Re: [pygame] Save files

[Ian Mallett <geometrian@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, there are two approaches.

The first, not caring, is probably easiest--and your players will appreciate it, too.  Yes, they can max out their stats.  That's the point.

The second is to do some kind of encryption.  Ideally, you make your game with plaintext data files, and then add some light encryption on top when you're ready to release.  This can be as simple as reversing the bits of each data byte, or even a Caesar Cipher.  Most gamers ready are pretty lame about this sort of thing.  You can use RSA if you really want to make it statistically impossible to break, but honestly, I think that's overkill.

Keep in mind that you'll need to be careful about how you do this.  For example, .py files are easily read, and so no matter what you do, a person would be able to undo any encryption you can come up with.  .pyc or .exe won't save you, in some cases--string literals (i.e., your encryption key) are easily extracted from these files.

Ian