Hello, everyone! I'm Gregory Avery-Weir.
I'm part of Future Proof Games and I am going to teach you how to play our
social cyberpunk puzzle game Exploit: Zero Day.
So what we have here is we have a
cluster called "Welcome to the Darknet."
This is the first cluster that you're
going to get through a job
and it's going to be given to you by the mysterious head of the hacker organization ZeroDay who's named sk3tch.
She's sort of the welcoming
character to you as you enter the
mysterious world of hackers and 
corporate conspiracy.
Now, this is a cluster, and each cluster is made up of a number of systems.
In this case, I've beaten this cluster already with this
account so everything is unlocked but
your first time going through this
cluster you'll need to solve each system.
Each system is individual puzzle
and each system will give you a key that
will unlock additional systems. This is a
straightforward one; you just go along
the top row and then along the bottom
row. Some clusters will branch,
some clusters will do more interesting things.
Let's jump right into the first
puzzle here: "Unprotected Root." So this is
a system; we call this a "matrix puzzle"
and the goal of a matrix puzzle is to fire a
packet from these ports and get a packet
all the way to the goal node, which is
this green pyramid. This is a pretty
straightforward one. When I click on this
port, it's gonna launch a packet and...
...hack into the goal node. So we've heard this system. we've
completed it, we can go back to the
cluster, and if I had not beaten this
before we would now unlock
"Route Around the Firewall" for the first time. So this
system introduces two new kinds of nodes.
There's this red diamond that is the
blocker node that just will stop a
packet and this purple splitter node
that's shaped like a cube will split a packet so
if you hit it from the left side one
packet will go up and one packet will go
down so as you can see I can launch from
this port and the packet can just get blocked.
But if I launch here... splits, splits, splits, and system is complete.
So our next new kind of node is the flip-flop node.
So flip-flop nodes maintain state within a system.
So these blue rectangles are the flip-flop nodes.
These three are on and this one's off.
And you can tell that they're on because
they've got a little marker in them.
Any node that they're hooked to will be
turned on or off by their state. So I can
hit them with a packet and flip them on and off.
You can see the ports take a
little while to restore once you fire
packet from them. So this is still a
pretty straightforward system. We can see
our goal node here. We need to hit it
with a packet from this port, so we're
going to use these flipflops and leave this one off
so all these are deactivated, and launch. You can tell that they're deactivated because they're dark in color.
Now it's time for "Firewall Patch Job."
This is a bit of a test of what you've learned so far,
so you'll see that this is a lot
similar in structure to the one where we first
introduced splitter nodes but we've got
some obstacles in the way. So, we want to
hit one of these with one of these.
This one right here is looking like a red
herring right now because even if we
unblock this blocker, we'll just run into
this one here. So I think that this is
our most promising port, so let's just
trace the path it'll take.
It bounces here so we need to deactivate this blocker.
Goes over here, goes over here...
and we need to be able to hit it right
from there, so we'll do that.
Let's see what that does. And good!
Our next system is this precisely timed to buffer overflow so
these gold circles are spheres are
behind those and they work like flip
flops that they deactivate other nodes
but they lead time and so when you're
using a system like this you have to
carefully pay attention to the timing of
when you activate buffers is otherwise
you'll run at a time so if I just do
this if you've got mobility issues or
otherwise are very good at it
timing based puzzles are games we've got
a setting that lets you slow down these
systems that you can take your time and
understand them but let's see if I can
do this in real time so I am going to
knock out these bloggers as the packet
begins to hit them so this is gonna
bounce back and forth and finally hit
that goal
now this is the rate limiter limitation
of the system introduces the latter note
that's this light blue canister or
cylinder and this is kind of like a
buffer load combined with a blocker node
when you hit it with a packet goes away
for a long time so in order to get
something passed it you have no I think
the timing on this is such that if I'm
really good and fast I can just get off
for these and launch it but I'm not
going to risk it when I hit this one
first and then launched and then real
quick get these three
how about these two and then that one of
them there
keys to the system heart introduces
these keynotes now you can see I've only
got two ports here and these clearly
aren't enough to get to go there and
that blockers gonna stop me and there's
nothing that I can use to deactivate it
so I am going to try out this new node
so when you get a key that opens up a
new port that was previously hidden and
I know they can access the goal node
last system in this tutorial group the
uttermost tier this one is sort of a
test of everything we've seen so far so
you can look at this
care for you can see these lines of
blockers that block access to other
parts of the system so you can kind of
see the path that a packet could take
see here could bounce off of this litter
down here and bounce like this to the
end of the system she could see that
path to clear a path for this package
get all the way there but you can see
that I'm blocked in a bunch of different
places so let's do this
that's our first you see one now there's
one here I want to hit that flip flop in
order to deactivate that blocker but I
do not have access to it so I need to
get this lashed out of the way first of
all do
so the package gonna come out here
counts sounds gonna hit this one
access that but there's this buffer note
blocking it really get that buffer I
need to hit this last note away so I can
do this so all the way along here there
doesn't seem to be a way of getting this
one but there is this can be easily
placed key nearby blocker alright so we
now have this out of the way we get
through here this is going to stop it
and let's see what this does
fire that is the tutorial cluster
exploit your day will finish the first
job and give you access to additional
jobs in the game
each job as a little piece of story
content that involves talking to a
suspicious characters and finding out
about the mysterious workings of people
who impress other people including the
shady corporation Samsara digital I hope
you like this little walk through
through the game and let me know if you
got any questions in the comments
