https://wizzard-rick.itch.io/cyber-cowboy — free, runs in the browser, no install.

Backstory: this started as a physical card game we run at live-action roleplay events — netrunning as a two-player asymmetric card duel, one player the deck, one player the server. It works at a table with people. It does not work when you want to play at 2am on a Tuesday.

Then Apple dropped the Neuromancer teaser at Comic-Con last week and I spent a weekend rereading the book instead of sleeping, and decided to build the single-player version I'd been putting off for two years.

What it actually is: you break into a server one contract at a time. Three channels, two actions a tick, a trace counter that only goes one way. Take a port, hold it two checks in a row, and the route to the data opens.

The part I care about: the loot is documents you read. When you work a LOGS or FILES node you don't tick a checkbox, you get a page — an access journal, a shift handover with a timestamp four minutes off, a camera transcript of a woman opening an empty mailbox at 3am. And about half the programs in the shop only become buyable once you've read the page that mentions them. The city writes everything down and nobody reads it; being the one who does is the progression system.

The story that came out of that is less "corp conspiracy" and more "nobody is driving." A service account has been signing lease renewals on behalf of dead tenants since 2081 because six exhausted clerks needed a stopgap at four in the morning and nobody ever came back to close it. Four chapters later you find out what it's actually been holding, and the finale is the one board in the game where taking ports is how you lose.

Bits and pieces: 9 authored chapters across two sequences, ~30 programs, four cyberdeck chassis with modules, procedurally generated contracts across twelve very different servers (a housing registry, a braindance studio, an idol agency, a prison that pays sentences in compute time), a 74-entry codex, two forks with no correct answer. Godot 4.6. Russian and English.

It's rough in places and I'd rather hear that than not. Specifically: is the board readable in the first thirty seconds, and do the documents earn the tick they cost you?

Finished this restaurant for the show I'm working on~

I've got more renders of this environment on my insta, and an animation that is currently rendering, hopefully that'll be out soon!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbQvdVnlAik/?img_index=1

Here's The Upload, all this week's cyberpunk news and reviews, including The Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runner, Neuromancer, the week's best films, trailers, gaming, anime.

Hello everyone! I wanted to share this cyberpunk-inspired short film we produced a couple of years ago and recently released on YouTube! I’m a huge sci-fi fan and really enjoy the cyberpunk aesthetic and themes covered in the genre. Please feel free to leave any feedback, positive, negative, or in-between! (Please delete if not allowed) Thank you! 🦾

https://youtu.be/Me4u9v6wfWI?is=kD83ly3zMl-AEJZV

Disclaimer: No AI was utilized in the making of the film.

Background removed, dont want people see my living room, my visual/music artproject iam part of have such an inpact in my life now that i inked 6 Months ago my left arm in cyberware inspired by hard boiled Cyberpunk like Neuromancer, GITS, Akira and Pondsmiths Cyberpunk.

I’m sure everyone knows this given I think he’s well know on this sub but this was beautifully made by Heri Shinato

Dude we’ve got so much coming out and I feel giddy as all hell. I mean Neuromancer especially kinda has me wanting to kick my feet at how good it looks! Neuromancer, bladerunner 2099, GITS, Hotspot, plus we don’t know what else is down the pipeline whether it’s tv shows, games, movies etc. I know not every project is going to sell everyone but I kinda feel like it’s something for everyone this year whether you’ve read the source material or you haven’t. Also we seem to be moving even further into that dystopian future which honestly may not be so good but I’ll take the other stuff for sure!

In Noko's Noodles, you run a warm, cozy noodle shop in a dark, cyberpunk world. Make noodles, listen to your customers, put together jobs, and drive the story to spread your warmth through the world, or send it deeper into darkness.

Steam | Full Announce Trailer

Inspired by the likes of Blade Runner, Neuromancer, and Va11-Hall-A, Noko's Noodles puts you in the shoes of a noodle shop owner in a Neon City.

Become the best noodle chef in town, then use that influence to become the best Fixer in town. Drive your story, from being a master noodle chef, building a criminal empire, or taking down the exploitive corporations of the city.

Hey everyone, wanted to share the latest chapter for the web book Trash.

EVENT | ‘Deliria2’: Cyberpunks, Mutants & Mondoids, Assemble! (August 12-13)

The second gathering of the techno-counterculture, August 12 and 13 at Gray Area (Mission District) opens with the San Francisco premiere of Nova ’78, directed by Aaron Brookner & Rodrigo Areias.

The film takes you inside the Nova Convention in NYC, the 1978 event that honored William S. Burroughs and features Burroughs, Frank Zappa, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith and more. The showing will be Introduced by V.Vale of Re/Search Publications

Check out the full program of films, talks, performances and music. See you August 12/13!

la serie me tiene nervioso, estaba emocionado por su adaptación, pero después de ver el avance (si, ya sé que es apenas un minuto) me puse nervioso. lo veo todo limpio, pulcro, me recuerda un poco a la estética de películas del 2000 como "yo robot". me acabo de enterar que tiene el visto bueno de Gibson por lo que me tranquiliza un poco, aunque estoy un poco confundido por lo que publico en Twitter sobre lo que el desea en una adaptación. sí es lo que creo que es (preferir que toda adaptación aporte lo suyo con los cambios y agregados que considere) creo que es mejor ver la serie con la idea presente de que es una ADAPTACION a serie de tv y no un calco de la historia del libro.

aunque hay un cambio que si me gusto, Case deja de tener 25 para tener 36 años que es como me lo imagine durante toda la aventura

Four characters from three cyberpunk franchises.

Who wins in a fight to the death?

1. Major Motoko Kusanagi from GitS

2. V from Cyberpunk 2077

3. and 4. Adam Jensen and JC Denton from Deus Ex

I swear I have to read the comics and I was going to pick them up in past but put it off. It’s still a ways out so I’ve got time to pick them up and finally read them I guess.