Untrusted – a user JavaScript adventure game (alexnisnevich.github.io)

This is awesome. Very unique puzzles. I have been introducing my students to games that involve programming (I recently made one for them to try called Harvest Memory [1]). This is one of the best I have seen yet. I'll show it to them next class and see how they do.

[1] https://github.com/AZHenley/HarvestMemory

This seems really well done! great job!

Nice!

Also nifty idea to post the solutions as public gists: https://gist.github.com/Untrusted-Game

Unplayable on smaller screens, but will check out later on a larger one.

Is there any way to reset a level or the game completely? I somehow managed to block myself off from the computer on my first edit and now refreshing the game leaves me stuck and unable to access it.

Is anyone aware of other online or gamified security related programming (or other) excercises?

I would be grateful for suggestions, ty.

Do they intend for you to be able to draw more than 1 exit? cuz on the 4th level, i just drew a 2nd exit inside the cell and the game didnt complain when i used it.

Great job!

I wonder if playing this kind of game could be used in an interview setting.

On level 13 the maze was trivial(move down as much as possible then right as much as possible then down to the player). Might need to forbid that.

Good diversion, I'm on level 14.

I very much enjoyed this. Got to level 17 before I ran out of enthusiasm. Level 14 was a sly puzzle, had me stumped for some time.

One of the coolest programming based games I've ever played. I hope to see more like it!

I figured out how to do "SQL Injection" types of attacks against a lot of the levels. I figured this all out without examining any source, BTW - this solution was made purely from in game information. For example, I would never have known about "_endOfStartLevelReached" if the game didn't complain about it being "not a function"

For example, this was my Level 12 solution:

https://gist.github.com/Untrusted-Game/d0f0e7493b39d109a5fe9...

You are supposed to program a robot to traverse a maze, but instead I just ended the robot's function so I could get access to the main scope and do whatever I want:

        }
     });

    map.placeObject(map.getWidth() - 2, 20, 'greenKey');
    map.placeObject(map.getWidth() - 1, map.getHeight() - 1, 'exit');
    
    var tmp = map._endOfStartLevelReached
    
    //Needed so the rest of the function is ignored
    map = {
    "defineObject": () => {},
    "getWidth": () => {},
    "getHeight": () => {},
    "placeObject": () => {},
    "_endOfStartLevelReached": tmp
    };
    
    map.defineObject('robot2', {
        'behavior': function (me) {
        }
    });

I hope they don't fix this though, it was exhilarating (and rewarding) trying to outsmart the game

    map._endOfStartLevelReached();
    return;

It's quite amazing (and quite a lot of ways of cheating are disabled). I got to level 14 by making my player basically become the same as the arrow keys to direct the bot.

Reminds me of the good days of "find the next level" games where the clue could be in an image metadata or just about anything (modern CTF are on a whole other level).

Level 20 is intended to be impossible?

Nice Chip's Challenge homage on level 14... I used to play Chip's Challenge as a kid on my parents' Windows 95 computer.

Fun fact - in Chip's Challenge, the green key could be reused forever while the other keys were one time use

This is great! I did notice it allows me to do infinite loops though and then the whole thing locks up, other than that, very enjoyable!

One thing I like about this game is that it loads and starts very fast. Chromium tells me it loads in 1.05s and starts after an additional 0.01s. That's fast enough that it seems instantaneous to me when I click on the link.

Also, I like the cheating message that you get in the Chromium console (unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in Firefox). :-)

Hey, (one of the) developers here.

It's really exciting to see that there's still interest in this little game Greg and I made all those years ago!

I wrote up a postmortem on Untrusted back in 2014 that may be of interest if you'd like to learn more about how the game was created: http://alex.nisnevich.com/blog/2014/10/17/some_words_on_untr...

I'm happy to answer questions and help anyone's who's stuck and needs a hint, but it seems like the HN community has already been doing a good job of the latter :-)

I'm still experimenting with the fascinating intersection of code, games, and language. Here's the latest thing I'm working on in the area (albeit in a very different vein, and still very much a work-in-progress): http://app.wordbots.io/

Alex

P.S. I though I'd end with a shout-out to some super-cool games by other people that have been inspired by Untrusted: - INJECTION by TOASTEngineer: https://schilcote.itch.io/injection - Programmer Adventure (interface in Russian): https://programmeradventure.github.io/

I got bored with just beating the game and added some flare on level 20 by using a canon and photon torpedoes and kappa-face explosions[1]. Because why not.

[1] https://gist.github.com/Untrusted-Game/70038d1464d11ac270466...

As a developer this is incredible, fun and interesting