The following is a question for the folks at Clickteam (or anyone with knowledge of an existing object with the functionality I am looking for): Are there any plans to expand the capability of the Game Center Leaderboard Object to make it fully functional just like the iOS GKLeaderboard object? Specifically, to expand it's current functionality to include playerscope so that a specific group of players scores or a score from any player can be acquired.
Hey mehamm, I am able to create an extension but you didn't respond so perhaps you feel I quoted too much?
DistantJ -- I might be able to throw some dollars at it also.
I'd be interested in this too. But for the sake of simplicity and clarity, I think that this should be added into the current Game Center Leaderboard Object.
Yeah. I could add it to the current object but I'd need the source code for the object for it to be incorporated into the real thing. I also want to add the ability to display achievement dialogs automatically (and have already been able to make it do so by adding a bit of code to one of my games).
Just following up to see if there are any more thoughts on this.
Nothing concrete right now - trying to fit it into the programmers schedule or hire a person like DistantJ who can add it to the object.
I will have to get to together with DistantJ sometime and see how much that would cost and the details of his doing this.
Anything I can do to help out ClickTeam I am happy to do! I will try to quote very low.
Hey guys, I want to keep this topic alive. I've been looking at other IOS game programming software out there, none of which I would prefer to use over MMF2, and they all have fully functional Game Center objects for maintaining leaderboards. I believe that to offer this feature in a game is key to creating competition amongst players and can potentially generate additional revenue.
An additional expression "Get Score by Player ID" would be very useful, since we can get the Local Player ID and the Friend ID with expressions from the Game Center Connect object.
Just a bump for this topic. I am currently looking for a way to display a player's game center friends and their scores in a custom leaderboard and came across the lack of additional options in the Game Center object :(
Any news?
For anyone wondering, I managed to limit the scores the leaderboard was grabbing to Game Center friends only, by modifying the source of the CRunGameCenterConnect.m file in XCode.
Change the part in bold to FriendsOnly on line 339.Code:-(void)getScores:(NSString*)category timeScope:(int)timeScope range:(NSRange)range
{
GKLeaderboard* leaderboardRequest=[[GKLeaderboard alloc] init];
if (leaderboardRequest!=nil)
{
leaderboardRequest.playerScope=GKLeaderboardPlayerScopeGlobal;
switch(timeScope)
{
Edit - To clarify, the bold part in the code is the word "Global".