[casual_games] Encrypting text files

[Ricky Haggett]

Diogo - Cheers! I'll look into the LZMA SDK you linked. We currently have no
plans to release our engine - at this stage it's purely for games we're
developing in-house. I'm pretty sure someone recently sent a decent list of
available engines here, which I can dig out if you need.

Dlp - I guess that would work for the existing lua files, but I don't know
whether you can compile lua at runtime from within the C API? At any rate,
that wouldn't work for xml.


-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of dlpnet
Sent: 15 January 2008 13:10
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Encrypting text files

Hello,


> Our engine makes extensive use of xml and lua to mark up GUI, provide 

> scripting, level data, save game files etc.

> This is all great, but one issue we have is that these text files can be 

> opened and edited, to hack the save game file and otherwise muck around 

> with the internal gubbins of the game.


just a simple answer (maybe too simple), have you try luac to compile 
lua files ?

Dlp


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