So, I’m working on a game that will rely heavily on leader boards and I’ve been looking at some options.
My question to you is what is the preferred social platform for mobile games? The ones I have in mind is Apples Game Center, Facebook and Openfeint. Do I gain anything by using multiple platforms?
Thanks in advance
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I think for iOS doing Game Center is always a plus. Most people know what GC is.
Facebook though is where everyone is. If you’re going to do an app that is also on Android, Facebook would probably be the network of choice.
As for Openfeint. I’ve really not seen a lot of use when my apps used it. In fact when I was having some test my app, I got multiple responses like “I didn’t know what that OpenFeint thing was so I skipped it.”
OF gives us nice features like not having to build FB and Twitter into our own apps and it will intergrate with GC and it’s available on Android, so there are a lot of pluses. I just have concern about app owners being asked to login and provide all this info without knowing what it is.
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Thanks for the reply Rob. How does facebook intregation work? Doesn’t it require a lot of work with setting up a site for the game on facebook where as OF gives you the tools for leaderboards straight of the bat? [import]uid: 129450 topic_id: 24076 reply_id: 97294[/import]
OpenFeint was designed to make setup of gaming features like Leaderboards easy. Facebook is a general social network that has some gaming features added.
The tradeoff is more work for access to billions of people vs. easy to work with for less access.
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The good thing about Game Center is for the user, there is no setup. If the app has Game Center integration then my scores will be put on their.
With Openfeint and Facebook you are relying on the user to participate.
Dave [import]uid: 117617 topic_id: 24076 reply_id: 97531[/import]