Untrusted —or— the Continuing Adventures of Dr. Eval is an exciting Meta-Javascript Adventure Game wherein you guide the dashing, steadfast Dr. Eval through a mysterious MACHINE CONTINUUM, wherein, using only his trusty computer and the TURING-COMPLETE power of Javascript, he must literally ALTER HIS REALITY in order to find his freedom! You must literally edit and re-execute the very Javascript running the game in your browser to save Dr. Eval from this dark and confusing reality!

Overview

The game presents you with a roguelike-like playing environment (powered by the rot.js library) and a console window with the JavaScript code generating each level. As loaded, each level is unbeatable, and most of the JavaScript is blocked from editing. The challenge is to open a path to the next level using only the limited tools left open to you.

Development

Run

make

to merge the JavaScript files into scripts/build/untrusted.js (and enables debug features).

make release

merges and minifies the JavaScript files into scripts/build/untrusted.min.js (and disables debug features).

To run the game locally, you need to set up a local server to serve index.html (this step is necessary due to Access-Control-Allow-Origin restrictions).

First install http-server if you haven't already:

sudo npm install http-server

Then run:

make runlocal

Acknowledgements

Untrusted is a game by Alex Nisnevich and Greg Shuflin.

We'd like to thank:

• Dmitry Mazin for design assistance and for the implementation of multiline editing
• Jordan Arnesen for playtesting and design of lvl17
• Natasha Hull-Richter for extensive playtesting and assistance in level design
• Alex Bolotov, Colin Curtin, Conrad Irwin, Devin C-R, Eugene Evans, Gilbert Hsyu, Jacob Nisnevich, James Silvey, Jason Jiang, Jimmy Hack, Philip Shao, Ryan Fitzgerald, Stephen Liu, Yayoi Ukai, and Yuval Gnessin for playtesting and feedback
• Ondřej Žára for his excellent rot.js library
• Brian Harvey for allowing us to use his likeness in lvl19

Soundtrack

The music that appears in the game, in order, is:

• "The Green" - Jonathan Holliday (used with permission)
• "Dmitry's Thing #2" - Dmitry Mazin (written for Untrusted)
• "Obscure Terrain" - Revolution Void (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• "coming soon" - Fex (public domain)
• "cloudy sin" - iNTRICATE (used with permission)
• "Dynamic Punctuality" - Dmitry Mazin (written for Untrusted)
• "Y" - Tortue Super Sonic (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• "Night Owl" - Broke for Free (CC-BY)
• "The Waves Call Her Name" - Sycamore Drive (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• "Come and Find Me - [B mix" - Eric Skiff (CC-BY)
• "Conspiracy" - Mike and Alan (used with permission)
• "Messeah" - RoccoW (CC-BY)
• "Searching" - Eric Skiff (CC-BY)
• "Da Funk Do You Know 'bout Chip?" - That Andy Guy (used with permission)
• "Soixante-8" - Obsibilo (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• "Tart (Pts 1 and 2)" - BLEO feat KeFF (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• "Beach Wedding Dance" - Rolemusic (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• "Boss Loop 1" - Essa (free to use)
• "Adversity" - Seropard (free to use)
• "Comme Des Orages" - Obsibilo (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• "Brazilicon Alley" - Vernon Lenoir (CC-BY-NC-SA)

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.