Problems and Questions About Openfeint

Games
#1

Much to my excitement, I am just about finished with my first Corona built game. All of te gameplay mechanics are in place, and I even have a nice menu system working, so all that’s left besides a few bug fixes and working out soe glitches is Openfeint integration. My first question is, is Gamecenter automatically implemented through Openfeint, or is there something I have to do to add it in? Are there plans in the future for solely Gamecenter to be added?

My first problem I am having is quite a big one, but nothing anyone here can solve. I made an Openfeint account, but when I am trying to log in for the first time, it says my email is not valid. But when I ask for a password reset from that email, it sends me a new passwords, so it must be valid! I was just wondering what everyone thinks I should do. I want to release the game as soon as possible so I can get to work on my next idea, but I really can’t skip Openfeint, can I? I sent an email to Openfeint, but they haven’t replied after 2 days.

Thanks for any help.
AG [import]uid: 7116 topic_id: 12408 reply_id: 312408[/import]

#2

Is there something I could do to make my game worth buying without Openfeint or setting up servers and stuff for my own online leaderboards? [import]uid: 7116 topic_id: 12408 reply_id: 45292[/import]

#3

Try using a different email address and see. may be their email verification for the login screen is not accepting your email.

If you just want to implement a leader board you can implement your own. simplest way is to create a web page to save score and the username, this should be called when we want to save the score.
to display the leader board create a web page which can get the scores from database and send the result in XML. parse and display this XML in your code to display the leader board.

do some authorization or encryption on saving part, else your leader board will be messed with, if someone figures out what code you call to save the score. :slight_smile:
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#4

I had already tried making a second account and it did the same thing. For the leaderboard thing, do you know where I might find a tutorial to implement that? Thanks! [import]uid: 7116 topic_id: 12408 reply_id: 45317[/import]

#5

No, I don’t think you can find a tutorial on that.
may be I can give you an idea about what to do.
If I want to do it I will go as follow

  1. Create a Web Database(maybe mySQL) with 3 fields
    PlayerName Score deviceID ( getinfo deviceID )

  2. Create a PHP or .Net file takes data from URL string and save it to database

  3. call the page like "http://www.mysite.com/saveScore.php?name=player1&score=20000

  4. create a php page which will query data from the above database and return an XML file.
    return the top 5 players score and the requested players score

  5. parse the XML file and display the result

if you want more info on any of the above item feel free to ask me…

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#6

I really appreciate your help, but I’m not sure how to do any of that…

maybe I’ll just have a tweet your score button, because Openfeint doesn’t look like an option… [import]uid: 7116 topic_id: 12408 reply_id: 45357[/import]

#7

I really would like to do that for you and to post it in this forum as a sample code for others to make use of. But Am busy in the process of creating a game. let me see whether I can find some time to do it. :slight_smile: if so you can find it in the code exchange section of this forum… [import]uid: 71210 topic_id: 12408 reply_id: 45360[/import]

#8

Don’t worry about it :slight_smile: If you can find the time, I’d really appreciate and I’m sure other would as well, but don’t take too much time from creating your game to do it… Thanks :slight_smile: [import]uid: 7116 topic_id: 12408 reply_id: 45407[/import]