HardCode

Spoilers ahead!

Storyline: Free the Programmers
Hello, and welcome to this brief introduction to the HardCode game!

HardCode’s overarching storyline delves into a dystopian future where the monopoly of software creation, leading to vast wealth gaps, brings upon a necessary and covert movement to overthrow the people in power: the Aristocrats. There are four Aristocrats, one per city (Math, Game, Data, Main), each with unimaginable wealth gained through the creation and distribution of software. With this wealth, they slowly purchased, corrupted, and gained control of the government, thus achieving their goal: to monopolize software creation. You are unknowingly hired to illegally undercut and work against these Aristocrats as part of a much bigger movement devised by your boss. This movement will set in place the dominos to dismantle the Aristocratic oligarchy and Free the Programmers! And you, the player, happens to be the one to make them all tip.
Not so briefly