Stefan Gagne (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} twoflower) wrote,@ 2008-05-05 09:25:00 |
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You Can't Hide Secrets From The Future
So after a weekend of aimless, restless boredom and shuffling from shootan to teevee and such, a white-hat hacker found an exploit in 7Seas.
As horrible as that sounds, at least it gave me something to focus on, something to be energized by. I immediately started drafting up plans for version 2.2 of the game. I hate to publish an update so soon after the latest one, but if I carry this off according to plan, it should (in theory, as always) be the last update. After that you'd need some heavy duty packet sniffing tools to hack this thing, way overkill for a fishing game.
Of course, I don't believe in patching just to close a hole. So I polled 7Seas owners for new features they'd like to see, and have a swath of them (mostly low hanging fruit) ready to code in so that swallowing the update becomes more palatable. Levels above 5, gear vendor profit tallies, numerous contest board feeps, and local custom prizes are in the works.
There's some preproduction to puzzle through and code to work out tonight, and we're weeks away from a release, but I think this'll be a good step forward and not just a CYA move.
Of course, this didn't stop me from having an endless series of nightmares tonight about things going wrong in mysterious and terrible ways. Like being in a car ride with my parents, then getting KOed and waking up with blood in the car and them missing, and me having to drive the thing home myself (er, how? I can't physically drive their car, that's where I kinda knew it was a dream) and try to remember the road intersection where I lost them, and other horrible things. Not a fun night. In fact, generally I never have GOOD dreams. Either I don't have dreams (yay!) or I have ones full of frustration and feeling helpless (boo.) Yay me.
So after a weekend of aimless, restless boredom and shuffling from shootan to teevee and such, a white-hat hacker found an exploit in 7Seas.
As horrible as that sounds, at least it gave me something to focus on, something to be energized by. I immediately started drafting up plans for version 2.2 of the game. I hate to publish an update so soon after the latest one, but if I carry this off according to plan, it should (in theory, as always) be the last update. After that you'd need some heavy duty packet sniffing tools to hack this thing, way overkill for a fishing game.
Of course, I don't believe in patching just to close a hole. So I polled 7Seas owners for new features they'd like to see, and have a swath of them (mostly low hanging fruit) ready to code in so that swallowing the update becomes more palatable. Levels above 5, gear vendor profit tallies, numerous contest board feeps, and local custom prizes are in the works.
There's some preproduction to puzzle through and code to work out tonight, and we're weeks away from a release, but I think this'll be a good step forward and not just a CYA move.
Of course, this didn't stop me from having an endless series of nightmares tonight about things going wrong in mysterious and terrible ways. Like being in a car ride with my parents, then getting KOed and waking up with blood in the car and them missing, and me having to drive the thing home myself (er, how? I can't physically drive their car, that's where I kinda knew it was a dream) and try to remember the road intersection where I lost them, and other horrible things. Not a fun night. In fact, generally I never have GOOD dreams. Either I don't have dreams (yay!) or I have ones full of frustration and feeling helpless (boo.) Yay me.
