Another term for a high score table, a ranking system that displays how a player's performance compares against previous runs of the game. This is for questions about the the ranking system.
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Scoring and purchased hints?
Curious about how developers approach the use of purchased hints and scoring.
Context:
I have a puzzle app that allows users to incrementally reveal an optimal solution via purchased hints. They ...
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How to increase the score when two sprites intersect in cocos2d android
I have a sprite(image) when it collide with another score should be increament by 10, related code is given in the update method, but instead of this it increases randomly. here's my code.
public ...
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Sending high scores to a web server in an open source game
I've never dealt with sending/receiving data from web servers in my games, so I absolutely have no idea how to do this. I tried googling for a good solution but couldn't find anything satisfying.
I ...
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How can I prevent a buggy old version of my game from posting scores to the Gamecenter Leaderboards?
I found that an older version of my game has a bug that causes some crazy scores to be posted to the leaderboard. I can delete these scores by editing the acceptable range in iTunesConnect and my ...
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How to design rating (leaderboard)
I have a quiz online game. For each game there is a prize (number of scores). Now I have three ratings: top for the last day, top for the last week, total top (based on the sum of scores). Sum is not ...
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Ready to use leaderboard service. Is any? [closed]
I'm looking for ready to use thirdparty leaderboard service where player's achivementes and scores can be placed. I'd intagrate it into my game to allow players push scores and locate themselves in ...
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Bitmap Font Displays in Center Always Without Coding it Manually (Fix Coordinate Problem onText)
Is there a way on how to stay the texts in center without manually coding it or something, especially when making an update? I'm making a display for the highest score. Let's say that the score is 9. ...
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Calculating Hit Accuracy score in a game
I'm currently in the process of making a scoreboard for my game. One of things I would like to display is the players accuracy in the amount of hits they had in game. However, I have never done this ...
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Efficient existing rating system for multiplayer?
I would like to add a rating for online version of a board game. In this game there are many game rooms each normally having 3-4 people.
So I expect that player's rating adjustments (RA) should ...
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Online scoreboard in Python?
So my friend and I are working on an arcade-style game in Python and Pygame. We're beginning to look at the feasibility of an online leaderboard, given our current programming backgrounds. Such a ...
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Good leaderboard and achievements provider for android and ios? [closed]
I'm looking for a good leaderboard and achievements service provider. I wanted to use openfeint but it seems dead now and has been thrown away. Gree is the new system. Could anyone comment if this is ...
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should users be asked to submit high score to leaderboard?
If a user gets a new high score in a game, should they be asked before having their score submitted to the leaderboard? Originally I was just going to submit their score to the leaderboard without ...
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Implementing Online Leaderboards for indie windows PC Game
I've just finished my game and I'd like to add some ranking functionality to it. I have a mySQL database running on my website and want to be able to insert and retrieve data from it. My knowledge in ...
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How to compute highscores, so that 10 matches will “correctly” compete 100 matches
When computing highscores, it is possible to:
count sum of points (in every match),
count average of points (across all matches).
Sum is vulnerable to: multiple low-quality matches.
Average is ...
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Any social gaming services for JavaScript games?
I'm currently planning on building a HTML5/JavaScript game for the various platforms (Browser, iOS, Android, and WinMo7). I, obviously, would like there to be simple multiplayer (1v1, asynch), ...
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Score vs. Kills in a casual game
I am making a simple phone game and having a conceptual argument with my partner. The argument might end up being inconsequential, but I would like to hear some opinions from actual devs who are ...
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Mochi Media leaderboards with Facebook integrated?
I have been reading about Mochi Media, and I was checking the games leaderboards. Does someone knows how to achieve this kind of leaderboard?
Which is quite different than the default leadeboard ...
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Player Ranking System
Already posted this on another forum but I'll repost it here because I'm curious if this is a good forum for game-design questions.
I'm looking to design a player ranking system for my game. The ...
