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HIGHSCORE BOARDS BETA!!!
HOHOHO. HELLO GAMEBUILDER WORLD!
It is I, the Taco Loving Cecil again, and i come with another gift for you all!
Some of you may have caught on that we were doing something super secret and super special for the gamebuilder site.
This is some pretty big news so take a seat. Seriously sit down, i don't want you to hurt yourself.
For about the past week Myself, KetchupMaster, and Ricky have been hard at work coding, testing, and bugfixing a project that allows all of you as users, to create and use highscore boards in your games here on the site.
You'll notice a new tab in the main navigation called "Score Boards" and a link in your user nav called "My Score Boards".
In "My Score Boards" you will be able to create and edit up to 5 score boards for use in any game you choose to make. Now it is a very new feature and may still have lingering bugs we didnt find. It also has its limitations. Scores are numerical only, but can be ranked by low or high scores (golf anyone?).
If you find anything confusing about the whole system, or find any bugs please let Myself, KetchupMaster, or Ricky know so we can sort it out.
I hope to see many score boards up soon! Have fun!
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Neato!
Thanks a lot! Great new feature!
This is going to be a great way to bring people to this site! Awesome work, guys!
Wow, nice. I'm gonna use that for my new game and save bandwidth.
Hey I just found out about this website today and what an awesome post for me to see first! I've been using clickteam products for a long time but have never been able to have a real high score list for my games - I'm definitely going to stick around!
Excellent! Now Even anyone who doesn't have a domain name can make a scoreboard! A Survival Space remake is in order.
What do you think about adding a feature to MD5 the score?
I can see some people trying to submit bogus scores -- This always happens there are griefers everywhere.
but other then that!
Cool service!
I'm not sure what you mean Jeff. You can't submit a score to a scoreboard unless you have the board name and password.
Are you sending the boards name and password via Get?
It won't take a griefer long to sniff it out
In the old days I never sent the password via an object.
Only the app and the server knew it and used it to create an MD5 the server could check to make sure it was from the game.
I haven't looked at exactly what your doing so maybe this is not an issue!
Oh, I see what you mean now. We will look into doing that. We were using post but then there was a bug with post in the live receiver object that kept making the games crash, so we had to switch to get.
thanks jeff. this IS an issue. we WERE using livereciever to send it via post but we discovered a mmf crash with livereciever. so now we are forced to use the get object. km just explained to me how your idea works and i think its brilliant. will implement it asap. have work now though. should be good by tomorrow morning.
everyone planning on using the system or already working on a game should redownload the new template as soon as the changes are made, to see how it will work.
I've been messing around with the score boards, and I agree with Jeff that the sending of passwords should be more secure. I think that instead of sending the password itself, it should send an MD5 hash of the password (which can be created using an external program so that the actual password is not stored in the game file itself). Then on the server side, it would encrypt the stored password into an MD5 hash, then compare the hashes. If they match, all is well. I think that's what Jeff was suggesting and it looks like you're already working on it - awesome!
Thank you so much for offering these free score boards - keep up the good work!
Hopefully we can get all the objects you are using ... converted to other runtimes (you know the one I am thinking)
and this will really take off
so far its only the Get Object(java compatible), and the Vitalize object. I forget the name of the object that does md5 hashing but that should be the only 3 after md5 is implemented for the extra security.
ok implementing changes. anyone who has or is in the process of making a board will have to start over once im done. if you made a board you will have to update your boards' password, and download the modified template mfa. i will post here once its done.
Sweet, hopefully this will be the final change
it should be the only system altering change. anything else added should be minor improvements.
the changes are made. so be sure to redo your boards' passwords, and use the new template mfa.
o.k.
Excellent update on the score board system!