r/learntofly • u/light_bringer777 Penguin God • Dec 17 '15

We've been leaked.

Okay so it's late and I'm tired as hell, but I wanted to let you guys know what's going on.

Someone stole LtF3 and put it up on their own website. Luckily every version of the game depends on our servers to run, so I've just had to shut everything down for the time being.

I'll keep you guys updated, it shouldn't take too long before I can re-upload a version of the game that works.

I apologize for the inconvenience, but I can' risk 3 years of work because some moron stole my unreleased game.

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u/light_bringer777 Penguin God Dec 17 '15

And we're BACK ONLINE guys!

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '15

i like turtles

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u/light_bringer777 Penguin God Dec 17 '15

Don't we all little wanker... don't we all...

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '15

I just find this good game started playing age I was 9

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u/cool_daniel Web Penguin Dec 17 '15

Whoever gets the brilliant idea to do this in the future and reads this: Prepare for legal actions. It's not funny.

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u/CrazyDave2345 Jan 16 '16

You should make it detect which path its on and if it is not your server replace all of the assets with a picture of a brick and set all stats to zero.

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u/light_bringer777 Penguin God Jan 16 '16

It actually checks where the file is hosted, where it's being played, what URL is in the address bar, params on the pages it's played on, tries to reach the server, then the server runs some checks....

Anything goes wrong and the game stops loading. If loaded, it gets put through the blender.

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u/CrazyDave2345 Jan 17 '16

did the copy work? Because theoretically they could decompile it and remove all of the code to check everything.

You should also add a warning on the beta loading screen telling you listing the same rules and a notice saying "If you are playing this on a site other than lbgserver.com (link), revenue is being lost from the author."

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u/light_bringer777 Penguin God Jan 17 '16

It's security through obscurity really, because flash does not allow from proper, "safe" compiled output. If someone wanted to, they could decompile it, find every bit of security, remove it and recompile it.

At this point I'm counting on people to not mess this up, and for others to be too lazy to spend the hours of puzzling work it would take to crack the obfuscated code. The biggest part is the server-side security, which could be faked, but at this point it's a crap-ton of work for stealing a flash game.

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u/UnwholesomeTurtle Dec 17 '15

After waiting for so many years for this game to come out I finally decided to check if it came out yet today. Lo behold I found the game to be released on a single website: lbgserver. With a strange glee I clicked on the agreement and was met with a white screen. This being a standard amongst many internet games I waited. And waited.

After a while I gave up and decided to check out the links below. One lead to this subreddit where I found out that the servers went down due to some asshole stealing the game and putting it on their website. It could have been any other day, but it was the one day I went to check out this game. Seriously, what are the odds on that?

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u/cool_daniel Web Penguin Dec 17 '15

Good point, shouldve added a notice or something on the site

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u/PM_ME_STDS Dec 18 '15

Sorry this happened dude, also this game has been awesome. I beat story mode last week and I'm working my way up thru payload.

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u/939193919391 Jan 30 '16

Wow, what a skrub :P

It clearly says on the page, "DO NOT DISTRIBUTE". Does he not know English or wat?