Article: Cheating in Video Games

[Lazy Bastard]

Yesterday, I stumbled upon an article on cheating and hacking in video games, by Feross Aboukhadijeh, a computer science student at Stanford University. It was a fairly short piece of work, and didn't go into much detail, but I liked its portrayal of hacking as being positive unless it adversely affects the experience of other players (online hacking, etc).

I sent him an email to thank him for the article, which apparently reminded him that he'd forgotten to publish the finished version. It's now up on his blog, and it's a good read:

http://www.feross.org/cheating-in-video-games/

On a side note, his blog in general is cool, and the guy's a genius. He created Instant.fm, and co-created YouTube Instant, which won him fame, an article in just about every technical and computing magazine, site, and blog out there, and a job offer from the founder of YouTube. Drop by his blog and pay homage: http://Feross.org

[Hybrid]

nice article although he's using a genesis game genie in the pic with the caption
"Cheat devices such as this Game Genie cheat cartridge allow NES players to alter the state of the game world from what the game developers intended."

did you try the Kanomi code?

[Lazy Bastard]

No, but I did see his reference to it in the article. I don't quite know what he means by "try it on my blog", but perhaps it was a joke. Or, perhaps he's scripted something to perform some action when you add the code as a comment...who knows.

[Hybrid]

try it on his blog

[Lazy Bastard]

Heh, I see. Cool.