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Indie developer has a plan to keep parts of his game secret, even from data-miners (www.gamefile.news)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/gamedev
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[–] sus 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

at least it probably saves you from the worst fate: that nobody cares about the game enough to try to discover the things

(I'm fairly sure that datamining is not that common outside highly popular games, well assuming the data isn't neatly in plaintext)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Considering it’s being published and promoted by a huge YouTube video game channel it’d never be likely to stay under the radar.