A developer created a game that became an Internet sensation in just a few hours. Overwhelmed by the success of his work, he decided to sell it.
This is similar to what happened with Flappy Bird. Vietnamese game developer Dong Nguyen, decided to sell the famous app as soon as it became successful.
Yet in this case the game is not about birds and tubes, rather viruses and IT security. The game is called ‘Hacker Experience‘ and its creator, a computer science student at the University of Winnipeg, has been saturated by the response to this simulator.
“I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral “. With these words, Renato Massaro, who is just 21 years old, has terminated his relation with ‘Hacker Experience’, the game he was working on for two-and-a-half years.
The game is a hacking simulator, where players can play the role of a cyber-criminal trying to become rich and powerful working for an evil corporation. In this game, you can hack virtual servers, develop new software, mine bitcoins, work on missions, hack banks, etc.
But it’s only a game; everything that happens is just a simulation, so players are not really handling viruses that could damage their computers or destroying the hardware on other people’s systems. It’s all a work of fiction, a simulator that you can play online and which became an incredible success within just a few hours.
“It went viral in a matter of minutes,” says Massaro, who goes on to explain how he launched ‘Hacker Experi ..
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