New Addition To High Score Boards

Posted Wed, 03/10/2010 - 1:04pm by Cecil

We have decided to allow you to retrieve scores from your score boards and display them in-game!

A new template mfa has been added and can be downloaded from your "My Score Boards" Panel for immediate use!

In order to incentivize the continued use of the Gamebuilder public Score Boards you can only retrieve the top 10 scores. Please also include a button to the public board on the Gamebuilder site in your game as well (already included in template. just add your public board url in the specific event).

Also, the templates have been updated to be Java and Flash runtime compatible by using flash and java compatible extensions!
(Note: Java doesnt seem to be very friendly with our online boards. we're waiting on the string parser java version to be fixed, and vitalize to be added to java.)

ENJOY!

Comments

Jeff's picture
by Jeff - 03/10/2010 - 2:01pm

ACE!

Ricky's picture
by Ricky - 03/10/2010 - 2:08pm

Nice Job Cecil

StephenL's picture
by StephenL - 03/10/2010 - 2:33pm

"incentivive?" Big Smile

Great work!

OldManClayton's picture
by OldManClayton - 03/10/2010 - 6:08pm

Yaaay!

I'd use GB's scoreboards if I hadn't finally managed to get my own working!

Rannug's picture
by Rannug - 03/10/2010 - 6:16pm

Damn. For some reason, if I submit my score as "name" it works fine. Otherwise, it just has a problem =\

Cecil's picture
by Cecil - 03/10/2010 - 7:04pm

ok sorry. because the template was remade using a different extension for the md5 checksum, a few events were added, and they were only "run this event once" which wasnt allowing you to type a name and submit the score. the checksum was wrong when you changed the name because it wasnt being updated for the new name.

should be fine now. thanks for catching that.

if anyone finds any other bugs in the new templates please let me know so i can fix them and update the template download.

Cecil's picture
by Cecil - 03/10/2010 - 7:16pm

also. please dont tick the "allow gamebuilder to display board publicly" until you are done testing your board. boards for games that dont exist will be taken off the public display list. you can tick "allow gamebuilder to display board publicly" once your game is ready to be released to the world! Big Smile

you can test if scores are being added properly by going to the [scores] link next to the board in your "My Score Boards" panel. you can also delete test scores here, so your board isnt cluttered with your test submissions when you release your game.

ok i think thats all Big Smile have fun!

Rannug's picture
by Rannug - 03/10/2010 - 9:46pm

I thought it wouldn't allow me to access my board if it wasn't public. I'll change it.