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I like the idea but I think its a very difficult kind of game to tackle. I am an avid developer and I feel conmfortable in the CLI but I wouldn’t expect a novice to be able to pick it up quickly. On the other hand, I felt there was no interesting challenge for me and there were many details I wish would work, like being able to navigate to directories in the terminal and lookng for stuff. Looks like most commands that are not recognized just return an echo.

Selecting the soundtrack was a nice touch but I would had made that also an “app” :)

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Yep I failed at 'the first 30 seconds' -- didn't do anywhere near enough to ease people in.

Ironically I deliberately made the early servers (and your local terminal) have very few binaries to try and keep it simpler to get started. If you continue past the first 2-3 missions you get to servers that have a lot richer - e.g. file system with /home, /bin, etc and a BASH shell.

I think three big improvements would be: 1. change 'terminal' so it immediately starts with a popup of 'enter hostname to connect to', and 2. make the first 30 seconds much more hand-held, and 3. give more indication that you will unlock richer servers later.

(+4: add even more richness to the later servers. Currently they only have a filesystem and basic file-append, file-read, file-copy commands).

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Based on comments from you and the other playtesters, I've added a whole tutorial (disguised as a 'finish installing your OS' wizard), and in-game hacking manual. Live now if you select 'Gamejam+ tutorial' on startup.