Leaderboard

[Pawel]

Has anybody have any tips how to create Leaderboard for a game created with Playmaker?

[parallel]

You may want to be more specific; explain what you mean, for ppl to give meaningful feedback.

[Pawel]

What I mean is to have scores published somewhere, so players can check how well they are doing in comparison with others. Since I don't have this functionality in the game at all, I am wondering if anybody has any insights on what is the best approach. My game has 3 settings that would be great if they would get published somehere: time, score (points) & difficulty setting. All this is done in Playmaker, and the plugins I could buy are just some scripts that might be difficult to connect to Playmaker...

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 If you are publishing on the app store, maybe the gamecenter is what you need.

 Else, I would look on the asset store for such system. But I am not aware of any generic solution that is ported to playmaker ( I may be wrong here).

 I have heard about this one, but its for android only.

http://hutonggames.com/playmakerforum/index.php?topic=4404.0;topicseen

bye,

 Jean

[Pawel]

Thanks Jean,

I suppose I will have to research plugins on Unity website and see how I can pass the Playmaker driven scoring systems into those plugins...

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 passing data is one thing, finding the plugin will be the 'challenge', because depending on the platform, you may have to resort to a system that doesn't have any interface and everything will have to be designed ( unlike game center where the display is generated by apple).

bye,

 Jean

[Pawel]

Thanks Jean again. You just gave me an idea...

I will explore the Database route... (I already use SQLite version in the game.) I would need to set it up on my website and let the scores be posted when the app is connected...

If this works it wouldn't matter what platform the game is on...

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 Careful for web publishing and cross domain policies, that's all.

bye,

 Jean

[Pawel]

After more research I decided to use Amazon Game Circle. This looks like a very good solution, especially now when Amazon is giving developers advertising incentives for using Game Circle in their store.

Game circle has Leaderboard, Achivement and Cloud sinking built in. It also works with iOS in addition to Android.

I'll let you know how it goes...

[Pawel]

I just wanted to add that Amazon provides Unity plugin...

[jess84]

Leaderboards - not "Letterboards".

[Pawel]

Yes. Leaderboard... sorry.