I created a NodeJS script to make life a little easier. It supports two arguments one for backing up (-b) your files before processing and another to obfuscate (-o) your code before converting your game into a SuperGame.love file.
Currently, it's written for Mac, but it could easily be adapted to Windows and Linux. I would be more than happy to include them in the github page I have for it if someone is so inclined to create them.
Three things,
0. Hi and welcome to the forums!
1. Be aware that the obfuscation is more or less reversible to some extent, not really giving any amount of protection should someone really wanted to have a look-see, and
2. from luaJIT:
The generated bytecode is portable and can be loaded on any architecture that LuaJIT supports, independent of word size or endianess. However the bytecode compatibility versions must match. Bytecode stays compatible for dot releases (x.y.0 → x.y.1), but may change with major or minor releases (2.0 → 2.1) or between any beta release. Foreign bytecode (e.g. from Lua 5.1) is incompatible and cannot be loaded.
Me and my stuff True Neutral Aspirant. Why, yes, i do indeed enjoy sarcastically correcting others when they make the most blatant of spelling mistakes. No bullying or trolling the innocent tho.
Thanks for the notes! I hadn't done a whole lot of research on it, but either way I figured someone might find the script useful.
Is there any other obfuscation methods that aren't reversible? I figure there are people that'd like to keep their code private without compiling an app... If that even does that. I just started messing around with the engine, after all.
Why'd you write in NodeJS though? You know you could use LÖVE itself for that purpose, right?
There's no such obfuscation methods that aren't reversible. If you'd obfuscate your program that it cannot be turned back to machine code, you wouldn't be able to run it.
Obfuscating your code is a silly sentiment. What do you have in there that warrants doing it? Military secret algorithm? Please.
Besides, imo it's arrogance to think that whatever code one might write has any chance of being used in another program without actually understanding it (not to mention 1:1 carbon copying wouldn't even work, and taking notes of code shouldn't be a crime), and that takes way longer than what people would sacrifice to do that... unless we talking about chinese ripoffs, but i'm guessing that's not your intended market either.
Thing is, people would more likely rip your assets off, than your code, and that too, should be protected by licenses and copyright and the like.
Last edited by zorg on Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:48 am, edited 1 time in total.
Me and my stuff True Neutral Aspirant. Why, yes, i do indeed enjoy sarcastically correcting others when they make the most blatant of spelling mistakes. No bullying or trolling the innocent tho.
raidho36 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 11, 2018 7:48 pm
Obfuscating your code is a silly sentiment. What do you have in there that warrants doing it? Military secret algorithm? Please.
Don't you mock my military secrets!
I wrote it in Node because I'm used to using it and had nothing better to do with my 4th day of dealing with insomnia. I thought it might be helpful, but if not... eh. It was something to do.
True Neutral Aspirant. Why, yes, i do indeed enjoy sarcastically correcting others when they make the most blatant of spelling mistakes. No bullying or trolling the innocent tho.