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Save game state information
I'm working on my first game, and are looking into the option to save a number of game state settings.
One of the things I want to save is the high scores, this will contain a list of the 10 players ...
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free web library for leaderboards / achievements
I would like to know if there is any free leaderboard libraries for web games developed in HTML5/JS (as openfeint is for iPhone, Android)
I found this http://www.appmobi.com/, but it seems the ...
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xml file save/read error (making a highscore system for XNA game)
i get an error after i write player name to the file for second or third time (An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.Xml.dll
Additional information: ...
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ELO algorithm for handling people who don't play often
I'm using the ELO algorithm to rank players in an ongoing pong competition. Most players play every day, but we've got one player who hasn't played in a month. My algorithm currently only tracks ...
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Should I scrap my own leader board and go for the Facebook built in one?
Currently I'm rolling my own score and leader board functionality in my FB canvas game.
In my game, users can see what score they have, in addition I have a public leader board where everybody can see ...
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How to evaluate a user against optimal performance?
I have trouble coming up with a system of assigning a rating to player's performance. Well, technically there is is a trivial rating system, but I don't like it because it would mean assigning ...
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What score/level function is often used?
In many games you raise a level when you reach a certain score, and later levels are harder to reach than in the beginning.
I am suspecting that it is some sort of exponential function that is used ...
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How can I let a player post their score to Facebook at the end of the game?
I have an HTML5 game on my site, and at the end, I want the user to have the option of posting their score to their Facebook wall. Is there an easy way to ask to post something to Facebook?
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Flash High Scores
I have a Flash game running on a Google Sites web page right now. My main goal is to eventually convert it to an Android app. For testing and for my friends to play though, I want to store high scores ...
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How can Highscores be more meaningful and engaging?
I'm developing a casual Android game in which the player's success can very easily be represented by a number (I'm not more specific because I'm interested in the topic in general).
Although I myself ...
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How to design a leaderboard?
This sounds like an easy thing but when I considering the following
Many players
Some have played many games and some just started
Different type of statistics
On what information should the ...
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Persisting high score table in flash game without a network. (Featuring: HttpListenerException)
this question is very programming-centric, but it's for a game so I figured I might as well post it here.
I'm doing polishing work on a GGJ '11 game because it will be shown at an indie arcade ...
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Online leaderboard systems for (small/indie) PC games? [closed]
Are there any free/affordable systems/libraries out there for adding online features to a small PC game? (most likely, for a small primarily-Windows-based indie game)
I'm not concerned about ...
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Online leaderboards for iPhone games [closed]
I'd like to add an online leaderboard to my iPhone game. Upon discovering the time and effort required to create a Game Center account I started considering other options.
What do you use for online ...
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How are you handling scores that can worsen (e.g. Elo rating) in Game Center?
Currently, Game Center leaderboard scores can only change one-way (e.g. increase). This makes it impossible (I think) to deal with Elo ratings and the like. How are you getting around this in your ...
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Integration my application with Facebook
So I recently developed this game which I would like to launch into Facebook but am having a hard time figuring out how on earth do I get the basics right. Like extracting user data i.e friends ...
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Integrating a leader board with FaceBook?
Think like how Bejeweled 2 does its Blitz mode where it connects to Facebook, pulls your friends names and their top scores for the week. Are there any libraries, etc. that already help facilitate ...
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How can I prevent cheating on global highscore tables?
For browser games and those on a mobile phones, it's common to have a global highscore table. It's also common for those tables to contain scores of 2,147,483,647 - where people have figured out the ...
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Where to start the coding of online leaderboards?
I NEVER, EVER did ANY sort of network code in C++, I don't know even the libraries that exist, but a popular demand for my game is online leaderboards...
So, what sort of libraries I should research ...
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How can I implement a global high score ladder?
Are there any existing frameworks I can build on? Should I build my own? How can I prevent fake scores from being posted to it?
