Resolved How can I make an Anti-Cheat for a Clicker?

Hi! I want to make a clicker, but I'm afraid people will cheat... because if everything is happening in the client it's easy to cheat.

I have an idea of an Online Database that will check the values in the client and compare them to the ones in the Cloud, if the difference is too big, the player's account will get terminated. (It's an online game, if there's no connection it won't work)

The problem is.... I don't know how to do it

Do you have any suggestions?

And no, giving up on this project is not an option

 

The meaning of anti-cheat in an offline game?
The purpose of the anti cheat is to prevent cheating by players in online games

You can of course change the value in memory using the Xor operation

my_value = value ^ key
where value is your value, key is the key to the value

 

I want this game to be online at a certain point in time

 

Just do not trust the client with some game actions, transfer them to the server side. You should not care what the player does with the game client...

 

How can I do this?

 

Since you're asking such a question, then I don't need to tell you how to do it

 

Oof

I'm new into this, that's why I asked for help

 

If you want it to be cheat proof and online, but don't need real time multiplayer, you need a BaaS - see my post here for example. All actions that the player takes need to be authenticated by the online backend to make it cheat-proof.

There are a few, but personally I use PlayFab which is easy to get started with and is free up until a point. Once you have learnt the basics by authenticating a user, you there is an economy page here with useful information on things like virtual currency and a catalogue of items.

It's a lot to learn if you haven't used an online backend before, but you need some kind of backend to store player data and authenticate transactions for this type of game if you want it online and cheat-proof.

 

You simulate everything you can on the server instead of the client. Anything on the client is subject to cheating. The server also trusts the client inputs as little as possible, and provides the client with as little extra information about the game state that the client doesn't need as is possible.

 

Hi guys! Thank you so much!

One more question, if I don't figure out how to do it on the server, can I just encrypt the values?

 

There are ways to increase the difficulty of someone cheating in your game, but the more popular your game gets the harder it becomes. Instead of encrypting values a more painless place to start would be with something like the Anti-Cheat Toolkit on the asset store, alongside something which obfuscates your code.

If you don't do anything online, then there is rarely any point in trying to making it cheat proof. If you do make it online then the server has authoritative last say in what the player is allowed to do, and generally stores the state of that players economy.

By doing server side checks on what the player is allowed to do, you make it much harder for someone to cheat.

 

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