Teaching network intrusion in the funnest way possible

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on that I’m super excited about: Project RedTeam: Contract Offensive There’s a free Demo that provides a tutorial and lets you play a few contracts (no time limit, play as much as you want). Some players are already pulling some serious hours in the demo! At its core, this is a game about using MITRE ATT&CK adversarial techniques against procedurally generated networks. It’s delivered in a gameplay loop that plays a lot like Balatro and other card based Roguelike games. In Project RedTeam, you need to earn money to pay off debts after every contract within a run. Earn money by completing objectives, side bounties, or executing exfiltration/ransom against targets- the choice on how to be profitable is always yours. It’s a challenging but fun and fast paced take on network-intrusion cybersecurity concepts. It’s entertaining in a deliberately gamified way. A goal of this project was to create a hacking game that is realistic enough to keep it meaningful as a tool to teach intrusion concepts and stages to anyone- but not be overcomplicated and slow-paced like most hacking games. I’ve put a lot of thought into the design and dynamics of how to capture the core-loop of network intrusion and turn it into a game that’s approachable. The design direction of this project is an outcome of having over a decade of training and experience in cybersecurity. Feel free to AMA! I’m happy to answer any questions about the game and/or development process 🙂 Give the game a Wishlist on Steam or share this post if it’s something you support and want to see further development on. Project background: This was implemented over the past 3 months using a modern development workflow (yes, modern AI tools make this possible- I’m not hiding that fact!). That being said, this is by far the most complex software project I’ve built as a solo developer and it was not an easy or simple development task. There’s a Steam Community with a Dev Blog for this game that provides more history/progress updates on the project. Mods: This will be my only and last post here, since it is promotional. I just wanted to share this since there’s been very positive interest from similar subreddits. submitted by /u/ProjectRedTeam [link] [comments]Technical Information Security Content & DiscussionRead More