How do I minify array files?

I use a number of arrays in my game, each of which uses the array editor and is saved to a .json file. These arrays contain a lot of data and settings that I'd prefer the users not change. On export, even with advanced minification on, the array .json files are unchanged and very readable/editable. Is there a way to make these less editable/readable by the users?

You can encrypt the files after export. And decrypt them in the game before loading the data into arrays.

There are a couple of addons you can try:

construct.net/en/make-games/addons

turn it into a blob or base64, something u can undo and read easely in construct but doesnt look like plain text to players, its garbled, or even just bitshift it

base64 or something like URLencode() will make the text unreadable, but many people will still be able to easily decode it, there are plenty of online tools for that. Encryption is a much better protection, but of course still will not help against an experienced hacker.

idk man if people really care about your game that much then just let them do it, don't try so hard to stop them

Thanks for the suggestions. I looked into this and couldn't get the Forge add-on to work (looks like it predates the JS modules). The base64 option sounds promising, it may be powerful enough for what I need, but I haven't found an example of how to do that in C3 and I'm guessing JS is required (not my skillset). Any chance you can point me to an example of using base64 (converting a string to/from base64) in C3?

Thanks

This simple script will base64 encode a text in string variable:

runtime.globalVars.var=btoa(runtime.globalVars.var);

This is really helpful. I'm 100% new to js so I'm getting tripped up by little stuff. I posted a question on this at https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-3/how-do-i-8/simple-javascript-string-172108, would love if you had a chance to look at it and let me know your thoughts.

Thanks