[RESOLVED] OpenFeint - crap or no crap?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Seems OpenFeint is riddled with bugs. Even trying to build the landscape example that comes with Corona SDK makes the OF login menu appear 90 degrees tilted clockwise compared to landscape mode, this without having touched the code myself.

In our game, the same thing happens to the OF login window, and inside the leaderboard popup window, OF fails to find any leaderboards for our game, even when the leaderboard has been created and we can confirm that the game records and send off highscores to it when playing the game. Online inside the developer version of OF, I can access the leaderboard and confirm the highscores from the game.

It’s been a shitty week…and external crap like this with our projects is not helping…

So, I guess we’re not the only ones experiencing these bugs with OpenFeint. Did any of you manage to get an answer from OpenFeint when contacting them about the bugs? We didn’t, for unknown reasons we didn’t get a reply, when trying to send a second request there’s just an error message…seems like their website is also filled with bugs *sighs*

So…is OpenFeint just crap, should we drop the idea of having OF in our app and instead go for Game Centre? [import]uid: 72520 topic_id: 26183 reply_id: 326183[/import]

#2

For the OF login menu appearing tilted, please make a test case and file the bug report here: http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/bug-submission

That shouldn’t be happening.

As to whether or not to use GameCenter, personally If your app is iOS exclusive you will find the majority of users would prefer GameCenter (personal opinion) [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 26183 reply_id: 106082[/import]

#3

@ Danny : submitted a bug , didn’t help a bit as the reply I got was that everything worked, not able to reproduce the error. Still it shows up every single time we build and install to device. Both in our own game AND the OF landscape example that comes with Corona SDK. See images below, login screen ALWAYS appear tilted, then after login, the leaderboard popup appears correctly positioned/not tilted, as it should.

Error snapshot:

http://www.ironthrone.no/div/OF_login_error.jpg

Correctly displayed OF leaderboard, after login:

http://www.ironthrone.no/div/OF_leaderboard_correct.jpg

We finally got the games leaderboard to be detected now, so all that is left is to solve the nasty problem with the tilted OF login screen at the beginning of the game. [import]uid: 72520 topic_id: 26183 reply_id: 106983[/import]

#4

Ray this is very strange, i was the one who tested your bug report and could not reproduce it.

Do you have any device rotation code that your doing manually? I literally tried everything I could to get it to fail but couldn’t [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 26183 reply_id: 106987[/import]

#5

@ Danny : got somewhere I can send you the game project, or send a link to where you can download the game project from our website?
As a zipped file, it takes just less than 12Mb
build.settings:

– Supported values for orientation:
– portrait, portraitUpsideDown, landscapeLeft, landscapeRight

settings = {

orientation = {
default = “landscapeRight”,
supported = { “landscapeRight”, }
},

iphone = {
plist = {
UIStatusBarHidden = false,
UIPrerenderedIcon = true, – set to false for “shine” overlay
UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend = true,
CFBundleIconFile = “Icon.png”,
CFBundleIconFiles = {
“Icon.png” ,
“Icon@2x.png” ,
“Icon-72.png” ,
},
}
},

–[[ For Android:

androidPermissions = {
“android.permission.INTERNET”,
},
]]–
}

config.lua:

application =
{
content =
{
fps = 60, --lock to 60 fps scene update (do not modify milliseconds in main.lua timers)
width = 768,
height = 1024,
scale = “zoomEven”
}
} [import]uid: 72520 topic_id: 26183 reply_id: 106989[/import]

#6

Sure, send it to danny [at] anscamobile.com and il take a look for you [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 26183 reply_id: 106992[/import]

#7

will do, but weird thing is that it happens with the corona OF landscape example, and all we did with that was add our required OF info in order to make it work. Still the login menu appears tilted when opening “leaderboard”. [import]uid: 72520 topic_id: 26183 reply_id: 106993[/import]

#8

Managed to discover the reason why the OpenFeint login screen appears tilted on game launch today. The problem is definately corona related, indirectly.

The OpenFeint login menu appears tilted because of the “Corona SDK Trial” semitransparent window in the test driver versions. That is why you Danny did not spot the tilted screen on your Corona SDK, as you’re a subscriber to corona.

Just by chance, I managed to tap “OK” on that pop up window, before the OpenFeint window appeared, and when the OF window appeared, it was not tilted. I did several tests on both my ipad 2 and iphone 3gs to really confirm that the problem with the tilted screen was related to Corona itself.

I’ll consider this case closed, marking it as resolved, but you might want to make a mental note of this, if it should appear with anyone else trying to implement OF when not subscribed to Corona. [import]uid: 72520 topic_id: 26183 reply_id: 107639[/import]