One of our next projects is supposed to be a MS Windows based game (written in C#, with a winform GUI and an integrated DirectX display-control) for a customer who wants to give away prizes to the best players. This project is meant to run for a couple of years, with championships, ladders, tournaments, player vs. player-action and so on...
Voting contests seem to gain a lot of attention from people who want to game a system for fun. I know I spend a good amount of time fooling around with their forms and URLs, deleting cookies and writing the occasional crappy script. Is there a way to create a foolproof voting system that only allows one vote a day? Is Captcha the only e...
In many online chess lobbies, I've seen instances of 'engining', where a cheater would open a chess program at the same time as the main game window. He would then set it up so that the opponent's moves are relayed to the computer, then which he would copy the computer's moves, until he (almost always) wins. As a game developer and mode...
After asking this question (C++: Can I get out of the bounds of my app’s memory with a pointer?), I decided to accept it isn't possible to modify other app's memory with pointers (with a modern OS). But if this isn't possible, how do programs like ArtMoney and CheatEngine work? Thanks ...
Drivers on Windows should be signed and submitted to Microsoft for code signing and this is a requirement for 64 bit systems. The problem is that, when you have to update the driver, you have to submit it again, once for every release. Is possible to build some kind of proxy or shim driver so that I have to sign and submit it only once,...