Questions tagged [leaderboard]
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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)…

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How to display a leaderboard with google play game services?
I have a game set up and connected in the developer console. Login works, submitting scores to the leaderboard works as well.
Now I simply don't understand the instructions on displaying the leaderboard…

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Redis sorted set leader board ranking on same score
I'm using Redis sorted set to implement the leaderboard of my game, where I show the user ranking in descending order. I'm stuck in a case where two or more users have the same score. So in this case, I want the higher ranking of the user who gets…

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List all the leaderboards in Google play game services
In the documentation the code snippet to display leaderboard is
startActivityForResult(Games.Leaderboards.getLeaderboardIntent(getApiClient(), LEADERBOARD_ID), REQUEST_LEADERBOARD);
This goes into the given leaderboard with LEADERBOARD_ID
My game…

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How to increment player score in leaderboards on Android Google Play Service?
I read all documentation about leaderboards in Google Play Services and it seems that when I call the submitScore function of GameClient the service take account of the highest score submitted only. E.g.:
1st call:
gamesclient.submitScore( 100…

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Leaderboard status "Not Live"
I've developed a game for the Apple appstore. It's already reviewed and accepted by apple (pending my release)
.. but
As I try to enter the leaderboard in my game, it says "Game Center Unavailable. Player is not signed in". And as I check the status…

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Publish Android App with leaderboards and no achievements
I have got my leaderboards integrated into my android app, but don't plan on adding achievements. I have completed the Game Services setup in the Developer console on Google Play, all apart from the achievements. When I go to the Publish section it…

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Any way to programmatically reset leaderboards?
As I look into documentation of GKScore and GKLeaderboard, there is no way to reset scores reported by player to particular leaderboard in GameCenter. Am I right?
This seems quite inconsistent, since it is possible to reset…

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Saving the highscore for a game?
I have made a very simple game in python using pygame. The score is based on whatever level the player reached. I have the level as a variable called score. I want to display the top level at the start or end of the game.
I would be even more happy…

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How to retrieve a row's position within a DynamoDB global secondary index and the total?
I'm implementing a leaderboard which is backed up by DynamoDB, and their Global Secondary Index, as described in their developer guide, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GSI.html
But, two of the things that are very…

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Android Game API: Leaderboard - Get specific player score?
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I have a quick question that I cant find a specific solution.
The problem is that I have a Leaderboard using GooglePlay API.
What I want to do is actually get what is the player score for an individual and specific player.
For example I want…

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Django: How to create a leaderboard
Lets say I have around 1,000,000 users. I want to find out what position any given user is in, and which users are around him. A user can get a new achievement at any time, and if he could see his standing update, that would be wonderful.
Honestly,…

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iOS GameCenter leaderboard shows only my score in sandbox mode
I've created a leaderboard in the sandbox mode for my game. Then I tried to play the game using different gamecenter accounts. But I can see only the score for currently logged-in account. Is it correct? Or I have missed something? How can I fill up…

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sandbox leaderboard empty
I'm trying to make a Game Center leaderboard for my app. I've been following the steps from Apple and following the sample code from GKTapper, but I can't get any scores to show in Game Center. I've set up the leaderboard in iTunes Connect. Here's…

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Players only get their own scores from scores.list API
I have built a web-based game which submits players' scores to a leaderboard. The game also has a web page which shows the public scores from that leaderboard. It gets this data by hitting the scores.list API end-point. The leaderboard and game have…

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