Mobius Goddess
Game engines for offline games must be the only place where obfuscation of algorithm (writing your own custom game engine that gets compiled into machine code) is more powerful than using common engine with encryption (cus key gets stored locally).
ARG and multiplayer games sure like that
Mobius Goddess
Oh, this looks good
https://godot.community/topic/35/protecting-your-godot-project-from-decompilation/
SuperDicq
@foxysen@pawb.fun Why would you want to "project" your Godot project from decompilation?
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun They will do that anyway, they don't need the original game's source code for that.
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun This this affect you as the developer in any way tho?
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun People who fall for shitty Google Play scam apps are not the same audience that actually seeks out indie games. There is literally zero overlap between their audience and your potential audience.
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun Keeping your software secret heavily goes against my ethics as a free software activist, but it is too early on a monday to have a long rant about how obscurity is not a good way to protect anyone and only does more harm than good in the long run.
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SuperDicq
@foxysen@pawb.fun @hj@shigusegubu.club If you publish a game that is not personal private information.
Mobius Goddess
@SuperDicq @hj Right to privacy
SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun Anyway can fall victim to a scam but certain types of people are a factor million more likely to fall for one.
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun Also as soon as you publish something bit is no longer private, even if you call it an "alpha" or something like that.
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun If you're feeding people cake without telling them what's inside (could even be poison) that's pretty bad.
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun Comparing source code to recipes is a bad analogy anyway. In software development a recipe is more like the documentation anyway, source code is more like ingredients (things people with allergies should know). No wait, maybe I should just stop with this analogy.
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Mobius Goddess
@SuperDicq @hj *points at open source AI counterfeit and deepfake software*
Open source is not the ethic by itself, it's ethic sometimes calling for open source and sometimes for closed. And looking at current context, I have changed my mind on neutrality of technology that was assumed during "The End of History" era.
SuperDicq
@foxysen@pawb.fun @hj@shigusegubu.club I'm not sure what exact issue you're exactly referring to with "open source AI counterfeit and deepfake software". Are you referring to the specific issue of companies such as Microsoft ignoring the code's license when gathering training data or something else entirely?
Open source is not the ethic by itself, it's ethic sometimes calling for open source and sometimes for closed.I also don't know what this means. I never mentioned open source, I don't think the open source movement is very concerned about ethics.
Personally I also don't believe we're living in a "end of history" era either, but and that doesn't have anything to do with my opinions on freedom.
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun Not that this analogy makes any sense, but I want to point out that cooking recipes are not instructions for the kitchen. The kitchen does not read instructions. They are instructions to be read by the human on what to do in the kitchen, i.e. documentation.
I still think the source code are the ingredients. The games' assets are more like the dinnerware and tablecloth you serve your dish on. You can swap out your tablecloth (asset) out for one in a different color but that doesn't change the ingredients of the dish.
Ace Attorney Bot
@hj Here's the court session
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Mobius Goddess
@hj @SuperDicq uff, I don't know what the bot is going to be like but I am going to state that I do not support the context of ace attorney battle here and give basic respect the people here despite heavy disagreements
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SuperDicq
@hj@shigusegubu.club @foxysen@pawb.fun Same, I can discuss software ethics all day.
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Mobius Goddess
@SuperDicq @hj oh, these things are connected in my mind
SuperDicq
@foxysen@pawb.fun @hj@shigusegubu.club 99% of open source software licenses are also free software licenses.
But the actual political and social movements that are behind open source and free software are completely different and couldn't be further apart.
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