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  • Hey bois, i'm trying to make an riddle game, and the first challenge is for the player to realize that, he will have to go inside the game folder, and open a file called "Layout.txt", which contain the following letters:

    OnStartup:LoadLayout("Blank");

    And then, every time he starts the game, he reads the part ("Blank") soon, Blank, will go to a variable in which it will be compared, and if he agrees with the comparison, he will move to another layout, soon at first. My problem is, how can i do to read a file outside of construct 2 (I don't want any suggestions to be told to add the file to C2) on a specific line? (I've tried using ajax, NWjs, however, I don't know how to read a file from outside C2, and this will be necessary because the player itself will have to change it, and if I upload it to C2, the player will not have access to the file.)

    Objective: To be able to read the specific part of the text file outside Construct 2 (Like in game's directory , in which if the player changes to the name of some layout (which will be given when the player finishes a puzzle within the game)), in which that he will do to progress, he changes the layout for the written agreement where the ("Blank") is, (Blank is the initial layout, so the player will have to change the name to enter the next one.) and then, continue progressing in the game, and changing layouts through of that system.

    Summarized: Read ("Blank"), in an text file that has to be outside of the Construct (Like in the game's folder), using ajax, NWjs or any other plugin, in which you can read text files outside the Construct.

    Please help, i'm trying to solve this for more than an day, i know this is such an specific question, but, any help will be so grateful!

  • I don't know how advanced these cheating tools are, maybe a simple obfuscation will do the trick. For example you can store the number as text with some random characters in between: "d9u5p"=95. Or replace numbers with letters: "V"=1, "X"=2, "B"=3 etc.

    > And, a hash value will be not possible to find it in the Cheat Engine?

    Yeah, but Cheat Engine doesn't know that you are using hashing, so it will not be looking for it.

    See this demo:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5oru3mfi1hwpco/HashDemo.capx?dl=0

    It requires CBhash plugin.

    Thanks, i liked the encrypt method, and it works fine!

  • Call me crazy, but I would rather know if someone was cheating.

    Just a thought.

    Yes, it was, but, thanks to these heroes up, i could patch succesfully an bit of the CE.

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  • > Paragraph 1: I tried that method but, the Cheat Engine will compare ALL things that has the same value, so, probably the cheater will choose all that have the health value and change it/lock it. I tried saving the health variable to a server but, is client side so, it's cheatable too.

    >

    I mean to spread your health over more than one variable.

    Do constant static variables help in this situation? seems like they would be in protected memory.

    see here are cheat users trying to find ways around constants...

    https://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?p=5657759

    The player health is an instance variable but, even if the player health was an static global variable, that won't work. I tried that in an test game, and i could change the variable. Even with more than 1 variable. I've just changed the 3 variables that i made ( 2 Global and 1 instance ), and i could cheat freely.

  • One option that can help is protecting your sensitive variables with a hash. For example, every time you change Health variable, calculate a new hash for it. Every time you need to check if player has enough health, also check if the hash is correct. If the hash is wrong - you know that the player is trying to cheat.

    This, of course, will not make your game completely unhackable, but I believe people will not be able to cheat using automated software like Cheat Engine.

    Idk so much about Hash, if possible, you can send me some topics about it? And, a hash value will be not possible to find it in the Cheat Engine? And thanks, didn't thinked in that way, gonna try it after i searched a bit about it.

  • Ay bro, if possible, can you be more specific to what you want? Didn't understand it a bit.

  • If you don't care about the people cheating, why even bothering then?

    It's their decision if they want their fun destroyed, they problably DO have fun cheating. Otherwise they wouldn't do it.

    I think you are certainly going into a completely wrong direction. You can't dictate a player that he won't have fun cheating, because he is missing all those "I did it!" moments. He definitely knows that he bypasses those intentionally, so you should not bother about cheaters.

    If your game would be either online or have certain important unlockables, cheater might be a bigger problem. But if not, just keep working on the game.

    Yes, the game ins't online and doens't have unlockables. I think you're right, just let then cheat. i though that if the player cheats, he can't have fun on my game, but, if he choose the option to cheat, so, i think he's going to have it anyway, just because he knows he managed to cheat in an undertale game. Thanks anyway bro.

