Technical articles on Android game security, client integrity, game engines, and the threats developers need to understand.
By some estimates, the Cocos engine holds around 20% of the global games market. Its strength is 2D rendering, which makes it a natural fit for small and mid-sized titles. But Cocos is open source, and that openness has made it an especially popular target for crackers.
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In Unity game development, AssetBundles are one of the most widely used resource management mechanisms. Character models, textures, audio files, UI assets, configuration data, and even entire game levels are often packaged and distributed through AssetBundles.
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In recent years, the mini-game market has surged in popularity, accompanied by severe security challenges. Basic reinforcement measures no longer meet the demands of game development, leading to widespread Hack issues across many mini-games. Balancing the encryption strength of AssetBundles with package size has also become a significant challenge.
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Mini-games, due to their high popularity and large player base, are more susceptible to disruption by game-related black and gray markets. Compared to client-based and mobile games, mini-games are easier to Hack, leading to frequent incidents of mini-game Hack in the market. Mini-games primarily face the following categories of game security issues:
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Compared to Unity, the UE engine excels in its powerful graphics rendering and visual effects, better aligning with the current gaming market's demand for high-quality, premium titles. However, like Unity, the UE engine also faces unavoidable security challenges, with numerous resource hack tools targeting the UE engine now available on the market.
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AssetStudio is a commonly used resource extraction tool. This article analyses how games should address hacking issues through case studies and proposes effective solutions.
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This article will focus on analysing how games should respond to IL2cppDumper's reverse engineering in IL2CPP mode and provide effective solutions.
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The UE engine's strengths lie in its powerful graphics and visual effects, which align well with the current gaming market's demand for high-quality, premium content. However, the UE engine also faces security issues, especially as there are already many hacking tools targeting the UE engine on the market.
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Unlike Android's open source ecosystem, iOS's closed source ecosystem's hardware, software, and services are strictly reviewed and tested, ensuring a certain level of security and stability. However, this has also led to some companies neglecting security issues during development, such as iOS game anti-cheats and anti-hacking.
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JikGuard conducted an in-depth analysis of the Unity Resources resource loading principle, found the core points of encryption and decryption, and constructed a solution and algorithm for random encryption of resources.
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Compared to Unity, Unreal Engine's advantage lies in its powerful graphics and visual effects, which align with the game market's demand for high-quality, premium games. However, like Unity, Unreal Engine also faces serious security issues.
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Lua with its small and fast characteristics has gradually become the majority of game developers must study, so the security of Lua for game developers is very important.
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JikGuard has conducted an in-depth analysis of the Unity Resources resource loading principle, found the core point of encryption and decryption, and constructed a solution and algorithm for random encryption of resources.
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