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Reverse Engineering a North Korean Sim City Game

• ewired 6y ago
  Chevron SimRefinery joins forces with North Korea Sim to create the ultimate oil & gas megacorp oppressive dictatorship evil simulator.
• yorwba 6y ago
  I get an "Error establishing a database connection". Here's an archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20201003094412/https://digitalnk.com/blog/2019/04/21/reverse-engineering-a-north-korean-sim-city-game/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201003094412/https://digitalnk...
• sasaf5 6y ago
  This article had been submitted 5 times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=digitalnk.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=digitalnk.com
  • usr1106 6y ago
    ... without gaining any popularity on HN. I read it; it gives a nice case study of reverse engineering.
• Kaze404 6y ago
  Great article. I'll add the blog to my favorites too, I've always been curious about technology in the DPRK.
• tW4r 6y ago
  If I understand this correctly, even the DPRK related C# code is in English, they even use localization keys in English, interesting if the game itself was made in DPRK or China
  • breakingcups 6y ago
    I'd say you misunderstood, since the game was developed in The Netherlands. > The game considered in this post is based on a Chinese version of a popular Android game developed in the Netherlands Here's their website: https://www.sparklingsociety.net/sparkling-games/city-building-games/city-island-2/ https://www.sparklingsociety.net/sparkling-games/city-buildi... It's not that unusual for Dutch developers to use English variable names in code.
    • tW4r 6y ago
      Yes, but I was talking about the DPRK specific code mentioned regarding the DPRK specific offline payments
• hakfoo 6y ago
  So basically even in the DPRK you can't escape the microtransaction economy.