How do I setup TOP Scores the Easiest Way?

Hi,

Happy New Year!

I have been researching for a while to try to understand how to setup in C2 TOP Scores (not local scores - scores that everyone can see) but information i stumble upon is either no longer working, is incomplete or is very complicated.

What is the EASIEST method to implement TOP Scores in C2 which will work for the long term? i.e. not using some website or plugin that might stop working after 1 year.

This is the best guide I have found so far and I can attempt to do this if there is no easier solution (I am not super technical person)

Creating your own Leaderboard / Highscores easy and free (PHP MySQL)

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/4839/c ... -php-mysql

Thanks in advance,

Happy 2018!

Yeah. PHP + MySQL is the easier, simpler, way of doing this. Go for it!

Hi brunopalermo

I was wondering if i used the scirra leaderboard api for my game on the arcade could i pull the information onto my website and put it into a live updating table ? How would i do this if its possible <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_question.gif" alt=":?:" title="Question">

https://www.scirra.com/arcade/api/default.aspx

There are third-party services that can be used to host leaderboards. (Don't ask me how they work though, I haven't tried any of them)

Here are a few links:

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1465/l ... rse-plugin

https://www.scirra.com/store/royalty-fr ... ebase-2609

plugin-firebase_t121776

plugin-firebase_t91232

There may be more examples in the Tutorials section, search for "leaderboard":

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/all

brunopalermo

OK thx

dop2000

the problem with 3rd party things is not if they work or not but if they will work after 1 year, 2 years or even 10 years

so if you are publishing your games let's say on your website you want to be sure they work always and not that you wake up after X months or X years and get a thousand of error emails and discover that your whole website is useless

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i'm just disappointed that such a critical game feature has no easy way of implementing without technical knowledge

i wish there was a module in C2 that you could add to have this which could simple be an additional file/database in your published game folder

DolyGamesCosmos

Firebase is a commercial product (with free plans available) owned by Google, so you can be fairly sure it will continue to work after X months or even years

LaurenceBedford

I don't know how to do it myself. And I find it much easier to create a simple leaderboard with php and MySQL, even though I haven't got a lot of tech knowledge.

DolyGamesCosmos

Like dop2000 said, it's unlikely Firebase will go offline before your game does.

Cheers!