What are people using for leaderboards? It doesn't seem like there is much out there unless you want to get involved with Mochi or a service like that.
I was thinking about releasing a small, open source, leaderboard script in PHP. Totally flat file, no MySQL. Easily Accessible via POST and JSON.
Would people be interested in something like that?
Leaderboards?
How will you handle the fact that every single game out there (clones of other games notwithstanding) is going to want to store a totally different set of stats on its leaderboard?
Here's an existing one for research: https://github.com/a...mes/leaderboard
How will you handle that every game wants to store a different set of stats?What is a database API?
Don't be so quick to the gun ApochiPiQ.
Game Center does a fairly decent job of it. You basically have choices on whether your scores are integral or time-based, and the format for the integers and times, and a postfix string, one for singular and one for plural.
Then the choice to sort up or down (higher scores tend to be sorted high-first while times tend to be low-first) and a slew of other micro-properties that can come together to suit nearly any scoring system.
It would be worth the original poster's time to take a look at it.
I would say there is a demand for such a system, but after seeing how thorough Game Center is I would caution you that if you plan to make one you are in for a ride.
L. Spiro
Game Center does a fairly decent job of it. You basically have choices on whether your scores are integral or time-based, and the format for the integers and times, and a postfix string, one for singular and one for plural.
Then the choice to sort up or down (higher scores tend to be sorted high-first while times tend to be low-first) and a slew of other micro-properties that can come together to suit nearly any scoring system.
It would be worth the original poster's time to take a look at it.
I would say there is a demand for such a system, but after seeing how thorough Game Center is I would caution you that if you plan to make one you are in for a ride.
L. Spiro
Apparently I was misinterpreted. My apologies.
I'm not trying to suggest that the idea has no merit - far from it. I simply was curious how much thought the OP has put into the scope of the project.
I'm not trying to suggest that the idea has no merit - far from it. I simply was curious how much thought the OP has put into the scope of the project.
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How will you handle the fact that every single game out there (clones of other games notwithstanding) is going to want to store a totally different set of stats on its leaderboard?
The fact that it's open source and easily customizable. It would come prepackaged with like name/score, but anything else would require a bit of customization. Probably via a config file or admin area.
Don't be so quick to the gun ApochiPiQ.
Game Center does a fairly decent job of it. You basically have choices on whether your scores are integral or time-based, and the format for the integers and times, and a postfix string, one for singular and one for plural.
Then the choice to sort up or down (higher scores tend to be sorted high-first while times tend to be low-first) and a slew of other micro-properties that can come together to suit nearly any scoring system.
It would be worth the original poster's time to take a look at it.
I would say there is a demand for such a system, but after seeing how thorough Game Center is I would caution you that if you plan to make one you are in for a ride.
L. Spiro
Thanks, I see what you mean. I will have to take a long look at Game Center.
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Don't be so quick to the gun ApochiPiQ.
Game Center does a fairly decent job of it. You basically have choices on whether your scores are integral or time-based, and the format for the integers and times, and a postfix string, one for singular and one for plural.
Then the choice to sort up or down (higher scores tend to be sorted high-first while times tend to be low-first) and a slew of other micro-properties that can come together to suit nearly any scoring system.
It would be worth the original poster's time to take a look at it.
I would say there is a demand for such a system, but after seeing how thorough Game Center is I would caution you that if you plan to make one you are in for a ride.
L. Spiro
Thanks, I see what you mean. I will have to take a long look at Game Center.
Ah, so you're talking about providing a leaderboard kit that others could run for themselves, rather than a hosted service?
Sounds like a plan!
Sounds like a plan!
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Ah, so you're talking about providing a leaderboard kit that others could run for themselves, rather than a hosted service?
Sounds like a plan!
Exactly. Thanks.
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