HELIOS Server Hacking Portal

You are a playing the role of a hacker who is part of Inflorescence, a hacktivist group who attacks targets who are morally corrupted. In the game, you will be presented with the newest of breaching technologies, and hopefully this grants you access straight into Helios’s servers. Get in, collect evidence, exfiltrate. Be careful, though, traps might have been laid by an AI system that supposedly runs Helios Labs. The AI is also very sensitive to failed password attempts. Luckily, word has it that because of some disk corruption in their servers, there are vulnerabilities which you can use to bypass certain restrictions. Corruption must end. Morals shall prevail. Good luck.

About Helios:

Helios is a company that specialises in creation of weapons for mass destruction, and is reportedly run by a corrupt board of directors who favour money over morals. It is also rumoured that Helios is in part run by an AI.

Some final words before you being... The content presented in this short puzzle game is purely fictional. This game is meant solely as a source of entertainment and by no means promotes unethical hacking.

This game was created as a submission for MelonJam 2023 by DevNerdGR. Enjoy!

Tips and hints:

The game simulates a terminal, and thus is almost entirely text based. To clear the level, type "view introitus.HELIOS" into the command line to view a puzzle (Hint for the puzzle: stanza 1 refers to the folder in which to look, while stanza 2 refers to the password to unlock the folder) To solve stanza 1, look and observe the characters in the square brackets, while stanza 2 is a reference to a book/movie.

After clearing the level, the evidence will be extracted automatically, but in order to do so successfully, you must first disable the AI by using the command found in !&@#.HELIOS before unlocking the folder.

Feel free to leave feedback and comments in the comments section! Thank you!

~DevNerdGR