u/damiankw

Hey everyone! You might remember me from six months ago, I built the Bobiverse: The Journey interactive space map (https://bobiverse.anek.online/) which had some good feedback.

I've recently been working on a Bobiverse WebGAME that I think I'm ready for people to jump onto. It's called Bobiverse: Replicant Too, a bit of a BOB-like pun, you play as a second replicant (yourself) who wakes up in Delta Eridani in 2152 with Bill and Garfield, just after they create SCUT, because that TODO list keeps getting bigger, and BOBs need help.

The idea is that you can live along side BOBs as the story arcs of the books play out between 2152 and 2349, you help expand the BobNet by building a MeNet, you scan systems, mine their resources and send them to different BOBs for rewards through the journey. You choose yourself a type of probe you want to be, which boosts different aspects of the game, and along the way BOBs will ask for help with resources. There are upgrades to technology to help you mine faster, fly faster, explore faster; and of course, you can replicate yourself to any star system that has SCUT, or any that you can fly to. Yes, flying somewhere will take considerable amounts of time, but it's fun! One second is one day in-game, but you can speed it up as you progress - don't speed too fast though, otherwise you'll miss out on points bonuses from the BOBs and also the story arcs.

The game COULD take you up to 30 hours to play if you run at 1x, but you COULD fly through it in under two hours if you don't really do anything.

You can play it here: https://replicate.anek.online - It's free and playable (mostly) on both desktop and mobile, note the mobile version is EXTREMELY new and doesn't quite look right, so use at your own risk :)

A bigger break down of what the game entails:

- You fly your own HEAVEN vessel around real star systems
- You use SUDDAR to scan the systems, first inner system, then outer system, then oort
- You clone yourself into new replicants, then fly them to neighbouring star systems or SCUT transmit to others (this becomes easier as the game progresses)
- You research technology to unlock percentage bonuses to have the game flow faster
- You refit your ship to bigger and better versions of the HEAVEN vessel, of course until the BOBs develop them you can't use them
- You help BOBs as they ask for parts and alert you to what's going on in the Galaxy
- You can see different story arcs happen in real time

The story arcs happen in their own systems, but I don't REALLY want to give too much away. Lets just say that if you're quick enough and make it to other systems, you can see things like Bob-1 and the Deltans; The Others early journeys; and destructions, along with a lot of other stories. The story you will hear about from BOBs include what's happening on Earth, on Pav, with Starfleet, with Medeiros, with the Others, with the Quinlans, and even Vehement.

I have built over 100 real stars within 55 light years, about 60 BOBs and there are even a few easter eggs from other pop culture in there, if you know where to look. The initial TODO list helps you figure the game out, and then you're on your own.

The game is beta, I guess! There weill be bugs, and there's a Report a bug button in thet op menu.

There is no sound! I don't know where to even get sound from, and I only really worked out while developing this that I usually don't even play games with sound turned on, so that was weird.

This is a non-commercial fan project. Huge thanks to Dennis E. Taylor for the books. The game is fan fiction and it's not official in any way. I'm new to game dev, so be gentle, but be honest!

I'd love to hear what you think: what's fun, what's confusing, what's missing, and which Bobiverse moments you'd most like to see in it. I'm not sure I have captured the time and the game progression timeline well, but let me know.

Thanks for giving it a go!

(EDIT1) I forgot screenshots:

- https://dropd.link/e/88trjehE.png - System Map
- https://dropd.link/e/ssKVYemm.png - Galaxy Map
- https://dropd.link/e/edYklIXf.png - Building Menu
- https://dropd.link/e/LxyVBlQp.png - Technology Menu
- https://dropd.link/e/ZtobaQWa.png - The Leaderboard
- https://dropd.link/e/wbBpAZCh.png - The initial TODO
- https://dropd.link/e/5Ke8Nh0Y.png - Building progress (right sidebar)
- https://dropd.link/e/JFopaJjC.png - How to help a BOB

(EDIT2) You can save your game online and play it later from another device, you will need to create an account for it though - at this point no email confirmation required. The game auto saves to your local computer and uploads the savegame to the server periodically for the Leaderboard. You CAN refresh your screen / go away and play later, it will prompt you to jump back into your game on the same browser if you come back :)

Hey everyone, I feel like I'm a little cheated here and I'd love to hear back from the community on a few things, experiences, thoughts, etc. and please prove me absolutely wrong!

We were approached by a third party selling Crowdstrike EDR+MDR, we were iffy at the start until we realised that it checks off a lot of our internal audit issues (where our existing didn't quite). We've done our homework, I've been personally watching Crowdstrike for a few years and been to a few of their sumits, etc.

Now we have passed our first onboarding meeting where the company basically said, 'youll have access to reporting, but nothing else'. This was a hard line to me, I thought we were purchasing a product that we could manage ourselves, but they and Crowdstrike were in our back pocket if anything happened that we couldn't handle. I did not realise and was not told that it was basically a SaaS model where we didn't have access to even whitelist our own applications and the likes.

We are in-house IT, we have a team, we do everything from 'my Excel isnt loading' to 'theres a fire in the server room'. We are hands on, we don't like leaving this to MSP's or service providers. We do seek assistance where we need, and we have a great relationship with the service providers we have chosen to align with, but even with them we have come to agreements to access things like our FWaaS and ERPaaS in the back end for all of the nitty gritty we do.

Am I wrong that 'Crowdstrike for Service Providers' is basically an SaaS product and we don't/can't get access to manage it ourselves? Should this company be able to get licensing and still do the management on the side after it's configured, with us being fully capable of changes?

For the sake of the argument, lets ignore the 'what if you break something and claim it was them' rant, because yes, this could be a thing; no, it has never happened with our other vendors.

At the moment with this vendor it could take anywhere between 10mins to 4hrs for them to get back to email and calls, to the point where I've often called their Director's for assistance and issues where no support has been available, so I don't quite .. trust .. that they will be able to do 0day fixes for us as we need it (note: I have complete faith in Crowdstrike)