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How most Flash games insert highscores and why it's not smart
- benologist 14y agoHow you post the data is a small portion of protecting a score - kids also use Cheat Engine to modify values in-memory which will be submitted properly. There's a community where they share instructions on how to modify games as well as a handful of sites where modified versions get published. MochiDigits are really worth checking out for protecting in-memory values: http://code.google.com/p/cunitescore/source/browse/trunk/as3/unitescore/mochi/MochiDigits.as?r=92 http://code.google.com/p/cunitescore/source/browse/trunk/as3... For the submission process ... Flash is a very weak and open product, aside from browser debuggers and whatnot you can just decompile most games and see first hand what the source is. I lean towards obfuscating it just enough to not be "change this parameter in the URL", if you need more security than that you really need a user system + consequences for cheating ala Kongregate.
- mooism2 14y agoThe "Hoff" says "NO"! Was there supposed to be something other than an image macro at the end of the link?
- bashzor 14y agoActually, yes. I forgot to test the link afterwards... Apparently, anyone having "hacker" in the username gets blocked, if you change that to "HN" it works. I made a different link without hacker in it, then got distracted, and when posting it apparently copied it from the wrong browing tab. Let's resubmit, this kinda sucks...