Games

sconwar – sensecon 2020

23 November 2020 ~4 min By Leon Jacobs
Games Sensecon 2020 Api Code Json Sensecon2020 Swagger
Much like other events in 2020, our annual internal hackathon took a remote format this year, sporting over 120 hackers from across the globe. We had many challenges available during the conference which included a password cracking challenge, a discord bot challenge and a programming challenge. This post will talk about the programming challenge called sconwar. You can get the source code for it here. incubation Admittedly I was really nervous about the idea for a hacker hackathon in general, but we can only become better hackers by understanding technologies better, more specifically, understanding them by using them. I often hear people say they want to get into programming, for which there are many options, but more often that not the drive ends with “well, what do I code?”.

Hacking doom for fun, health and ammo

27 November 2019 ~14 min By Leon Jacobs
Doom Frida Games Reversing Sensecon 2019 Reverse Engineering
Remember iddqd and idkfa? Those are two strings were etched into my brain at a very young age where fond memories of playing shareware Doom live. For SenseCon ’19, Lauren and Reino joined me as we dove into some reversing of chocolate-doom with the aim of recreating similar cheats. The results? Well, a video of it is shown below. We managed to get cheats working that would: Increment your ammo instead of decrement it.Increment everyone’s health for the amount it would have gone down for. Yes, you read right, everyone.Toggle cheats just like how they behaved in classic doom. The source code for our cheats live here if you want to play along, or maybe even contribute new ones :)