Dark,
From sighted indie games of my past, I'm used to the idea of hackers trying
to ruin everyone's fun, so that doesn't upset me as much as others might think.
Yeah it does annoy me, but I don't take it quite as personal as maybe I
should, just because I've seen it for so many years.
What does get under my skin is that several of the Swamp hackers have
changed tactics over the past 4 or 5 months, and they go after my personal
property. In fact, in just the past few weeks with the new testing server up
I've had 2 pretty big attacks that were aimed at damaging my laptop, not Swamp!
I highly doubt these people are smart enough to be developing these attacks
themselves, rather they probably find shady websites and download tools to make
these attacks for them, but that doesn't change the situation very much. The
last one was an attack I've personally never seen before. The automated attack
went through each of the devices in my local LAN and spammed them with a huge
list of common login names and passwords, hoping they'd get luck on one of them.
This is the kind of stuff that could eventually ruin multiplayer audio
games just like most multiplayer mainstream indie games have happen to them.
The problem is that while mainstream indie games continue to come out by the
hundreds and thousands, audio games trickle in at a very slow pace. We simply
cannot afford to see a day when 95% of them are crushed by hackers as soon as
they get popular. I don't have a plan to solve this issue, but I sure hope
someone does.
- Aprone
> From: dark <[email protected]>
> Hi aprone.
>
> I can imagine hackers trying to muck up the game to cheat,
> but to do it simply to cause trouble is down right scummy,
> particularly because it's likely these hackers are probably
> visually impared themselves since they wouldn't have heard
> of the game otherwise, which makes it doubly pathetic given
> that swamp is one of only a few accessible games of this
> type.
>
> it's a shame your Ai can't give them a really nasty virus in
> return, ---- the T virus would suit very well! :D.
>
> sorry, resident evil joke there.
>
> Beware the Grue!
>
> Dark.
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