I think the words are appropriate for their difficulty. Though could you explain the theme names? I’ve never heard of a Station Network nor a Satellite Network. Do you think players will be able to understand them and guess the words associated with them?
My themes:
Easy - Your current location:
- Table
- Chair
- Computer
- Mouse
- Room
Medium - Urban Dictionary (random entries from UD):
- Posse
- Australian
- Moobs
- Whipped
- Random
Difficult - Oxford English Dictionary (tough random entries from OED):
- Colossal
- Grapiness
- Suede
- Fingerful
- Dictionary
for the medium and difficult themes there will also be tips after a certain amount of time and/or they will be buyable for a deduction in points.
Hello, all! I posted my car scene not too long ago, with my trailers and cars, and now I’m on the next project.
I considered that my original and first inspiration and target audience for games would be my children, so they have inspired my themes for the Terminal Hacker.
Easy Level
Disney Princesses
Anna, Belle, Ariel, Moana, Merida
Medium Level
Favorite Meals
Potatoes, Chicken, Macaroni, Ice Cream, Sandwich
Difficult Level
Star Wars
Phasma, Dagobah, Organa, Wookie, Rebellion
I think these words would provide them with a bit of a challenge.
BTW - I was reviewing the themes other people have chosen so far, and my favorite so far is from the movie War Games. One of my favorite movies from when I was a kid.
Great choice!
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Hey, all! I decided to make mine cyberpunk. It’s quite a bit William Gibson/virtual reality inspired.
surface (easy) -
bogus
crash
frack
shiny
nerf
gateway (medium)
cryonic
fractal
hacker
neural
shaman
embedded (hard) -
cyberpunk
artificial
interface
slipstream
virtuality
Love this theme! Definitely crossed my mind after bombing an exam.
Hey all,
Had a good time reading everyone’s themes.
My theme is hacking space-themed computer systems:
Easy - Bruce Elementary Astronomy Club
- pizza
- nike
- drake
- summer
- monster
Medium - Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at University of Toronto
- wormhole
- einstein
- paradox
- velocity
- gravity
Hard - Area 51
- xenomorph
- tunguska
- extraterrestrial
- singularity
- disinformation
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Hi all, here are my themes and words.
Easy: School: Apple, Bell, Grade, Learn, Teacher,
Medium: State: Attorney, Courtroom, Governor, Policeman, Secretary.
Hard: Federal: Administration, Amendments, Bureaucracy, Electoral, Judiciary.
Easy - House
mouse
apple
pizza
bowl
paper
Medium - Computer Museum
keyboard
printer
monitor
controller
motherboard
Hard - White House
government
assembly
spokesman
interpretor
administrator
My Themes and words
Easy - Lighthouse Operator:
Fish
Tan
Sun
Ball
Sea
Medium - Observatory Worker:
Planet
Comet
Nebula
Meteor
Vacuum
Hard - United States Geological Survey Scientist:
Beryl
Geothermal
Tectonic
Seismic
Feldspar
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Injoyed viewing all your selections.
Easy “Farm Names”
(Tree, Ston, Seed, Crop, Dust)
Medium “School Names”
(Teacher, Student, Lecture, Attempt, Benefit)
Hard “Words that ends with *****tion”
(Education, Emulation, Operation, Selection, Variation)
easy: Cafe Stuff
bill
menu
food
drink
cafe
medium: Computer Stuff
kernel
backup
browser
firewall
malware
hard: Music Stuff
Bolero
Diminuendo
Exposition
Mandolin
Orchestration
I’m gonna go with a Food theme !
Easy (Bakery)
- bread, croissant, pastry, cake, frosting
Medium (Pizzeria)
- mushroom, mozzarella, tomato, italian, crust
Hard (Gourmet)
- restaurant, champagne, esthetic, delicious, papillote
That’s what I came up with:
Easy: Local Computer Store - computer, mouse, keyboard, monitor, laptop
Medium: IT Company - database, tester, programmer, software, developer
Hard: NASA - interstellar, spacecraft, aeronautics, stratosphere, gravitational
I went with a Shadowrun theme for my game, Shadowrun was a popular tabletop roleplaying game in the late 80’s (still around today as well) and it features hackers called Deckers so when I think hacking that’s where I go. Made the last one an extra challenge using words from the Lore of Shadowrun that only someone experienced with it’s setting would recognize.
Stuffer Shack Public Grid (Easy)
- cheese, onions, cookie, tissue, burger
Lonestar Municipal Grid (Medium)
- password, suspects, criminal, evidence, bribed
Aztechnology Private Grid (Hard)
- dunkelzahn, bloodline, snohomish, shadowrunner, bloodmage
I went a bit current affairs:
Easy(3-5): Trump’s twitter account
sad
wall
maga
worst
bigly
Medium(6-8): The DNC Servers
emails
sanders
hillary
russia
password
Hard(9-10): Cambridge Analytica
controlled
unethical
zuckerburg
datamining
bigbrother
lol
Here’s a sample of my word list. No theme, just ramped up difficulty.
Easy
- Autumn
- Chilly
- Peaceful
- Slip
- Yesterday
Medium
- Benign
- Disgruntled
- Onslaught
- Tycoon
- Wrangle
Hard
- Zeitgeist
- Entomology
- Quotidian
- Ubiquitous
- Whet
No need to make a new topic for such a few words. I add up to this one.
I’m going with the theme: investigation about a conspiracy.
I have some idea in the back of my head to add some thrive to the mini game. Let’s see if it lead me somewhere interresing.
-
Police Station (easy)
law
gun
star
thief
cuffs -
Military Center (medium)
missile
weapons
warfare
soldiers
airships -
CIA servers (hard)
earthlings
watergate
conspiracies
governments
counterterrorism
Still subject to changes as I come up with better ideas.
I have to say, I tend to overthink such things as I tend to make things too hard.
To then balance words out between 3 difficulty modes is definitely not easy, as even really long words can become easier to see than shorter words with many more valid word combinations. Also do I use American spelling or British spelling. I started out very creative and then went back to actual words. Even though I think code could provide alot of interesting ideas.
Either way I stopped at these for now:
Simple users:
- 12345
- word
- abcde
- qwerty
- secret
Average user:
- birthday
- username
- leetspeak
- address
- password
Advanced:
- anniversary
- colourcoded
- cryptography
- randomization
- multiplication
