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Originally Posted by Jonathan Drain
A lot of real-time strategy games work on rules that aren't explained in the manual or anywhere, but which are very useful for calculating the most effective strategy. Things like weapon damage, a unit's hit points, or hit/miss chances.
I have trouble spotting game logic in disassembly of the game, because it's usually a very small piece of code (e.g. checking a single integer once in the game loop) and I'm not used to assembly.
Are there any tricks to finding game rules in the game code?
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I don't think there's any trick to it. To me it all looks so generic until there's meaningful labels, so I tend to just plug away until it's obvious. It's like peeling away layers on an onion.