Official development blog

Tag Archives: Garrisons

Garrisons 2.0

Garrisons were originally added to Cogmind in the months after the first Alpha release in 2015 (see an overview here) as an optional location for players to visit, adding a unique extra dimension to the world to answer the question “what if I infiltrate these things where many enemy squads come from?” (More recently here […]

Posted in Design | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Robot Hacking: Upgrades

Last year Cogmind got an expansive new robot hacking system with a lot of hacking options to use as either a primary or supplementary strategy. Overall it’s not as powerful as the simple placeholder version used in Cogmind’s early years, but it’s a lot more versatile. That said, as it was designed bothacking does become […]

Posted in Mechanics | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

65 Robot Hacks

We’ve already covered the design behind the all-new robot hacking system, and now for the main course: the hacks themselves! The entire initial set is complete and ready for Beta 7, all 65 of them :D I’ll be talking about most hacks in this post, and you’ll notice their names follow a certain pattern throughout–all […]

Posted in Mechanics | Also tagged , , , , | 2 Responses

Robot Hacking, Take 2

Over three years ago, before Cogmind’s first alpha version was released, I wrote about robot hacking. Well we can keep that post around for posterity and historical research purposes, but as of the next version robot hacking is undergoing radical changes and a major expansion. This post will explain the fundamentals of the new system […]

Posted in Mechanics | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Garrisons

Last time we looked at what happens when you use the Unlock hack on a Garrison Access machine. Now about that rabbit hole… SPOILER WARNING: This post is going to be absolutely full of spoilers. There are so many details to the implementation of this feature that tip-toeing around them would be annoying and not […]

Posted in Mechanics | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment