Cheat Engine

[Lorrenzo]

Would it be hard to create a program like gameguard to put on something like a game you make yourself..?

[appalsap]

Yes

[compactwater]

[Lorrenzo]

Dam.

[appalsap]

If you dont want people cheating your game, try designing it a little better instead of trying to rootkit your users.

[Dark Byte]

or just put your game on a handheld device with where all external ports are removed (except network port) so people will have to solder to edit the game.
And use heavy encryption on your communication else people can use a man-in-the-middle approach and packet edit with that

of course, it'll cost a bit to send those devices to all people that want to play, but hey, it's 'pretty' safe

also, making a program 'like' gameguard isn't hard, you just need to learn how x86 based cpu's work and how windows internally works

[Lorrenzo]

Well..hell with that..peeps can just hax.

[linden]

CE and anti-cheat are just two sides of a coin.
So if you know what you need to do, it's not hard to make a simple anti-cheat based on CE's source, instead of writing one from scratch.

Basically all you need to do is...hook everything, hide everything, encrypt everything and obfuscate everything The first two can be achieved by editing CE's source...