Hack the Planet
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
AJ answers a call to enter cyberspace. This is a submission to https://itch.io/jam/the-movie-the-game-the-jam .
Credits
Team
Game — Ryan Helsing
Design and Characters — Laurel Moore
Music — Tyler Ono
Music — Griffin Knock
Game Ideation - Dustin Garner
Playtesting
Nolan Cooper
Kyra Rush
3D Models/Animations — Sketchfab (CC-BY 4.0)
Thank you to the Sketchfab community whose models bring the Gibson to life.
Floppy by ocean — https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/floppy-289fccd9b1904d32afe8fab12cd4994a
Public Phone Booth by tribhuvantechnoart — https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/public-phone-booth-d86b8632da384514965b9d9208153...
Sci-Fi Laptop (alternative 90s) by holgcool — https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/sci-fi-laptop-alternative-90s-1d67104ac71c495293...
Floating Robot by nada.elshorbagi — https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/floating-robot-20dd7f7bdc9a4c36aef491f12afa14d8
Anime Character (Free) by Legend — used in-game as Dialtone — https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/anime-character-free-b308a290e1944da4bc84c9a74e3...
3D Models — Other
KayKit Mannequin Character Pack + animations — https://kaykit.itch.io/
AJ, Splice, Nyx skins + rigs — https://www.mixamo.com/
Icons
Lordicon — animated walkie-talkie HUD icon — https://lordicon.com/
Animation
Mixamo — humanoid rigs and motion-capture animations — https://www.mixamo.com/
Music
Original Music — Tyler Ono
Original Music — Griffin Knock
& interpersonal arbitrage - Ryan Helsing
this is me letting you go - Ryan Helsing
for new drugs- Ryan Helsing
Original tracks by Ryan Helsing & Matthew Saltz:
Vibes A
Vibes B
Vibes C
Vibes D
Licensed / sourced tracks:
One Love — The Prodigy
Halcyon + On + On — Orbital
A Song To Fall Through Textures — Dopo Goto
The Songs From The Disc Three — Dopo Goto
Sound Effects
Sourced from the amazing creator communities at:
Pixabay — foley, UI clicks, ambient one-shots, footsteps, bounces, impacts, deaths, misc — https://pixabay.com/
Alex_Kizenkov — https://pixabay.com/users/alex_kizenkov-33612407/
Sketchfab — additional foley and one-shots — https://sketchfab.com/
Code / Tools / Engines
Godot Engine — game engine — https://godotengine.org/
Dialogue Manager by Nathan Hoad — dialogue tree runtime — https://github.com/nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager
GDQuest — base player controller reference -- AMAZING — https://www.gdquest.com/
Inigo Quilez — shader / noise / SDF references — https://iquilezles.org/
Logos & Brands
Jolt Cola — vintage logo used in-game
Inspired by:
Astrobot
Mario
Disco Elysium
The Witness
Inside
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Matrix
and of course: Hackers (1995)
Thanks mom
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Publisher | Ryan Helsing |
| Release date | May 13, 0202 |
| Author | rhelsing |
| Genre | Platformer |
| Made with | Godot |
| Tags | icg, themoviethegamethejam |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
Download
Install instructions
WINDOWS
Run Hack The Planet.exe. SmartScreen will gatekeep — click "More info" → "Run anyway". It's not signed because game jam.
MAC
Unzip and open. macOS will refuse the first time — right-click → Open → Open.
Apple Silicon and Intel both supported.
Hardcore route if right-click doesn't work:
xattr -cr ~/Downloads/Hack\ The\ Planet.app
LINUX
May need to: chmod +x "Hack The Planet.x86_64"


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