Current status (jan 1st 2025)

Overview of the current build:

1. Same base game as the gamejam final release
2. Adds some experimental features that are NOT YET integrated with the quests/missions (the next few updates will start to add new missions that work with the new features, and make extensive use of them)
3. Includes an optional 'add your own private ChatGPT key' feature to enable advanced AI/LLM features

Feature 1: AI/LLM

• If you provide a valid GPT key during the tutorial, AI-NPCs will be automatically created and enabled when you start the game
• If you have a bunch of long conversations with the AI NPCs it will cost you approx $0.02 on your GPT API account (this is OpenAI's direct fee - I get nothing, you're paying OpenAI directly to access their LLM)
• Some of the AI NPCs are configured to automatically start talking to you (e.g. AI-Mom)
• Most of the AI NPCs will wait for you to talk to them - just say 'hi' and it will kickstart their specific quest/situation
• NOTE: their quests are NOT integrated with the main plot/quest-line yet, they are for 'fun' only right now
• Some of the AI NPCs are configured to try and extract information out of you, the player (!) - these ones will output debugging info on each conversation message, so you can see what they 'think' they've learned from you

Feature 2: 'dig'

• Whenever you learn the address of a new server, you can try running 'dig' on it from your Terminal
• "dig [server address]"
• This operates like the real-world DNS system and dig command, but greatly simplified
• dig tells you some info about the corporate network that the server is on / the owner of the server
• dig (like with real world DNS) can be applied not just to a server but to a domain (e.g. not only 'www.corporation.com' but also 'corporation.com' which isn't acutally a server, it's just an address)
• For scalability reasons (and to prevent the game being too easy) if you dig a top-level domain (e.g. "dig com" for the .com TLD) then it will deliberately avoid giving you the entire list of every subdomain  ... but if you dig a secondary or below domain (e.g. "dig google.com") then it will give you all servers that exist in "google.com" -- NB: google.com doesn't currently exist in the game, so that's not a real example!
• Futrue builds will add secret info in the dig results for various corporate domains, add new servers that are wroth hacking but only findable by 'dig'ging the corporate network, etc.