Hi everyone,

It has been a long but exciting year for us. A year that has seen the formation of Deadworld Studios, the eventual alpha release of Root Access and now we’re starting to get into our stride. We really want to say thank you to our community for their support and what better way to say that than with a picture of our very own bot ‘Halcyon’!

Merry Christmas everyone! We look forward to making this new year even better!

We’ve just released build 230 to the community and invited a couple of new alpha testers! As per usual we’ve introduced some new features, changed some underlying code and fixed bugs!

The full change log for release 230 is below,

New Features (Root Access):

– New program: Monitor (Responsible for generating logs on servers, including your own!)
– Implemented ‘Real Name’ in the profile
– Right-click delete menu for the inbox messages
– Keyboard support for the dialer
– Improved the default skin

Changes (Root Access):

– Netcode has been rewritten from XML to Java Object Serialisation

Bugs Fixed (Root Access):

#21 – Inbox ‘delete’ button does not work
#22 – Inbox messages do not retain ‘read’ status
#31 – Sound: Cracking sound effect is not timed correctly to cracking
#35 – Program info displays only once
#37 – Switching to ‘Log’ viewer mode is not intuitive
#44 – Null Pointer Exception upon disconnect before fully logged in (Fixed in build 213)
#57 – Missions Seem to Auto-Complete (Fixed in build 213)
#61 – Out of memory on Server
#65 – File Deletion of Another Player’s Files Does Not Update His Local File Store
#66 – Music volume changing on new track
#67 – Players can connect to logged off clients
#68 – Inbox messages are displayed in the wrong ordert

Hey everyone,

We’ve just released build 213 to all the current players and we have just invited some more applicants to become alpha testers! In this release we fixed 20 reported bugs, changed how some underlying code worked in regards to our data model and added five new steal missions, along with a few other minor changes.

As before please give the game a try and let us know about any bugs you find using the in-game report system or the website report system. Also, why not discuss Root Access in our forums?

The full changelog is below,

New Features (Root Access):

– Server persistence
– Five new steal missions
– Tutorial introduction to the ‘Downloader’ program
– Players now have a ‘handle’ and an in-game ‘real name’
– Placeholder for in-game ‘real name’ added to profile

Bugs Fixed (Root Access):

#08 – No server status displayed when server is offline
#11 – Profile displays incorrect ‘number of program’
#17 – In-game browser refresh bug
#19 – Login box appears when first viewing local files
#20 – ‘Options’ cancel button does not work
#23 – Inbox ‘open’ button does not work
#24 – Unable to ‘download’ file in steal mission
#26 – On login user does not get their programs back
#27 – On login user does not have their downloads
#30 – Music volume slider inaccurate
#32 – Deleting a local file clears the UI of remaining files
#34 – Music restarts playing on login even if it is turned off
#36 – Null pointer exception & deleting local file makes login prompt appear
#46 – Login box states ‘Username’ when infact it should be ‘Email’
#48 – Unable to attach files after steal mission
#51 – UI retains connection after logoff / login
#52 – Downloaded files overwrite each other
#53 – Accepting missions selects the wrong mission
#58 – Profile statistics not loaded on reconnect

Bugs Fixed (Updater):

#43 – First load of game plays no music or sound