industrial espionage. The former leader of leaves < company rival> and sells his stock.
Meanwhile another boardmember forms < new company> and begins discreetly buying up parts of ( He knew that the rival factions were trying to force him out so he was geting rady to jump ship) He offers the former leader of a job
then 2 corporate court representatives are killed in separeate incidents .one being from
the is accepted into the corporate court. But now is too weak and
is Officially dessolved. takes a large part . and gobble up what remains of the company.

in desparation the merges with saving them from total collapse and giving rise to the new corporation.

the repercussion of the above events are felt world wide with governments collapsing and wars breaking out globally


im not a writer by a long shot and it shows.
Ideas anyone ??????

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btw i will give credits for any ideas that i use

#1
09/09/2008 (8:10 pm)
Hmm without knowing the mechanics, I would perhaps use the 3 Mega-corps as your storyline. with the real storyline starting after the above incidents. Ever Read the Shadowrun series? the Deckers and megacorps are a huge part of the storyline. I suggest checking some of the material out there, might give you a large amount of ideas.

Off the top of my head, have missions that involve recovering X number of items or datafiles from X corperation. With of course the Datafiles being part of some global plan to take over the other 2, and maybe through in a 4th secret trust company that is mastermining a coup of the biggest one. Again, i could probably do better with more informations about the mechanics, but the shadowrun lead is alot of material. (and im talking about the rpg pen and paper, not the horror of a game that was the shooter)
#2
09/09/2008 (9:17 pm)
This story sounds, in many ways, similar to "The Heretic" by Jason K. Chapman. You should read that book, perhaps draw some inspiration.

www.jasonkchapman.com/heretic_online/
#3
09/10/2008 (1:54 am)
Hmm, even though its slightly twisted storyline this sounds very much like Netrunner based on William Gibson's cyberpunk science fiction version of the future under the MegaCorps!

Looking 'very much' forward to any news!
#4
09/10/2008 (3:28 am)
One suggestion, and that is all this is, is to form an uprising around your hero. Start him off as a nobody and have the groups working pretty much lone wolf and low key. Build up the people around your character and as the game progresses make things more dangerous by having the corporation declare war on the unknowns and many in your group getting taken out. Toward the end the game should come down to you and one other key character with a cliff hanger ending of do or die. That other character could optionally be a romantic interest of your character.

Good luck, what you have here sounds great.
#5
09/11/2008 (5:16 am)
Thanks for the replies , im glad some of you liked the ideas. I have moved this thread to Development Community Discussions >> Game Ideas
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=78991