I have thought of that! Whilst not using SSL it should be fine, if anyone wants to try and submit a false score let me know, be a good test of my solution (to see if it works or not!), sniff away!
Ive changed the instructions on the game, if anyone could have a look and let me know if its any clearer that would be great, thanks!
doy ou sue mysql database with php for the highscore.
and if so. Make sure taht you dont have the password in the source code. Just ahve it hardcoded into teh php script.
only problem is taht someone can decompile your game, get the php url. And the send false urls.
It aint too hard to fake it.
No php, pure Java/JSP on my server (Tomcat), there are a few things going on behind the scenes so false submission of scores by the manner of packetsniffing or decompiling of any client-side code should be easily differentiated from real score submission. Thanks for the tips though!
yeah, if you use jsp.It might be harder. does jsp pass the variables along in url, or like a socket? either way, it can be falsified.
and I dont think there are any fool proof ways to stop decompiling and packetsniffing. if you send a marker. They can just decompile and then see the algorithm you use.
if you got another method please share(unless it is a secret :P).
Can’t fault the instructions. Pity there’s no way of making sure the player reads them.
Simon
you could. just have a boolen readInstructions, which gets set true when you go to the instructions.
games dot aht all of the time
Sure it does do that, as in the instructions should pop up before the player gets to the game whatever route they take, but a lot of people just click skip or play strait away without reading, i imagine that is what you ment dishmoth?
in a nutshell, a record of each game is kept on the server when the game starts, the gameplay info from the client is serialised and sent over a standard HTTP connection, and then verified aginst the initial game orientation, so really it’s not the scores that are being passed back but the gameplay, so packetsniffing will be of no avail unless you can replace the info with legal gameplay info, which you could falsify by picking apart the code and plugging a load more code into it, but it would be a lot of work, it would be a LOT easier to obtain the high score by playing the game 
There are a couple of other small things too but i might keep them as my trade secrets, but ive described the main stuff there.
Ta
rackham
Yep, there’s a big difference between seeing instructions and reading them.
Apologies if I haven’t been paying enough attention, but the old instructions were one-page long while the new version is three pages, yes? Presumably it’s the short version that you’re forcing on the player at the start of the game?
Simon
no it’s the longer one, but i tried to include more visual examples and make it clearer / cover the things people were confused about, do you think ive made it worse? It’s very challenging the art of getting information across quickly!
you going to have trouble making people read 3 pages before they play your game :P.
and yaeh dismoth, I get waht you mean now.
The longer instructions are better, but keeping things down to a single page for the ‘quick start’ guide wouldn’t be a bad idea.
That said, you could be giving lessons in high-quality game presentation, so you don’t have to take anything I say too seriously. 
Simon
well i dont know about that but ill take the complement, thank you! 8)
i just need to get some users on the site now (or advertisers if anyones interested!)
You could try asking around at Indiegamer. That site’s a lot more money-oriented than this one.
Simon
Why are you using click + Z to emulate a right-click on Mac? Why not use CTRL-click like Mac users would expect?
Nice game though.
Because CTRL+Arrow keys causes Spaces to activate and turns on a different desktop?
The game is controlled with the mouse only, I thought.
I dunno, it was just a guess.
i may change that, im not a mac user and cant really access one to test but i thought that ctrl+click wasent purely a right click, and may trigger other actions, ill look into it! (i did have it as ctrl click at first and it didnt work and i didnt have time to work out why)
Moved back to showcase section from featured section for link being a dead.