Games - Newcomers in the world of "Game Development"

Seems that for awhile i haven't post anything related with game stuff, so here i am!

The topic is: Game Development.

The focus is: Newcomers.

So you have decided that you want make your own game, want make sure that what you want will give you some reward, stop , stop , stop, the first thing that you cannot do is think in the money!

First you might take a look into that "reality" before start dreaming about fantasy.

Well, make a MOD for some game that you like to play.

Q:Make a MOD, Whats this?
A:Modification.

Q:What you mean?
A:Change your favorite game, i mean improve it like you wish.

The reasons are:

1.With a MOD you will know things about work in a group with one clean objective, and the first impressions in most times you will be surprised on how things that are simple can be hard!

2.After you get some experiences working with people with "same interests" you might start your project with a serious dedication, at first time, yea appears to be a hard goal, but that is your first attempt, so relax and try again.

3.The tools, most of the games today provide some tool kits, like Microsoft SDK, it make things simple because the API of the SDK of the games work on top of the Engines.

Another question

Q:But what can i do with a MOD, MOD is just a MOD no?

A:Did you forget the famous CS (Counter Strike)?

This thing so far got more success than Halflife, and this is just a MOD.On my opinion i believe that TS(The Specialists) was the best MOD shooter for Halflife because the great conversion and new brand effects and dynamic that in Counter Strike you don't have so far.

Long time i have seen too many amateurs that make MOD's in a variety of areas making their things better than professionals, mainly in the games.

Q:Why it?

A:Because the industry of the games(no only games) is always cloning things that others do, and amateurs don't care about it, they are in most times original.

More one great thing, don't start making an MMORPG thats what i see in every forum, make something without networking stuff, but after you make it, read a lot about security on server side applications because at these days some bad infrastructure can break your business.

Has passed some years that i have found some "crackers" working for some "underground" services...

So, start as soon as possible dealing with a clean and safe structures.The internet is growing, the information together, and they go to the both sides...

"Googleing" you may find this site in the first "shot"

http://www.moddb.com

maybe later i put more letters in this post...

Automated - Unpackers

Hi,

Ok are you new in RCE world?

You know some websites that you can find tools, but you still don't believe that these are safe tools?

I have a solution for you!

http://www.dswlab.com/

That company have so many tools and some of them is specially made to unpack executables and identify them.

You can trust, that company is a real one, there is no crackers going to put a rootkit with a backdoor on your machine after you use his tools!

They are really professionals and have great tools:

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For PE Identifier

*File Format Identifier v1.4(the public version)

http://u6.dswlab.com/ffi.zip

Note: that tool is not just for identify the PE, it can unpack it.For be serious there is a variety of packers supported.

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Just for unpack

*VMUnpacker 1.4.3

http://update4.dswlab.com/vmunpacker.zip

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Immunity Debugger v1.5

"This new Immunity Debugger release provides a lot of new scripts and important fixes. New scripts to improve your debugging experience include: gflags, hookssl, and hookndr.

The API has been reinforced with new functionality which allows you to gather more information from the remote process, such as Threads, findRetValue. This release also includes some important fixes such as correct Memory Page protection flags, which are also available via the Python API." March 27, 2008

And more, was announced that they are looking for some experts (hackers =p)

http://debugger.immunityinc.com/hireahacker.html

Immunity Debugger is very similar to the OllyDbg but with great support for python language and a lot of useful functionalities already done for use with python language, for example, the functionalities intent to hook are pretty good.

Well, cya, i go test that release !

1st of April

Today after browsing i decided to look at metaslploit website, look for something related with framework progress, what i found?

"Metasploit Framework 4.0 is Closed Source

Emerging from over a year and a half in stealth-mode, Metasploit Corporation has announced the 4.0 release of their flag-ship product, The Metasploit Framework. The new release comes jam-packed with exciting features that are sure to please even the German legal system. After years of struggling to define Metasploit's licensing position a final decision has been made to "screw it" and move the framework to a closed source license agreement. The decision was made to sell out for a number of reasons, not the least of which has to do with the benjamins. Metasploit 2.x and 3.x will no longer be available for public download. We request that anyone who has downloaded a copy of Metasploit 2 or 3 to please remove the hard drive from their computer and destroy it in the most efficient way possible (grind the disks, melt the platters, etc). "

LOL i forgot that today is the "Day" ^^

Now i'm waiting someone say "Microsoft acquire Yahoo" Haha!

Wireshark 1.0 Released

Would you like to use an advanced tool for examine a wide variety of protocols?

If yes you have Wireshark!

Ok, you still can use WinPcap libraries to do your job in some customized application using c/c++, python, and so on, but with wireshark you have so far a good tool.

The 1.0 version has finally reached, i remember when i first used the ethereal(old name), but now it's amazing, with more statistics, better parser, more protocols, functionalities, etc.



What's New

Bug Fixes

The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround.

*The X.509sat dissector could crash.

Versions affected: 0.99.5 to 0.99.8

*The Roofnet dissector could crash on Windows, Solaris, and possibly other platforms.

Versions affected: 0.99.5 to 0.99.8

*The LDAP dissector could crash on Windows and possibly other platforms.

Versions affected: 0.99.2 to 0.99.8

*The SCCP dissector could crash while using the "decode as" feature.

Versions affected: 0.99.6 to 0.99.8

The following bugs have been fixed:

*Several SNMP-related bugs have been fixed.
*Several memory-related bugs have been fixed.

New and Updated Features

The following features are new (or have been significantly updated) since the last release:

*The "About" box finally displays version 1.0.
*Wireshark now supports custom columns.
*This release includes an experimental Mac OS X package.

New Protocol Support

*IEEE 802.15.4, Infiniband, Parallel Redundancy Protocol, RedBack Lawful Intercept, Xcsl

Updated Protocol Support

AFS, ALCAP, ATM, BACapp, CIGI, DCC (renamed from DCCP), DCCP (renamed from DCP), DCERPC SPOOLSS, DCERPC NT, DHCP, DirectPlay, EtherCAT, FIX, GIOP, GTP, H.248, HTTP, ICMPv6, ICQ, IPv6, ISIS, JXTA, NCP, P_Mul, PCAP, PKIX1Explicit, PTP, RADIUS, Roofnet, RTCP, RTMPT, RTP, RX, SABP, SCSI OSD, sFlow, SMPP, SNMP, SSCOP, TAPA, TIPC, TPNCP, UNISTIM, X.25, X.509sat, XML

New and Updated Capture File Support

Hilscher Analyzer "

http://www.wireshark.org/