highscores

Ajax Highscores security

I'm creating a tower-defense game in javascript and want to have a high score and other multiplayer interactions. Probably have a couple of players start the game at the same time and tell them how fast the other guys are going and that kind of stuff. I don't know how flash games send their scores or events to make sure the information ...

How can I export score data from a Flash Game (still in development).

The game will be on a school VLE (virtual learning environment) like 'Moodle'. Can you export to email? Spreasheet? Or can it only be done with php? Do not want to be spending weeks on it! ...

What's the best why to do a local high scores board in my app?

Hello, I'm trying to make a local high scores board for my app, but with no success till now. I searched anywhere for a local high score board code but didn't found any. What is the best why to write such a thing? If you can please post example code. Thanks. ...

What is the best algorithm to calculate the most scored item?

I have an music items that are scored by users between 1 to 5, and I need a formula to get the 5 most scored items. But obviously an item that get 3.5 average score from 1000 different users will be more scored then an item thet get 4.9 average score from only 5 users... in other words I think that if an item get attention from people ...

Highscores list for facebook app

Hello i have a small app on facebook called typepractice (url) and im trying to do a highscore system. I store the score in a scores object and save its id and user id in users object, like this: // setting score $scoreID = $facebook->api_client->data_createObject("scores", array("score" => 100) ); $userID = $facebook->api_client->data_...

How can I add a localised high score board to my app?

Hello everyone, I'd like to code a high score board for my application, can anyone advise the best way to do it? #import "MathsTestViewController.h" @implementation MathsTestViewController @synthesize theQuestion; @synthesize theScore; @synthesize theLives; @synthesize answerOne; @synthesize answerTwo; @synthesize answerThree; @s...

Facebook High Scores Server

I want to merge my High Scores with facebook. In other words, I don't want to mantain my own score server but I would like to let make the dirt work to facebook. So I want to publish new scores and retrieve them to display in my game. Can I do it? What API can I use? Is it possible with REST? EDIT: Many games in fb show global scores ...

Post High Score and Retrieve Position

I'm not so savvy with MYSQL, so my apologies in advance is this is a dumb question. I've created a super basic PHP High Scores table. Upon inserting a new score into the DB Table, I'd like to retrieve the position of that score so that I can get 10 results with the persons score falling within that range. My INSERT Query looks somethin...

ScoreNinja causes java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare()

I'm trying to add ScoreNinja, the global high score system, to my Android game, and it works fine when I load it on my phone, but when I release it into the wild, I got crash reports saying: java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that has not called Looper.prepare() Here is part of the call stack: android.os.H...

Test if JavaScript has been modified

I have coded a basic game in JavaScript and am working on a high score system for it, however as it is coded in JavaScript we all know it is incredibly easy to open Firebug or Chrome's Dev tools and edit the code. For example adding a multiplier to the score. Does anyone know either A) a way to check the JavaScript hasn't been modified ...

Saving highscores coupled to a facebook account

I want to offer a "highscore" list for friends in my app (at this point iPhone/iPad), so that if the user connected to facebook, he will get a list with his/her friends scores. Connecting is easy, retrieving friends is easy, but figuring out the best way to store the scores is not. As it seems I need to the store the scores on my own s...

ScoreNinja titleText and subboard are not doing anything

I am using ScoreNinja (a high score manager) in my android game, and I want to use the subboard feature mentioned in the documentation. But when I do this: mScoreNinjaAdapter.show(score, "Test Title", "test_board"); It doesn't do anything differently. The title is still "Global High Scores" and it is still showing scores from the mai...

High scores table

I am looking to add a (local, not online) high scores table to my Android app and I wanted to get some insight on the best way to approach the problem. I have a list of users (right now being saved out to a file and read back in as an array of User objects), and the high scores need to reference this data to populate the table with the ...

Saving High Score Data

I am extreamly new to programming. I am writing a simple game which gives you a score everytime you run the game. I am trying to figure out how to save the scores and recall them to a high score page. I am trying to figure out if saving to a dictionary is the best way, or using an array, or what. Plus, how does the dictionary handle ...

How to get high scores from OpenFeint?

Hi In their support OpenFeint give you this, but I don't quite understand. How can I get the leaderboard data, say top 10 and show it in my own UI? Original link: http://www.openfeint.com/ofdeveloper/index.php/kb/article/000028 [OFHighScoreService getPage:1 forLeaderboard:@"leaderboard_id_string" friendsOnly:NO silently:YES onSuccess:...

sending php session variables to flash..

hi all, i am currently working on highscore system with php,mysql and flash. everything is done except a few things. i am struck at sending registered users and and guest users to the flash file. since 2 days im working but no luck. actually what my problem is in my highscore system i have provided the score submission to both registered...

Storing online high scores in open-source games

I'm wondering how this is typically done at a high level. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand, normally you could have some sort of validation. But if you have access to the source code, anyone could see how to send data to the server (or make your own server for that reason). Is there a viable solution for this? ...

How do you integrate cocoslive into a cocos2d game?

Hello, I have searched online for how to do this but I don't understand. The only thing that I find is people telling each other to look at the example that came with cocos2d. What example is that? Where is it located? All I can find are class files. And I do not know how to link UIKit and Cocos2d together which makes it even harde...