Forums » Impact Engine » Baking is not enough

I just made my first game which I have baked but with simple browser add on I was able to revert the process and view my source code (not to mention the impact source) I am guessing all the games done in impact can be reverted at this point in time.

Why not use google's closure compliler to obscure the source code?

http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home

Just paste your code and choose advanced when compiling - most of it will be unreadable - but you will need probably to use online API for it to work

other way to obscure your code is to use the uglifier

http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/uglifyjs

This one works on its own.

I agree that the current bake scripts are not "good enough" at obfuscation for a game that's going to get a lot of traction.

It would also be great if after baking, there were no global variables available. It's quite easy for anyone with a little bit of know-how to just do something like... ig.game.setScore(100000000000);

I know its a drawback of doing stuff in JavaScript but it is annoying that anyone can revert the process - and basically steal the code - not to mention the impact framework for which people paid $99.

Does anyone know a fool-proof way of protecting what you have created using impact?

No offence to Jerczu, but if I were Dominic, I'd remove this topic. If only because it's bringing light to something none of us particularly want to be known by others.

The closest you'll get to fool-proof baking is compiling it into the source of an application rather than having it hosted online in a browser.

No offence taken

Well anyone who has a little to do with web development will be able to do it so there is no mystery unfolding here.

But yeah if Dominic sees it as a problem yeah remove the post...

Also putting together new baking script would be nice.

There was a lengthy discussion along this line a few months ago.

You don't need to go to such lengths to get a copy of the engine, if you know where to look. Suffice to say, some people are being quite careless with baking, which annoys me no end.