Working with games.

Denholm

Hello there,

I was wondering if anyone could help me out regarding a problem I'm encountering. I've been very successful in the past finding the <embed> tag and successfully copying the correct information and altering it for Flash films so that they play on my website running off of another website's server. I am trying to do the same with games from websites such as miniclip and shockwave.

The issue is I do not know what all I need to get the game onto my website and then successfully launch the game window so that the user can play. I've tried a few methods of copying the entire source code of the website and any data tags referring to a file on their server I placed, "http://www.websitename.com/" in front of it. This still didn't resolve my issue.

So if anyone could assist me in finding out how to place games on my website without having the user actually go to the website the game is located on. That would be great.

Thanks in advance, and let me know if you need a more detailed description of what I'm trying to do. I just about confused myself writing this question.

zabmilenko

You want help leeching?

Denholm

I don't consider it leeching if I'm giving all credit to the website and game creators. I'm making a central gathering point for the games. I however am not interested in re-directing users to other websites to play that game. To me it's like saying, "We have it all." And when someone asks me for something I claim I have. I respond saying, "Oh yeah, that thing. For that you need to travel to this location here and go here and there. Then you can get what you want."

mpb001

'I don't consider it leeching if I'm giving all credit to the website and game creators. I'm making a central gathering point for the games. I however am not interested in re-directing users to other websites to play that game. To me it's like saying, "We have it all." And when someone asks me for something I claim I have. I respond saying, "Oh yeah, that thing. For that you need to travel to this location here and go here and there. Then you can get what you want."'

For commercial projects the game is done to attract traffic, if you host the game you are effectively stealing traffic. Ask before you add them to avoid future problems and it is also polite.

It might sound over the top but if I paid $10,000 for a custom flash game and found you hosting it unauthorized I would cause problems.

trevorsg

They can easily have their server set up to deny requests for swf files that come from any other server but their own. You can use an <iframe>, I think

zabmilenko

trevorsg wrote:
They can easily have their server set up to deny requests for swf files that come from any other server but their own. You can use an <iframe>, I think

Useless. The referrer field can be spoofed just as easily as a cookie or URL string. Most don't even bother because it makes their server do more work than necessary.

The fact that my neighbor does not lock his car does not make it legal for me to drive it without permission.