1,000 Wishlists!

Blackdoor just hit 1,000 wishlists on Steam! Thank you - genuinely, it means a lot. This has been one person building this for way too many hours at a stretch, and every one of those wishlists is proof it wasn't just me who thought that sounded worth building.

For anyone just finding the game: you sit down with four scripts that technically work, in the same way a spoon will technically dig a tunnel, and an anonymous contact who needs files from places they really shouldn't be. You read the code. You rewrite it. You get better. That's the whole loop - and it's why I built a real scripting language instead of handing you a menu of pre-made hacks.

The demo's been up since April, if you haven't tried it yet - three story missions, a finale, six side jobs from IRC regulars, a few things hidden that the mission list won't tell you about, and enough rope to write your own port scanner from scratch if you're that kind of player.

I also want to call out the #blackdoor Discord specifically. The bug reports, the "hey, this is weird" messages, people helping each other with their scripts before I've even seen the question, quality-of-life ideas I'd never have found on my own that ended up shipping - the game's genuinely better than it was before this server existed, and that's on you, not me. What's ahead:

• Full launch - August 6th, 2026

• The complete story campaign, start to finish

• Steam Workshop - publish your scripts, or build entire custom campaigns with your own servers, missions, and story, and let the world try to hack them

• Steam leaderboards, badges, and achievements

• More servers, more side jobs, more ways to get traced

And launch isn't the finish line either - I've already got plans for what comes after it.

If you're not one of the 1,000 yet, now's a good time to fix that.

See you in #blackdoor.

• Static