Help - Open Feint & Game Center

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#21

Hey, Peach, thank you for confirming that “disappearing/not-appearing board” is OpenFeint issue. I’ll wait to hear back from them. It’s good for anyone seeing this problem to contact OpenFeint directly, it sounds like.

Hey, Rob, thank you . I’ll follow up with OpenFeint and ask how to go about getting my game approved by them. I wonder if they have a process for approving games before it is submitted to app store.

Hey, @fava, thank you for posting your code. I totally appreciate it. I’ll give it a shot and see if I can get it to work the way I’d like.

Thanks again everyone for all your help.

Naomi

Edit: I just read that there will be some secret features that would be included with much-anticipated new stable release (expected in the next few days, I think) – and just in case the secret features include Game Center API, I’m going to hold off working on GC side of things. I’d be sooo thrilled if Game Center API is part of the secret features.
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#22

A lot of that stuff isn’t required, like different sized banner ads, but if you’ve setup up iTunes Connect, you should have most of the required information.

Though I think they make you upload an odd sized graphic. Why they can’t take the 512x512 and resize it blows my mind. I don’t want to create a special 125x125 for them…

Once you get approved your leaderboards should show up. [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 72228[/import]

#23

But is not bad using OF and GC all together, but i think we need more features in the gamecenter/openfeint API, like know live ranks or get it for our games [import]uid: 55808 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 72229[/import]

#24

A quick update on OpenFeint. I received a response from the OpenFeint support desk saying “This is a known bug that we are actively working on fixing.” So the disappearing (and/or not appearing at all of) leaderboards issue is a known bug on OpenFeint side, which they are working to fix.

Also note, I updated my iOS Settings at OpenFeint dashboard with temp info (like the shipping date) & temp graphics (like my game icon & screenshot), and submitted for approval – and it got rejected. Ugh.

Edit: OpenFeint got back to me, and here’s what I heard:

No, it is not necessary to enable your game to see the leaderboards.

You can try the suggestions here: http://support.openfeint.com/dev/why-are-my-achievements-andor-leaderboards-not-showing-up-on-the-dashboard/
but I suspect this is a server-side bug that our engineers have finally tracked down and hopefully will fix soon.

It’s good to know that game being approved isn’t required for the leaderboards to be working fully.

Cheers,
Naomi

P.S. It looks like GC wasn’t part of the secret feature for the latest stable build (#703)… Sad.

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#25

No not for 703 - but keep watching.

Glad OF got back to you and acknowledged a bug, I imagine this will be comforting to others with the same issue. (Although hopefully it is solved soon and no one has to worry about it any more.)

Peach :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 72586[/import]

#26

Hey, Peach, thank you. I’ll keep watching & waiting for a while… and keep my fingers crossed.

Naomi [import]uid: 67217 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 72608[/import]

#27

me too … [import]uid: 55808 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 72764[/import]

#28

Another quick update on the status of OF leaderboards (which refuse to show up from within the test user’s game/device). I had a followup note from OF support staff, and here’s what he says:

“My best guess is that this bug will be fixed by the end of next week. I hope sooner: engineering has found where it is, and has agreed to do a “hotfix” once they fix it, so it won’t have to wait for our regularly scheduled server update.”

Way to go, OpenFeint! I’m so glad they are on the ball and is so willing to take care of things like this.

Cheers,
Naomi [import]uid: 67217 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 72959[/import]

#29

Great to hear :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 73019[/import]

#30

Hey Naomi,

We have the same disappearing/non-appearing leaderboards. Has the leaderboard issue been fixed? Because we still have that problem. [import]uid: 111494 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 76908[/import]

#31

Hey, Appduction Studios, I just checked and confirmed that leaderboards appear properly now on my test devices. You might want to contact OF directly for support.

Naomi [import]uid: 67217 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 76917[/import]

#32

Hello Naomi,

Thanks a lot for the fast reply. I’ll try creating a new game on openfeint, maybe it has to do with the games being created after the fix was submitted.

Appduction Studios [import]uid: 111494 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 77007[/import]

#33

I see from above that you can go directly to the Game Center Leader Boards using this:

[lua] system.openURL( “gamecenter:leaderboards” ) [/lua]

Does that mean you can go to the Game Center Achievements section using this:

[lua] system.openURL( “gamecenter:achievements” ) [/lua]

I couldn’t find any documentation by Ansca on this… Really these types of things shouldn’t be “found” on the forums, they should be in the Corona documentation. [import]uid: 16734 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 77647[/import]

#34

Hey, Ken and @fava, I implemented GC with OF, and the system.openURL tip really helped (along with Ken’s step-by-step instruction on this post.) I’m using daily build 706.

Thanks!
Naomi

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#35

Good thing it didn’t take OpenFeint staff half a year to fix the bug once they acknowledged it was a bug and “found it”…oh wait…it’s been almost half a year now and the bug is still there!!

We’re experiencing the exact same bug with our game JungleRunner and it has kept my programmer busy for a few days trying to find out what is wrong, then trying to come up with solutions to the OF problem. Another thing is how the OF menu/login menu is tilted 90 degrees clockwise when the app launches. I built and tested the OF landscape example that came with Corona SDK and experience the same issue there as well, the OF login menu is tilted 90 degrees clockwise when I tap “Leaderboard”

Is this a new or known bug with OF? [import]uid: 72520 topic_id: 18674 reply_id: 105748[/import]