connection established

ooops! you've got Malware.exe!

enjoy a short late-night chat with an unpleasantly-cute internet boy<3

you may not be the world's biggest techie, but even you never dreamt that you might one day somehow end up with a ransomware infection and some creepy stranger harassing you via your own computer.

buying a discount laptop from some shady guy in the car park outside your building is starting to seem like it wasn't such a good idea after all...

this microgame was made for  o2a2 jam 2025.

in accordance with jam rules this game is a micro-vn containing no more than 1000 words, 1 sprite, 1 background, 1 sfx and 1 bgm. It also contains 1 slightly-skeezy QT3.14 hacker guy, 3 endings and was made in 1 week by 1 developer- though these things aren't necessarily jam requirements

play time: ~5-10 minutes

~$ CREDITS

>music: dova syndrome

>art/writing/programming: heartpunch!

>kinetic text tags: wattson

>renpy shader pack: make visual novels

>text boops script- dmochas

~$ WARNING

this game contains frequent use of strong language and depicts lightly threatening situations. this game contains tobacco use and a  depiction of an alcohol container. this game does not contain sex or violence.

this game contains light use of a chromatic aberration/"swaying" distortion effect.

note that the terminal sequences in this game are simulated for storytelling purposes only. this game will not trigger the installation of any additional/unwanted programs on your computer. the "malware.exe" installation in the story is not a real program installation.

streaming/recording OK! thank you very much for enjoying the game.<3