highscore

Secure Online Highscore Lists for Non-Web Games

I'm playing around with a native (non-web) single-player game I'm writing, and it occured to me that having a daily/weekly/all-time online highscore list (think Xbox Live Leaderboard) would make the game much more interesting, adding some (small) amount of community and competition. However, I'm afraid people would see such a feature as ...

iPhone High Scores Framework?

I remember reading about a high scores framework for the iphone a while back. You could embed it into your app for easy high score management. Anyone know what I'm talking about? ...

How to solve this complex recursive problem, pyramid point system

Hi, I'm trying to program a pyramid like score system for an ARG game and have come up with a problem. When users get into the game they start a new "pyramid" but if one start the game with a referer code from another player they become a child of this user and then kick points up the ladder. The issue here is not the point calculation...

Best Highscores Framework - iPhone

I am trying to decide between: OpenFeint - http://www.openfeint.com/developers Agon - http://developer.agon-online.com ScoreLoop - http://corporate.scoreloop.com/features All of the websites look clean. I don't know how many users they have but ScoreLoop has some recognizable games using the service. Have you tried any of these pl...

How to form an optimal query to get high scores from a data base?

Hi, I'm using a MySQL database to store scores for my game. A very simplified version of the table would be (PlayerID - int) (Name - string) (Score - int) I'd like to form a query that would return me a set of say 10 results where the player of interest is in the middle of the table. Perhaps an example would make it more clear. I h...

Fast Hamming distance scoring

There is a database with N fixed length strings. There is a query string of the same length. The problem is to fetch first k strings from the database that have the smallest Hamming distance to q. N is small (about 400), strings are long, fixed in length. Database doesn't change, so we can pre-compute indexes. Queries vary strongly, cac...

iPhone: Making a simple high score system using SQLite.

I want to make a simple highscore system for my game. No posting online, just storing your best scores on the device, maybe being able to share them on Twitter or something like that. My table is like this: CREATE TABLE highscores ( name VARCHAR(10), score INT ) and then I want to find an easy way to retrieve the name, score and orde...

Objective-C NSUserDefaults: HighScoreManager, why doesn't this work?

My app won't save the data or load the data, it just crashes, I wonder what I'm doing wrong in my High Score Manager class. I'm going to post my class's .h and .m file: .h #import <Foundation/Foundation.h> @interface Score : NSObject { NSString *name; NSNumber *score; } @property (assign, nonatomic) NSString *name; @property...

php flash highscore system for a games site

Hi, I am currently working on a php/flash/mysql based high score system for a games website. The main obejctive of this system is to submit the scores in the database using flash game. Whenever the user makes the score it will be reflected in the database. While in testing evironment when i submit the scores from flash file the scores a...

dispaying top 10 players and monthly top 10 players using php mysql

Hi, I am currently working for a highscore system for my games website. and i have written the code for that. it only displays 1- players. i want to display overall top players when i click on top players url and want to display the monthly top 10 players when i click on monthly top players url.How to do this. i am trying since 2 days. i...

how to get the position of sorted rows using mysql and php

I have a table which stores high-scores, along with player ids. I want to be able to extract a record by a players id, and then get the rank, or position of their score in the table. Means, Basically I want to be able to say "you are in Nth" position, purely based on the players score against all other scores. For Example: if i am at 46t...

OpenFient Leaderboard Custom UI iPhone

I am using OpenFient for an online leaderboard in my game, but how can I get the leader board data (say top ten)? then display it in my own custom UI? Rather than having to use the open feint screen? Thanks. ...

OpenFient LeaderBoard Data

Hi OpenFient give a sample of how I can get the high scores data using their API. They have a sample here: https://api.openfeint.com/api/games/116834/leaderboards/371803/highscores.xml If they were my games high scores, how would I put that into a table? Or displayable format in my game? Never done anything like this. ...