14 DAY TRIAL // You can always count on Reddit to provide at least some way of cheating at your favorite game, and this vaunted community didn't fail when it comes to the highly popular Pokemon GO game.
Since every mobile game is nothing more than a glorified app, and we all know that mobile apps are among the easiest things to reverse-engineer, it didn't take long for developers to break down Pokemon Go's inner-workings and start revealing some of its secrets.
App hackers were drawn to Pokemon like a moth to a flame
Redditors didn't actually hack Niantic's servers, but simply reverse-engineered the HTTPS requests the app receives from the game's servers.
By constantly probing around with parameters in the server requests, some users discovered a way to reveal spawn points and use them to create maps of nearby Pokemon and other game items.
There are countless tutorials on the /r/PokemonGoDEV Reddit thread, most of them centered around Python scripts, the favorite language of reverse engineers around the globe.
Worldwide project to map all Pokemon around the world
There's this tutorial on how to create your own Google Map with all the nearby Pokemon, there are standalone Mac, Linux, and Windows desktop apps, CLI tools to harvest data about Pokemon spawn points, and at one point, there was a Web-based app, which was pulled down after Niantic sent a cease and desist letter.
At this point in time, every few hours, a new Reddit seems to appear with a new way to harvest Pokemon data and create your own map, which you can use to go around your city and collect only the high-value Pokemon.
There's even one ambitious project that aims to bring all "cheaters" together to create a worldwide map of all Pokemon currently available around the world.
Users should be wary of diving into and using these scripts, since Niantic, just like any other gaming company, won't be shy away from banning cheats, which these definitely are.
