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Message: 5517

Author: john_elliott_uk

Date: 19/02/2006

Subject: Re: Protecting game layouts/secrets from cheaters

 

--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Alexandra"
wrote:

> It's certainly an interesting field of thought with many ambiguities
> but I do like the idea of being able to lock a creation with some
> minor protection (which could perhaps easily be bypassed if you knew
> what you were doing), mainly because it gives an increased sense of
> power to the author and makes secrets feel 'different' and, well, more
> secret... but it does stifle creativity - it's fun to look inside
> other people's games to see how they work if need be, and I probably
> learned a lot from opening up other people's games.

It's actually very easy to alter a JSW64 game so that it will not
load in JSWED, without affecting gameplay.

 

 

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