FLYINGJESTER'S PROFILE

Intel Atom CPUs are less powerful per GHz than any other modern x86 processor, besides.

I remember.

It was nice when a game was designed solely and totally to be fun. No licences. No sequels that trick you into buying them because they bore the original's name.

And back then, there was certainly a creative freedom that came from not needing to explain anything, it can just be the way it is.

Bear in mind I always have to build my own battle systems.

I usually make stat systems that have four or six stats, kind of like this:

Strength - Physical attack
Endurance - Physical Defense
Agility - Special Attack
Dexterity - Special Defense
And maybe:
Intelligence - Magic Attack
Willpower - Magic Defense

Generally, I like to make each class have one strong type of attack, and one strong type of defense, and have them not be the same kind. Like high Physical Attack and high Special Defense. It's a nice and simple way to give every unit a good strength and weakness at their base.

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Here's what you do to be sure no one hacks your game:

Write the engine yourself. And write parts of it in different programming languages. Very different languages, that use different technology in their compilers, like C in Visual C and DarkBasic and Mercury transcompiled to compiled to Java compiled by the MingW/GCC. You'll probably want more languages involved than just three. And write several complex functions in assembly. Better if you use unusual instructions, like making use of SSE2 and MMX for things they aren't really for, in a way that most compilers would never do. Then embed a scripting language, a weird one. Or two, that's better. Have your engine use JavaScript and Python together, for example, or Pawn and GameMonkey. And then have half the scripts be embedded in an encrypted dynamic library, with the key taken from some mathematical translation of some property of the files themselves, like their MD5s or something. And use some arcane encryption, like Camilla.

Then, use a hex editor on some of the final binaries (obviously not the MD5'ed ones) and change portions of the PE header to cause misdirection by strict compliance, but still work under windows (that will throw off some debuggers and memory walkers). Same with the comments section.

Then, it will take a decent amount of work to crack into your game. Still not as much work as you put into obfuscating it, but more than normal.