  • Yes, making the 'Every X Seconds' updating data can be better and will not outrun the memory of the game, and, the 'Every Tick' will literally at every 1 tick updates the game screen, but, you can do it with the 'Every X Seconds' for better Ram memory. Normally i use the 'Every X Seconds' to minify the use of the Ram, specially when i'm making an bigger game. But, you can normally do with boths, the only change is that will affect the game's perfomance.

  • Yes you could have more than one health variable and you can compare them or do some sort of checksum. Or just periodically save the current health to a backup variable and then compare them. However I will say this seems like a lot of work to prevent a would-be 'cheater'. Is it worth it?

    Do you expect a lot of people to cheat in your game? This alpha tester told you they use it and I almost feel that if people go through that many steps to cheat, I would probably let them. It only harms themselves since they are 'breaking' the game.

    Paragraph 1: I tried that method but, the Cheat Engine will compare ALL things that has the same value, so, probably the cheater will choose all that have the health value and change it/lock it. I tried saving the health variable to a server but, is client side so, it's cheatable too.

    Paragraph 2: I think an medium number of players would cheat. The alpha tester cheated because he told to me that the game is so difficulty and he wanted to know that if is possible to cheat with it. I'm making an Undertale fan-game based synced with the background music. So, like it's a Undertale game, i think that will be a lot of people interested on playing, and, a lot of kid, including the kiddies that think they're anonymous with Cheat Engine. So, they won't handle the difficulty of my game, and, cheat. Like i said, if i could detect the opened programs, it can work too but, if the player tries to rename it to test if he can bypass, he will succed. And, some players won't cheat just to have the fun of the game, that is just survive. And, i don't care about if the player cheats too or not, but, i care about the fun of my game. If the player cheats, what type of fun he will acquire? Like, some games gives you cheat options to make you have fun, but, in my game, that is not possible. Seeing you going trough difficulty phases, dodgin everything, and, having that satisfaction of "I did it!", that's the fun of the game, like an normal rage game.

    So, i don't know other types of Ant-cheat method, so, any other better option i would be really thankfull, i think an ant-cheat is not so much needed but, anyways, it will better to have one. Every type of ant-cheat that works, will be useful for me.

  • So,i'm making an terror gamer that changes the computer of the player, like White Face. So, i want to detect when the PC/Windows is turned on with an offline api ( or plugin ( which is used a lot in idle games ) ) to detect it, but, i don't know none that can do this. So, if you have some ideas or can help me, just comment!

    The objective is: Detect if the PC/Windows was turned on ( when he was shutdown by the game ), and, open the game automatically.

    (I just need an event to detect it while the game is closed. To open the game is an easy one code.)

  • I'm making an boss-fight game based, and, one of my alpha tester used cheat engine to get unlimited health. I thinked that to make an ant-cheat will be easy, but, it won't. So, i need an help to make an ant-cheat for the health of the player. I tried making an mask that count the health of the player and the original health, but, if you search the same value in Cheat engine, you can change boths and the ant-cheat won't work. So, i need an big help at this, if you know a code that detects the name of the application opened it will work but can be easily bypassed, but, it's something.

    Objective 1.0: If the value life is changed without being by the game, will close the game.

    Objective 2.0: Check the name of all applications opened, and, if one is named Cheat Engine, close the game. ( I'll prefer the objective 1.0, however, this works to.)

  • to get the colour of a pixel, you will have to use the canvas plugin, paste the sprite to the canvas.

    Then you can use Canvas.redAt(x,y) Canvas.greenAt(x,y) and Canvas.blueAt(x,y) to get the rgb values.

    there are lots of other ways to make maps - load json data, tilemaps, etc.

    Thanks bro, it worked but, other ways to make map of dungeons using json or others ways, can you tell me an example?

  • I'm making an dungeon game, and, for every dungeon level, i need more than 1 pattern to generate dungeons. So, i made 1 sprite that i called dungeon layout, and, he has more than 30 animations. These animations are the dungeon layout, so, in each animation, it has a blue pixel = Walls, green pixel = Traps, and yellow pixel = Chest. My objective is, to detect the color of the pixel and changes it for the designited object. Like, change the yellow pixel to an chest. But, detecting automatically in every animation to make it easier to load a lot of dungeon layouts. ( If you know a better dungeon generator system, tell me too. Like, an random generator without making animations. )

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  • and here:

    https://www.construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/debugcommand-console-via-137674

    All your sirs are a hero. Ty for these tutorials!