It's coming along

bencoder on 2008/09/12 01:06 of SINAA- Lunar Delivery

Well, this is the state of my game so far, it's becoming more game-like, it has some rudimentary sounds. I'm feeling a lot better about it now than yesterday, mostly thanks to people on the IRC channel.

Things to add:

• Fuel - bar is displayed but is always full
• "roof terrain" - occassional roof terrain to make life a bit harder every now and then
• Upgrade, refuel and repair options when landed
• Menu
• Online score submission*

*if time allows

Regarding online score submission, is there any way to make that secure with an open source game? I've done it before with some kind of encryption, but as you can see the encryption algorithm, I can't really see any way to make it work.

any ideas?

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Comments

lucio on 2008/09/12 05:40:

let people cheat if they take the trouble :)

HanClinto on 2008/09/12 14:46:

You could submit a recording of the keypresses of the game (along with the ticks at which they happened), and the server processes it and calculates the score. It's not perfectly secure, but at least it would make it a lot tougher to fake.

--clint

bencoder on 2008/09/12 14:56:

HanClinto - that's the only way I can see it being pretty secure... unfortunately I think that would be rather a lot of data and complicated, so I think i'll just go with leaving it insecure and people can cheat if they must, that's if I do an online score board at all.