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After 8 years, Hack ‘n’ Slash players have finally solved a secret room puzzleThe developer offered a tiny hint
The developer offered a tiny hint
Not long after Hack ‘n’ Slash released in 2014, players found a particular file among its scripts called SecretRoom.lua. This particular file was encrypted and could only be unlocked with a decryption key, which no one could figure out.
Hack N Slash 1.0 - Source code release!Watch on YouTube
Hack N Slash 1.0 - Source code release!
I’ve been avoiding spoiling the solution or the contents of the secret room, but Guillaume Fortin-Debigaré, a software analyst who has also worked in the games industry,has broken down the solution if you want to do it yourself. Once you get into the secret room, you’ll find"a special message from Brandon Dillon to the player before triggering the game’s win state. Using graphics not normally shown elsewhere in the game, Brandon explains the game’s backstory, the missing Act 1, and some additional insights into the people that made the game possible."
It’s always fun when a community is still exploring and uncovering new things in a game years after release, particularly when, as in Hack ‘n’ Slash’s case, the game is relatively obscure. It’s no surprise that this somewhat daunting puzzle game about programming is appealing to so many professional programmers, though.
