[Q] Leaderboard highscores on googleplay bug or hack - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi folks,
First of all apology to Mods as this question is little off-topic and silly. Couldn't find the right place to post so posted over here.
I have seen on on Google play that for many famous games like flappy bird,fruit ninja,temple run etc. people who top the leader-board have ridiculous high scores..I am attaching a screenshot of flappy bird leaderboard as an example.
Ok,so I googled and found out that if I edit a certain .xml file for flappy bird then I can manipulate my score.I tried,say I modified it to 25500 and it worked.
BUT
the score shows as my local score i.e. that modified score is limited to my device.My score that I see on leader-board is 26 which is a legit score.
NOW my question is,
1) do these people some how gain access to Google servers,where high score for each individual is stored and modify it ?
2) OR modify some other game file to so that the score uploaded is the high score..
I doubt my 1st assumption is stupid but still,had it in my mind so had to ask it.
PS- I don't want to be on top of leader board but just had this curiosity to know cause I saw the same scenario on iOS's GameCenter too..

There's an app called gameguardian that does edit XML files too while running the game but to answer your question I have no idea.

DroneDoom said:
There's an app called gameguardian that does edit XML files too while running the game but to answer your question I have no idea.
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thanks for the reply mate.
I know about this app. What makes me curious is to know that how on earth do people manipulate scores that reside on some server.

I have seen the same thing in Google Play Games! I added one of them to my Google+ and asked how he did. He said, he will never tell the secret. Although I saw thousands of similar high score owners in Games Play Games.
No one is reveling how it is being done. I think they have contact with Google!
Until someone give us a clue, hacking Google Play Games Achievements and Leaderboards will remain a God level secret!

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Is it legal to make a game with the idea of existing game?

Hello friends,
I want to clone some android games depending on the idea or concept of already existing games with my code, graphics and without using their assets. something like a game trains you to improve your attention or memory.
Is it legal or not ??
Thanks in advance
eng.ahmed.android said:
Hello friends,
I want to clone some android games depending on the idea or concept of already existing games with my code, graphics and without using their assets. something like a game trains you to improve your attention or memory.
Is it legal or not ??
Thanks in advance
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That's a Good question.
Well, it's different country by country/game-by-game.
You see, there are sooo many Flappy Bird-Clones!
But you can maybe upload your modified APK on XDA-Developers, here they are very ready for Mods.
...example: Racing Games are very often (Asphalt 8 / GT2 / Real Racing / etc.) because it's something general.
But cloning UNIQUE ideas is more stricter.
Ask the original maker of the game, if he allows you to do that.
And don't forget to write in the credits:
Based on the idea of ...
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Hope this helped, have a nice day
Hannah Stern said:
That's a Good question.
Well, it's different country by country/game-by-game.
You see, there are sooo many Flappy Bird-Clones!
But you can maybe upload your modified APK on XDA-Developers, here they are very ready for Mods.
...example: Racing Games are very often (Asphalt 8 / GT2 / Real Racing / etc.) because it's something general.
But cloning UNIQUE ideas is more stricter.
Ask the original maker of the game, if he allows you to do that.
And don't forget to write in the credits:
Hope this helped, have a nice day
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Thanks for your reply friend :good:
Actually what i want to do, You may hear about lumosity website. It is a website to improve your skills like memory, attention, speed etc. They use some good games to achieve this goal. So i want to use some ideas of those games and make android games with it. So i don't know it is legal or no?! But these games i think they are not unique and they are simple games like change the railway to get the train to its right station or select some objects and memorize it so that don't select them again.. something like that
So i think it is legal to make some games with these ideas and i think it isn't patent at all

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goldDong said:
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Nice
Btw how u find game? and what is your favorite champion?
My is BOOM-BOOM so high dmg <3
prosingle said:
Nice
Btw how u find game? and what is your favorite champion?
My is BOOM-BOOM so high dmg <3
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A quick Google search using King of the Hill and your username (10 posts before being able to post links is a pain) brought me to it on the play store. It doesn't show up when searching the play store even with quotes around it.
Your artwork is excellent. Is it all created/drawn by yourself?
I'm actually trying to promote my own game Dot Dodger hence why i came across your thread. Not up to the same standards as yours but feel free to check it out and share with your friends - I'll do the same with yours (As you probably have discovered its near impossible to get games noticed on the Play store)
P.S Maximus is my favourite
goldDong said:
A quick Google search using King of the Hill and your username (10 posts before being able to post links is a pain) brought me to it on the play store. It doesn't show up when searching the play store even with quotes around it.
Your artwork is excellent. Is it all created/drawn by yourself?
I'm actually trying to promote my own game Dot Dodger hence why i came across your thread. Not up to the same standards as yours but feel free to check it out and share with your friends - I'll do the same with yours (As you probably have discovered its near impossible to get games noticed on the Play store)
P.S Maximus is my favourite
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Ofcourse i will play your game and show my friends, small developers should stick together.
Not my draws I'm just coder :C
Btw how is your promoting going?
prosingle said:
Ofcourse i will play your game and show my friends, small developers should stick together.
Not my draws I'm just coder :C
Btw how is your promoting going?
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Agreed.
What technology did you use to make the game? LibGDX or Unity etc?
Its not going great, very difficult to get natural traffic due to the big devs. Thinking about targeting the Windows store for a less saturated market and possibly more downloads. Putting the app on various android stores doesnt seem to make much of a difference and the Apple developer yearly subscription seems a bit extortionate to pay.
goldDong said:
Agreed.
What technology did you use to make the game? LibGDX or Unity etc?
Its not going great, very difficult to get natural traffic due to the big devs. Thinking about targeting the Windows store for a less saturated market and possibly more downloads. Putting the app on various android stores doesnt seem to make much of a difference and the Apple developer yearly subscription seems a bit extortionate to pay.
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I used unity. My too is not so fast but apple still review my game :C
Nowadays so hard to show your game for whole worlds.
Nice one! Hope you can put up links soon enough!
I have just launched my first game Toto Racer on playstore. Do have a look at it too! Hope xda lets me put up a post with links soon! Cheers to gaming

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