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A screenshot of Black Ice's email inbox that serves as the mission system for the game. Two of the emails are from corporate suits. One is from the "Knights of Ishkar", conspiracy theorists larping as medieval knights with a sword and red banner as sender icon. The last email is from Anima, your hacker mentor, with a portrait of her eyes in a face-painted snarling animal's teeth.
A hobby horse, ie a horse head on a stick that children pretend to ride around.
A cyan neon-outlined carnival booth with a 3-part animation of a wave swelling from right to left. The sign reads "Dunk A Cyberpunk".
A Before and After comparison of a blurry spider with overwhelming bloom next to a crisp-outlined spider with visible silhouette (and teeth!).
The Black Ice character creator showing a chrome blue woman's cyberspace character model with purple hair. Her hacker name is NightmareOnLLMStreet.
A neon-outlined booth in front of a tank full of spiky pufferfish. On the booth's backdrop, a neon wave animation sweeps from right to left below the words "Dunk A Cyberpunk".
A sci-fi UI in pastel blue, red, green, and yellow. Buttons along the left show the sections of the station a player can visit: Hangar, Security, Operations, Medical, Bazaar, Theaters, Gardens, Science, and Engineering. 4 character stat sheets span the top of the screen with various icons like a flexing arm, a blinking eye, a wrench, and a beaker. At the bottom of the screen, the player has 2 actions available for the Gardens: "Forage for supplies" and "Engineer new organisms".
Screenshot of a long line of browser tabs, almost all of them google sheets...
A glowing chess board in a dark void.
A message that reads: "Hi Eric, I just finished watching a documentary on Future Games Show about MxO, it was a fascinating insight into the behind the scenes of game development and live operations! The game was a big part of my young adult years and I still have life long friends I first met through it. You were an integral part of that community experience and I was curious to see what you had been up to since the game ended, especially now knowing you were getting your physics degree at the same time! Thanks for connecting, gives me a chance to say thank you for the memories and I am glad to see you have been thriving. All the best,"
A man gestures for you to follow him on the hotel room TV, welcoming you to Widow's Bay.
A diagram showing the normal Input -> Output process of a function with a linear increase, proportional between Input and Output. Followed by a diagram showing a feedback loop where the Output feeds back into the Input, causing a much larger increase in the Output for the same amount of Input.
Black Ice screenshot from the volcano lair of a tech trillionaire. Beneath a transportation server in the shape of a retro sci-fi rocket, a gilded art deco billboard reads "It's no secret I intend to die on Mars. - Einar Sigurdsson (2026)". In the background, an ad billboard for his rocket company Skyward shows a fiery rocket blazing across the sky.
A screenshot from the game Black Ice of a corporate billboard depicting a woman's face basking in a flow of blue and purple particles. In gaudy pink text, the ad reads "the metaverse, perfected. Coming soon: quintessence by Quarkus". The Quarkus logo is in alternating cyan, magenta, yellow, and green characters. Next to the billboard, graffiti text reads "Wasn't the metaverse 'coming soon' when we were kids?" and a graffiti reply reads "They were so focused on making it fungible they forgot to make it fun"
A side by side comparison of a dull gray statue of a Greek woman as it looks today and a vividly red, green, and gold painted simulation of how the statue originally looked.
A red neon-outlined bug with a thick carapace and chunky legs. It has blue glowing eyes and a curving horn.
Image from the Wikipedia for Aphantasia: A representation of how people with differing visualization abilities might picture an apple in their mind. The first image is bright and photographic, levels 2 through 4 show increasingly simpler and more faded images, and the last—representing complete aphantasia—shows no image at all.
Concept art for the Jodorowsky / Moebius Dune film collaboration
Black Ice: a glowing neon cyberspace 3D world for hackers to rebel against megacorps
A photo of Eric Ford in a room full of plants overlaid with the caption "Live Events, The Matrix Online".
A large, menacing spider with mantis claws standing protectively in front of a cluster of 3 oily orange eggs. The dark silhouettes of spiders are visible inside the eggs.
Shimmering blue-faceted egg covered in a thin layer of goo with a spider inside.
A neon blue spiky boulder that is completely opaque with visible tris. Doesn't give egg.
A spherical ellipse with a gooey orange filling and a shimmering white translucent shell. The dark silhouette of a spider is visible inside. A wavy oil slick cascades down the outside of the shell.
