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

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
PublisherRyan Helsing
Release date May 13, 0202
Authorrhelsing
GenrePlatformer
Made withGodot
Tagsicg, themoviethegamethejam
ContentNo generative AI was used

Download

Download
Hack The Planet.exe 600 MB
Download
Hack The Planet.zip 384 MB
Download
Hack The Planet.x86_64 568 MB

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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