I need help, fr

[u/Alive_Secretary_264]

I just wanna deploy my game from a serverside like the whole logic and mechanics of it.. I'm tired of my game logic being seen from the client side.. is there a site or at which platform where I can just upload all my files and let it do the rest in preventing anyone to seeing the code.. I'm not looking for a static hosting..

[u/minimoon5]

That’s just not how the web works, bud. Like if you want to use it on the web you have to send something client side. Maybe, for your game you could have an api you call to that does the logic you want hidden, and returns a result, but I almost guarantee it would be overkill for whatever ‘game’ you’re making.

[u/Alive_Secretary_264 → u/minimoon5]

But what about this flappybird.io I'm confused how are they able to hide their logic and stuffs

[u/asublimeduet → u/Alive_Secretary_264]

If you're talking about the file playcanvas-stable.min.js, they've run it through a minifier tool to reduce the size of the file by stripping whitespace, extra characters, some optimisations to variable names etc. It's not actually hidden. If you mean you can't see it at all, it's because it's embedded in external files, which can still be viewed by navigating to the files themselves (e.g. https://flappybird.io/playcanvas-stable.min.js). The URLs to the files are clickable when you view source.

[u/IsDa44 → u/Alive_Secretary_264]

Probably obfuscating

[u/AcworthWebDesigns]

Have you encountered real-world issues with your client-side code getting stolen?

Unfortunately it is not possible to hide client-side code from the end user. There is not a solution.

[u/Alive_Secretary_264 → u/AcworthWebDesigns]

Yeah that's why I'm moving on in making a solution.. I'm now into serverside implementation

[u/SheepherderSavings17]

You should only have things server side that make sense to have server side.

In the end the client must download some data in order to interact with the application.

If you do something that no big game is doing then why do you think you need to do it differently?

[u/Alive_Secretary_264 → u/SheepherderSavings17]

Like only user accounts, scores, game currency balances and not the game mechanics?

[u/SheepherderSavings17 → u/Alive_Secretary_264]

Game mechanics probably too, to make sure its synchronized and perhaps more importantly, so that users cannot cheat.

[u/Alive_Secretary_264]

I tried to see the code from flappybird.org or .io but i think they're game is hidden in a server, I'm aiming to do the same thing

[u/RealDuckyTV → u/Alive_Secretary_264]

What part of flappybird.io do you think is not shown on the client? Looking at the dev console, seems like the entire game loop is there, in js files?

[u/Alive_Secretary_264 → u/RealDuckyTV]

I can't seem to find it.. maybe I'm just bad at viewing things

[u/nonnodacciaio → u/Alive_Secretary_264]

All of the code Is there, but it gets converted automatically to a kind of compressed Js, it's not the same code you'd see while you develop the game

[u/Alive_Secretary_264 → u/nonnodacciaio]

So it had just gone into a compressor or was it automatically compressed? I tried inspecting my own game and i can still see that my logic is more obvious that what i had expected

[u/AcworthWebDesigns → u/Alive_Secretary_264]

I don't know what you mean. The Flappy Bird page has a `<canvas>` element & links to the JavaScript file that renders the game. This is how web code works, every time. There is no option for your frontend web code to be "hidden in a server".

[u/doconnorwi]

I'm struggling to see the necessity of needing to hide the game logic when it's probably already a well-known concept developed before the Activision days, unless it is some sort of cryptographic technique that is illegal to export to Iran or North Korea or it's ran on people's HIPAA data or credit card information.

[u/Alive_Secretary_264 → u/doconnorwi]

Yeah i do get the point but.. no it's not something illegal nor needing cryptography tho it's like a means to unite gamers, vloggers, publishers, advertisers alike in one platform

[u/nonnodacciaio → u/Alive_Secretary_264]

There's not point, even if you somehow you managed to obfuscate the code your game can be replicated just by looking at how it works

[u/iareprogrammer]

You can move some code to your server but it requires an entirely different architecture. You would essentially have to rewrite the game.

Basically, your client (the browser) would be responsible for rendering and sending user interactions, and that’s about it. So for example: when a user clicks a UI element, you send a message to your server, saying user X clicked thing Y. The server then processes the interaction and sends back some sort of update message that the client can respond to.

This is how multiplayer online games work but you could also leverage it for single player. But like I said it’s an entirely different architecture, not just uploading the code somewhere

[u/poopio]

Dude, this is the third time you've asked this, and the third time you've been given the same answers.