GameShield™

What is GameShield? Manage your game's distribution life-cycle

GameShield™ manages your game's distribution life-cycle. Whether you are deploying a single build of your game for both online and retail (brick-and-mortar) sales, or producing several versions with different licensing parameters and protection levels, GameShield™ provides you all the tools you need.

GameShield™ consists of several applications, tools, run-time components, and server components to help you best realize your business goals. Using GameShield™ you can set up Digital Rights Management the way you want to – applying premium protection, but still making it easy for your customers to purchase and play your game products.

GameShield™ License Management

GameShield™ has two key functions it will manage for your game products: license management, and protection. GameShield™’s software license system allows you to create, edit, compile, test, distribute, activate and support licensed software. License enforcement is the mechanism by which the GameShield™ components may enforce specific license terms between your company (more specifically your application) and your customers (the end-users). GameShield™ supports time-based and usage-based Digital Rights Management, and combinations of the two. These can include:

  • Time-based licenses: defined by minutes, hours, days or by a specified start/end date
  • Usage-based licenses: defined by number of executions
  • Feature-based* licenses: defined by pay-per-level, pay-per-item, micro-transactions
  • Customized* licenses: create your own license model
*these models are achieved by combining GameShield™'s SDK and IronWrap toolsets

GameShield™ Protection

GameShield™ protects your software with a variety of tools built to combat illegal cracking, tampering, and copying. One protection feature of GameShield™ is that it can be set up to check if the host machine is authorized to use the license every time your software starts (as well as checking that Activation Codes inputted are meant for the host machine). This "fingerprinting" ensures that even if a legitimate copy is unlocked and the entire hard drive is copied to another computer illegally - that the illegal copy would detect the attempt to use your license.

GameShield™ provides a variety of approaches to protect your product. The core approaches are:

IronWrapping

GameShield™'s IronWrap is our wrapper technology. It is both powerful and flexible. It requires no changes to your source code. You can choose pre-defined license models or create your own customized model.

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Combined Protection

GameShield™'s IronWrap and GameShield™'s SDK can be combined. IronWrapping your application and then accessing GameShield™'s SDK from inside your application will provide a highly integrated User Interface (UI).

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GameShield™ SDK

GameShield™'s SDK provides a DLL to deeply integrate into your game; like hooking directly into your games' User Interface for example. Or create a custom license model for your game.

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