[casual_games] Making a Case for Flash

[Duncan Gough]

If there are serious prizes at stake then it would be risky to just  
accept the score without coding in other checks and balances,  
especially server-side, regardless of the language you're using.  
There are plenty of prize games written in Flash too, like Balls  
(http://games.ladbrokes.com/), that have to secure and as far as I  
can tell, they are.

You're right about Flash Lite though, until that supports AS2 it's  
not going to be a real competitor to Java gaming on mobile phones.

On 18 Aug 2005, at 20:13, Charles Parcell wrote:

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> Kenny Rosenblatt wrote:
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>> And a final note regarding Flash security, it’s no surprise that  
>> you can search the web for "flash decompilers" and spend $25 bucks  
>> on a program to decompile an SWF file, but honestly, who cares?  
>> The positives totally outweigh the negatives. I'd say that less  
>> than 1% of the casual game community would really attempt to  
>> decompile your code. Would you really discard Flash as a  
>> programming language because less than 1% of the community is  
>> trying to hack your warez? At Arkadium, we know plenty about Flash  
>> decompilers, and since we know they exist, we build in additional  
>> security measures to protect ourselves from this vulnerability.  
>> There are thousands of ways to build in safeguards to protect the  
>> integrity of your game without relying on Flash to do the heavy  
>> lifting.
>>
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>
> What if you are offering a prize for highest score? Hack the code  
> and send in a high score. There is much more at stake than just  
> intellectual property!
>
> Secondly, it should be noted that Flash Lite currently only  
> supports Flash Player 4 equivalent ActionScript. There is an update  
> to Flash Lite that will allow it to run Flash 5 equivalent  
> ActionScript.
>
> Charles P.
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