Game Center support?

antikewl · September 15, 2011, 5:22am

I’m currently investigating Corona for use in a couple of projects, one of which I’d like to include Game Center support for.

I note that the Corona SDK supports Game Center as long as it goes through the Openfeint API. Are there any plans to support Game Center directly? I can’t seem to find it mentioned in the Road Map. The going-through-Openfeint method is rather old fashioned and adds a little extra complication for the user where there doesn’t need to be one.

I also downloaded the Float Free app to see how well it works. Not very well, it seems. While it added the game to my Game Center list and updated my achievements in Openfeint, they never appeared in my Game Center achievements list, and the leaderboard displayed nothing. Is this normal, or is that app known to be broken?

Cheers

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peach_pellen · September 16, 2011, 1:55am

I’ll have to get back to you on the OF/GC side of things but I can tell you that it works fine.

I haven’t played Float in ages and can’t recall whether or not I had issues, however I can tell you I have my own app using OF and GC and working perfectly for both leaderboards and achievements.

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antikewl · September 16, 2011, 10:01am

Ok, well that’s a little more reassuring. Are there any good examples of apps using Openfient/Game Center (where it actually works!)?

If you (or anyone!) knows whether real Game Center support is on the roadmap (however distant), I’d be really interested to know. Though, to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ansca is waiting until iOS 5 is out before doing more work on it.

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Stephen_Lewis · September 17, 2011, 12:16am

Hi Peach,

I’m having my own minor difficulties integrating O.F. with G.C. and would love to see your app in action as a working example. What is the name?

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peach_pellen · September 17, 2011, 2:37am

Hey to both of you

Shoot me an email, my name (no caps, no spaces) at gmail - will give you promo codes.

tm0, I can’t say for sure as it isn’t my department - I’m hoping to get more info on that but as I’m in a different timezone to all the tech geniuses over at Ansca HQ, it’s not that easy

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antikewl · September 19, 2011, 4:21am

Very kind, thanks.

I’d still love to know the official position on future Game Center support tho. [import]uid: 90222 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 56499[/import]

Omnigeek_Media · September 19, 2011, 8:59am

I was never able to get my game to talk to GC through OF. It would login to GC but it would never post scores or achievements.

I gave up and removed the GC support because I got no help from OF and there is no debugging you can put in place to find out what’s amiss.

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Danny · September 19, 2011, 9:25am

There will be future support for standalone Gamecenter support. [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 56526[/import]

jstrahan · September 19, 2011, 10:45am

hey danny not to hijack this thread but could you email me at [jstrahan73][@][gmail][.][com] [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 56538[/import]

antikewl · September 19, 2011, 2:13pm

Peach : Thanks for the code. And yes, it seems to work just fine… which is very reassuring!

Do you have to show that Openfeint screen on launch every time though?

Danny : That’s great news, but where does it fit into the current roadmap? [import]uid: 90222 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 56578[/import]

iolo724 · September 19, 2011, 2:40pm

I’ve implemented GC through OF and it works just fine.
However, as much I like having GC support through OF, not having to do that every time would be a nice and welcome change as there are plenty of people who don’t like seeing the huge OF login screen in the beginning of the game.
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antikewl · September 20, 2011, 5:57am

Oh, so you can’t turn that front screen off? Really?! You can’t login in the background after first auth? [import]uid: 90222 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 56666[/import]

iolo72 · September 20, 2011, 1:37pm

When running for the first time, the OF login screen will always show up (full screen). Once you log in, subsequent starts of the game will not show the login scree. [import]uid: 39031 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 56740[/import]

antikewl · September 20, 2011, 2:07pm

Ah. Yes, on first run I don’t mind so much. If that’s the case it’s less of a concern.

On the example app Peach sent me I get an Openfeint home screen on launch every time.

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iolo72 · September 20, 2011, 2:20pm

Sorry, I meant you won’t see the login window (no logging in necessary) but you will see the OF leaderboards, achievements, etc. screen every time, which is probably not what you wanted to hear.
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Falcon777 · October 13, 2011, 1:23am

Would love to see GC support soon… [import]uid: 70056 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 60775[/import]

gamecreme · November 8, 2011, 9:52pm

@Peach Pellen
Just send you an email regarding obtaining the source for GC support. [import]uid: 36507 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 66399[/import]

peach_pellen · November 8, 2011, 9:59pm

I can see that. I’m reading it now. [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 15144 reply_id: 66400[/import]

gamecreme · November 8, 2011, 10:19pm

Super thanks for the help from Peach Pellen.
Millions thanks of you taking the time to help me.
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