Leaderboards

gizmo_thunder on 2012/03/27 07:27

If you ever wanted to integrate leaderboards functionality into your game and were constrained by time.. here is a free service (http://www.scoreoid.net/) which makes it easier.. i found this and have been using it through js and it works pretty well.. and best part is you can use it from python as well :)    

Do you guys plan to use any leaderboard functionality in your games?.. i think it helps make the games fun to come back and play again.. what do you think?   

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hidas on 2012/03/27 13:25:

It depends on what sort of game I make, but if the game could possibly benefit from leaderboards this looks like a great tool to implement them. I'll have to learn how to use it before Pyweek though.
It looks a little bit like the Kongregate leaderboards, which are very nice.

Chard on 2012/03/27 15:30:

Looks cool, we added leaderboards to Intestinvaders back in PyWeek 10 and creating the server and RPC stuff was a big hassle.

How many PyWeek entries have included leaderboards?

gizmo_thunder on 2012/03/28 10:08:

I generally had local leaderboards but never online thing. I have not seen many pyweek entries which use it im' guessing its' mostly because its' hard to do it in the one weeks time. 

john on 2012/03/30 06:27:

I added leader boards to my ld48 game a while back, I don't think it's hard to do so much as in pyweek you spend more time wanting to polish your actual game.