Product > GameShield's Key FeaturesGameShield's Key Features
GameShield has a full array of simple licensing and activation methods to engage all gamers, and a full aresenal of protection tools to keep crackers at bay. Reduce your development team's workload, using GameShield. GameShield's DevKit is an easy-to-use development toolkit for providing developers and publishers with a flexible Digital Rights Management solution for wrapping and licensing their content.
Features included with GameShield are listed in the matrix below. Read more on a specific feature, in our Product section. For an overview of the licensing and activation methods available visit GameShield's Overview section.
To find out what operating systems and applications GameShield is compatible with review GameShield's Compatibility.
GameShield DevKit Features |
Protection & Encryption Tools |
| IronWrap Protection - GameShield’s sophisticated wrapper technology which includes a wide variety of innovative encryption and anti-cracking tools to protect application data and executables. IronWrap is compatible with Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac, Adobe Flash, and .NET applications. |
| ClientProtector (COM Component) - GameShield’s ClientProtector is the COM component (SDK) for developers to programmatically integrate core licensing and protection features into their software application. It can be combined with GameShield’s IronWrap for added protection and licensing options. |
License & Activation Tools |
| License Manager Application - GameShield’s License Manager is an application used to create, edit, compile and manage the licenses created with GameShield. These license models can be pre-configured or customized. |
| Licensing Project Wizard - GameShield’s Project Wizard guides users through GameShield’s features step-by-step, including creating a license file, Checkpoint License Server set up, IronWrap encryption and protection options, the UI Designer and selection of preconfigured license models. |
| CheckPoint License Server - GameShield’s CheckPoint License server is an automated activation server that provides authentication and activation functions for your software, including generating and activation of serial number keys.for generating and activating serial number keys. |
| Manual Activator - allows users to set up manual product activation functionality for enhanced customer support and to enhance product activation support. |
Testing Tools |
| FingerPrint Viewer Application - GameShield’s FingerPrint Viewer allows fingerprint flags to be analyzed and inspected in various environments, hardware configurations and operating systems. It can be used for debugging problems and optimizing fingerprints used for a wrapped product. |
| Client Protector Debugger |
Marketing Tools & User Interface |
| UI Designer - GameShield UI Designer provides an easy-to-use GUI, by providing HTML templates for standard trial and purchase screens as well as enhanced user-interface functionality to enable features such as integrated e-commerce, automated activation and serial number key injection, and dynamic, ongoing customer messaging that can all be incorporated into the software download. |
| In-Game Activation and Purchase - license model and ecommerce integration to increase trial conversions |
| Game Sharing (Viral Distribution) - license model to engage in viral distribution of games |
| DLC Upsell - license model to promote downloadable content and product post-sale |
Application Support |
| Microsoft Windows Applications - support of standard PE 32-bit Windows applications |
| Adobe Flash Applications - fully wrap Flash into a native Win32 Exe bundles |
| Microsoft .NET Applications - support .NET applications including .NET 4.0 |
| Apple Mac Applications - support of Mac applications (that run on 10.5+ Mac OS) |