OPERANDi

Your latent talents went unnurtured in your dull, rural childhood, and you became obsessed with achieving a career in engineering that would see you in demand across the local system. Last year, you gathered your savings and ghosted your dead-end, planet-side life, bought a tiny ship to live off-world, and started night classes in computer science.

To pay the bills, you reluctantly provide maintenance services at inhospitable locations, but your hustle hasn't advanced as you expected.

You desperately want to apply your growing tech skills to something more ambitious and make some proper money, otherwise your dream of upward mobility will crash back down to the surface.

Be careful what you wish for ...

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OPERANDi is a scifi mystery and simulation game about a young nomad struggling to break into a tech career in the 23rd Century, but who gets tempted by a corporate conspiracy. It's split between a text-heavy life management mode and  2D roguelite adventures, both involving real programming, logic puzzles, and automation.

**[ THIS IS A BETA TEST VERSION ]**

This demo version includes the Prologue and Chapter 1. To support the completion of chapters that deepen the mystery across the star system, sign up to the mailing list from the landing page , share feedback, and stay informed.

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Word nerds have crosswords and Wordle. What do science nerds have? This!

Come learn with me! I have put years of hobby effort into building the entire game engine from scratch, and I'm motivated to make it deliver on my promise to be richly entertaining, replayable, and highly educational for beginner and intermediate tech and science nerds. Learn and practice SQL, NLP, DSP, trigonometry, calculus, information theory, web APIs and more! This hacker simulation is in "hardcore" mode :)