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Seeing demos and playtests get ripped lately got me looking for ways to make my game’s code harder to reverse-engineer. I came across "GDPP", which compiles GDScript to native code and early tests with my game "Teufelskreis" look very promising! #Godot #IndieDev #GameDev

Here's the reddit post www.reddit.com/r/IndieGamin... To be fair: This dev released the demo containing the full game and only softgated the demo using code. I don't know why in the world you would do it that way but still - It happens.

Thank you for sharing! I’d been hearing a lot about it but this is the first case someone has been able to point me to On one hand it sucks but on the other hand this isn’t new either: flappy bird, the Dark and Darker saga, Jump Ship vs Void Crew, etc all happened before AI was a thing

Still, couldn’t hurt to do the encryption, keep non-demo content out of the demo builds, and only release a demo 1-2 months before actual launch probably helps a lot in preventing all of this

Yeah true. If a big multi million dollar game gets ripped - OK. Unavoidable at some point. But i feel like someone with a bigger marketing budget could frontrun your game very easily nowadays.