--- name: game-hacking-techniques description: Classify game-cheat capabilities and their defensive implications across memory, injection, rendering, input, engines, kernels, DMA, and remote transports. Use for authorized threat modeling, not operational deployment. --- # Game-hacking techniques Map what an attacker observes or controls, the required capability, the trust boundary crossed, and where defenders have evidence or authority. ## Topic routing - [Capabilities and core techniques](references/capabilities-and-core-techniques.md) for privilege levels, manipulation, injection, and cheat categories. - [Rendering, memory, and input](references/rendering-memory-and-input.md) for overlays, access paths, driver communication, world-to-screen, and input. - [Platform and evasion](references/platform-and-evasion.md) for EFI, device identity, stack behavior, and anti-detection concepts. - [Engines and workflow](references/engines-and-workflow.md) for engine-specific surfaces and representative research workflows. - [Attack-surface map](references/attack-surface-map.md), [repository resources](references/repository-resources.md), and [repository map](references/repository-map.md) for evidence and source selection. Use the narrower engine, graphics, DMA, kernel, mobile, server, or supply-chain skill when one boundary dominates. Keep recommendations defensive and within the user's authorized scope. --- Source attribution: gmh5225 Original project: https://github.com/gmh5225/awesome-game-security/blob/82c2a543f093ec0067ffc5683e591f3a07a735fa/.claude/skills/game-hacking/SKILL.md License: MIT License information: https://opensource.org/license/mit Original upstream instructions; downloaded from Dave AI. ## Upstream license notice MIT License Copyright (c) 2022 gmh Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. # Dave AI resource metadata Creator / publisher: gmh5225 Original project: https://github.com/gmh5225/awesome-game-security/blob/82c2a543f093ec0067ffc5683e591f3a07a735fa/.claude/skills/game-hacking/SKILL.md Attribution basis: Recovered original package and original project license at a pinned revision Fields of work: Development & Engineering Roles: Game Developer, QA / Test Engineer, Security Engineer Specialties: Backend Tools: Awesome Game Security Country applicability: Country not specified Classification basis: Source catalog labels Instruction SHA-256: 94986bbf34a71641dc609e5920363e49c8a058778f5a35021e4c5ab45d76ba61 Metadata reviewed: 2026-10-27 This metadata supersedes earlier Dave AI catalog attribution. Original instruction and supporting files are preserved.