If you are writing a game you should think about cheaters and how to prevent them from cheating. I don't think only the mmo multiplayer games but also singleplayer or "home-brewed" p2p mp games too. When the game is based on completely a server-client architechture, the job is almost done I think, but there is also wall hacks or someth...
When you have a multiplayer game where the server is receiving movement (location) information from the client, you want to verify this information as an anti-cheating measure. This can be done like this: maxPlayerSpeed = 300; // = 300 pixels every 1 second if ((1000 / (getTime() - oldTimestamp) * (newPosX - oldPosX)) > maxPlayerSpeed)...
Lets say that in a browser based game, completing some action (for simplicity lets say someone clicks on a link that increases their score by 100) clicking on this link which would have a url for example increase_score.pl?amount=100 what kind of prevention is there from someone simply sending requests to the web server to execute this co...
I'm having some problems with users cheating my online game by using macros to automatically click certain spots on the screen in a certain order to automate various tasks without having to actually be playing the game. Are there any methods that can be used to block this kind of activity without having to plaster CAPTCHAs all over the ...
Does HTML 5 Gaming use Canvas and Javascript? How to prevent cheating in this case? For instance, what if a user uses GreaseMonkey or some tool to alter the script so that it just reports a perfect game score to the server every time? ...
One way users can cheat with games (desktop or web) is by having "robots" monitor the screen and move the mouse for them. Is there a way (of course with transparency and user permission) to monitor if an application is controlling the mouse? I am primarily interested in a windows app, but if there is a way for other OS's that would be us...
It recently emerged on a large poker site that some players were possibly able to see all opponents cards as they played through exploiting a security vulnerability that was discovered. A naïve cheater would win at an incredibly fast rate, and these cheats are caught very quickly usually, and if not caught quickly they are easy to detec...
I am looking for networking designs and tricks specific to games. I know about a few problems and I have some partial solutions to some of them but there can be problems I can't see yet. I think there is no definite answer to this but I will accept an answer I really like. I can think of 4 categories of problems. Bad network The messag...