Game Hacking: Reverse engineering Dofus

Abstract

The world of video games has become a really powerful industry during the last decades. With the rise of the video game industry, other niche markets appeared related to video games. One of those markets is the in-game goods selling. In most cases these things are not obtained by humans especially when massively sold but obtained by bots, which are executed for 24 hours with multiple game instances to maximize benefits for the seller. This thesis applies partial reverse engineering to a game called Dofus and its launcher in order to implement a custom client for the game. The custom client will automatically make the functions of the game launcher, the login handshake and server selection without human intervention. Moreover, detailed information about the launcher and the game network protocol will be explained and documented.