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I mean, Javascript malware mainly targets browser’s vulnerabilities (exploits them), so unless Chrome has some major unpatched zero-day exploit not many people know about (very unlikely, as for one, Google actually keeps a good eye on the code security, and Chromium project is open-source, and Chrome is largely sharing the same code with Chromium, where contributors would immediately see some big exploit that could cause issues), there’s not much what it could do. Internet Explorer is no longer functional, Microsoft essentially killed it, and Edge is based on Chromium as well (so it’s pretty much another Chrome). I think I should be fine with the browser. But I get what you’re trying to say, better be safe than sorry, just for a good measure.

My guess is it mostly relates on AI art that’s forbidden. Surely, AI generated code shouldn’t be used ever, not without proper testing and tweaking. And if the code is largely based on what the AI suggests you, then yeah, that would also be against the rules. But in the end, using AI services for a little help should be okay. Like you should always have some basic understanding about the development process, you should read documentation for the tools you are using, the documentation for the programming language you are using, and understand the basics behind it, understand the basics of programming. But if you feel stuck and believe you tried everything you could think of, asking ChatGPT for a little nudge (if you describe your problem), should be somewhat okay.

I would count it. But I guess you’d have to wait for an official statement from the Game Jam mods.

I just imagined that! 🤣

Hello. I’ve seen couple of the games and I must say that I’m not really keen on downloading the games and trying them out on my own machine. For security reasons (and Thor himself said that he’s using a sandboxed machine to test the games), I don’t really trust the downloads.

I do have VMs I could use to run the games, but do I really want to risk it? What if it’s capable of breaching the virtual environment? I don’t have the necessary tools to analyze the EXE of the games and check where it is going, and I know that such tools can be found for free, but I’m lazy. Being lazy however doesn’t mean I’ll just take the risk and run potential malware.

As always it is with user uploads somewhere, you need to be careful, as malicious users will unevitably try to exploit the convention phishing for people eager to try the game out. That’s why I’m more than fine with trying it in the browser, where the Javascript doesn’t pose much of a risk in modern browsers, as modern browsers run sandboxed environment for each website, and the script doesn’t have access to other stuff. Unless there is some vulnerability inside Chrome (unlikely, as Chrome is using the same code base as Chromium, which is open-source, and community will immediately see some vulnerabilities and report them back to Google), the Javascript can’t do much that would potentially harm the visitor’s pc. It wasn’t a thing in the past as well, even tho some trojans did exist back in the early days of Internet (like the youareanidion (dot) org thing, which originally contained an Internet Explorer exploit - but it didn’t do anything else besides making the window jump and cloning the process when closed - basically just an annoyware that went away as soon as you rebooted). But an EXE is a full machine code, and machine code can be instructed to do harm straight from the source. Even if it’s a .NET EXE, it still can do harm. .NET is basically Microsoft’s equivalent of Java, and we know that Java code can do harm.

Updated, and I like it more. Now with every death, you start over with zero. My highest score I managed to make is 331. Cool game. Definitely some fun game for a quick warmup on stream for example.