Game Center Support

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#1

I want to express my concern, as I’ve just looked at the “new roadmap” and do not see Game Center support listed. This gives me the impression that you guys (the ansca team) somehow have “checked this off your list” as a completed feature. Adding bare-bones support that relies on OpenFeint is a good start, but is far from acceptable. (I certainly used it though. Something is better than nothing.)

With that said, I know the last thing you guys need to see is another “Game Center” thread, so I’m going to spare everyone the rant on how important this is, but this needs to get done and is long overdue.

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#2

I would like to second on this feature request, underlying the importance of supporting the new TURN-BASED GAMING features of Game Center. Turn based gaming is becoming a huge trend in AppStore and we surely don’t want to be the last to implement it.

I don’t understand why Ansca insists on the strategy that every feature has to be crossplatform, otherwise it goes on the bottom of the priorities list. Hey, this is GAMECENTER that we are talking about! The FACEBOOK of the AppStore! Who gives a *** about NOOK and other experimental platforms? Most of us hardly care even about Android…

Please take GC seriously as soon as possible. We already have lost several months with this OpenFeinted-GC placebo.

Can we have an ETA for GC turn-based gaming please ?

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#3

Bump! Any ETA on Game Center specific support? [import]uid: 12448 topic_id: 11574 reply_id: 49906[/import]

#4

+1

I’d love to bypass OF completely.
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#5

+1. I’d prefer to only use GC opposed to both. [import]uid: 63320 topic_id: 11574 reply_id: 49959[/import]

#6

Good to hear :slight_smile: [import]uid: 12448 topic_id: 11574 reply_id: 50122[/import]

#7

+1

I use OF because of wanting GC. And OF adds a chunk of MB to my games, where every MB counts for a game below 20MB. [import]uid: 12979 topic_id: 11574 reply_id: 51187[/import]

#8

+1
Like blasterv said, maybe Game Center without going through Openfeint for a start?
GC is basic feature for iphone games in my opinion :slight_smile:
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#9

I can appreciate Ansca wanting to do what’s best to serve both iOS and Android developers. OpenFeint serves both platforms and we get Game Center for free. Their energy should be spent on other features that we are needing to make better games. Likewise, I’d love to have iAds instead of InMobi, but again, it doesn’t help the Android side of the house.

Right now bug fixes for tableView are more important to me.

but that said!!!

It IS important that we get direct access to Apple’s native programs for Game Center and iAds at some point.

I think iOS5 features trump that though and about 2/3 of the stuff on the roadmap.
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