Down the road in Cotton Valley, Louisiana, men are prohibited from eating ice cream while on a horse. • Watch what you say in Pattonsburg, Missouri where it is illegal to shout or use profane language in such a manner as to disturb a horse. • In Burdville, Vermont, no horse is allowed to wander around between March 1st and October 20th. • Also, in Vermont, it is illegal to allow a horse to run within enclosed burial ground. Violators can be fined $25. • Until the 1970s, a horse was required to wear a diaper in Charleston, South Carolina. • In South Dakota, a diaper is not necessary, but a horse must be wearing pants before getting in a fountain. • In Riverton, Wyoming, a woman is prohibited from riding a horse while wearing a bath suit unless she is escorted by at least two police officers or unless she is armed with a club.
The top half of the starfighter with the cockpit resembling an ornate stone balcony framed by spires.
A large neon-outlined crab with armored and spiked claws in front of a toothy maw. An asymmetrical array of eyes stare at you with inhuman menace.
A neon-outlined plant-based turret with tendrils extending along the ground and a leafy maw opening to fire projectiles.
A large horned snail, outlined in crisp neon red. A glowing barrel is on its back, fortified with a spiked shield. I wonder if it would explode.
A neon-outlined scorpion against the cyan and purple grid of Black Ice.
A manta ray, now properly neonized.
"Know thyself" (Greek: Γνῶθι σεαυτόν, gnōthi seauton)[a] is a philosophical Delphic maxim which was inscribed upon the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek precinct of Delphi. The best-known of the Delphic maxims, it has been quoted and analyzed by numerous authors throughout history, and has been applied in many ways. Although traditionally attributed to the Seven Sages of Greece, or to the god Apollo himself, the inscription likely had its origin in a popular proverb.
A neon pufferfish covered in glowing spikes. It has a cute smile and big round eyes gleaming because it's so happy to hug you.
A red neon Aimbot from Black Ice, resembling a flying jellyfish with toothy grin and dead eyes.
An older version of the Black Ice spider, hidden in a cloud of thick bloom.
Crisp neon red spiders against the blue grid of cyberspace.
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
Screenshot of Ben Nicholas' art in Black Ice with the text "cream of the crop" written underneath.
A Black Ice mission from Machiavelli's Pizza, a front for assassins. The mission text reads: "A rival firm, The Chinese Room, is taking our clients. But AIs control all their contracts. Only humans should be able to order takeout. Destroy their shipment before delivery."
Screenshot of Black Ice job board for DIYcrypt. A blue soldering iron touches a circuit board on the left sidebar while 2 people tinker with equipment in a cluttered workshop in the top right header image.
Screenshot of Black Ice job board for X_X, the anarchist hackers. Their job board is decorated with people wearing neon masks of various bright colors, each with X for eyes and a jagged line for a smile, resembling the X_X logo.
A purple and cyan mural of a Korean woman with synthetic lines across her face. A noisy pattern of grids and Korean characters cover the background. The call to action at the bottom reads "FREE DAON". Graffiti text to the side from other hackers speculates on where she is and how to rescue her.
Screenshot from Black Ice showing the job board for panic(). Multicolored beams of light spill from the edge of the screen, illuminating the faces of seven stylish young people. Several have faces covered in piercings and augmentations.
Github screenshot showing that update 225 had 666 files changed.
A bouquet of wilted roses on a laundry room counter.
The waypoint... it keeps getting 10% bigger every time it animates. I haven't made any changes to the waypoint system in 4 months... 😭
A pottery merchant with speech bubbles displaying dialog in a mysterious glyph language. The attempt at an English translation reads "me sell pot pot".
A text message exchange using maritime signaling flags. Her: No Me: I am directing my course to port. Me: I am carrying dangerous goods. Her: I am maneuvering with difficulty.
Screenshot of an account labeled for unfollowing 500+ accounts within 24 hours.
A very yellow bird on a tree branch. I don't know anything about birds.
A graffiti message written in a font made from gerrymandered congressional districts reading "Democracy was nice while it lasted." and signed "Jerry Mander".
A screenshot from the game Black Ice of a corporate billboard depicting a woman's face basking in a flow of blue and purple particles. In gaudy pink text, the ad reads "the metaverse, perfected. Coming soon: quintessence by Quarkus". The Quarkus logo is in alternating cyan, magenta, yellow, and green characters. Next to the billboard, graffiti text reads "Wasn't the metaverse 'coming soon' when we were kids?" and a graffiti reply reads "They were so focused on making it fungible they forgot to make it fun"
A view of the neon Arcade hub and distant megacorp skyscrapers.