Definitive List of Online Leaderboard Services

joelghill

Hello all,

Since the release of my first game on the Android platform, I've been exploring the different back-end web services available to indie developers. My ultimate goal is to add online leaderboard support to my current game, as well as it's inevitable iOS release, and any future projects that I develop.

Before I integrate any of my work with these services though, I want to make sure I've evaluated everything that's out there to make sure I've chosen the service that is best for me. This is why I'm suggesting we pool our collective knowledge and create a definitive list of all available services, since I know that some of these are NOT easy to find through Google (at least for me anyway).

Here's a handful that I have tried, or at least considered, but I know I'm missing many:

GameMinion: http://gameminion.com/
Scoreoid: http://www.scoreoid.net/
ScoreLoop: http://www.scoreloop.com/

I'd just like to add that GameMinion and Scoreoid are really slick so far. They use a web based API, so all you need to do is use the UrlLoader class in Gideros to interact with their service (which I may have finally wrapped my head around this morning!).

Cheers!

Radiesel

Trying to figure out the same. Did you look at Gree?
https://developer.gree.net/en/

regards
Michael

Scouser

Gree is what used to be OpenFeint, which is/was one of the most popular cross platform services. I suppose that was why Gree bought them.

joelghill

GREE looks very cool! It looks like it could be difficult to integrate into Gideros. We'd need a plugin probably. A little above my programming skills at the moment!

Scouser

This is on my todo list. Just have to sort out other (personal) stuff first.

Radiesel

@Scouser, that sounds great. Are you going to share your plugin to everybody? Do you have any time estimate? Just figuring out if there's enough time to wait....

Thanks!!!
Michael

Scouser

Yes I will be sharing the plugin. No time estimates yet as there are more pressing items on my todo list.

joelghill

It's stuff like this that keeps me coming back to Gideros!

bysreg

i'm looking forward for gree too. anyone here has already got it working?

Radiesel

Obviously not, that's why we're looking forward for scousers plugin

Michael

Almog

Hi Everyone,
My name is Almog I'm the founder and one of the developers for Scoreoid I just saw this and wanted to add some information about Scoreoid.

First and most importantly as a game developer you should use what works best for you and your game. This is something that we're always saying and believe is very important.

Other then that not going to do a sales pitch if anyone needs help with anything open a support would be glad to help.

Thanks,
Almog