GameCircle now covers all Android devices!

SinisterSoft

GameCircle has been updated to work acrosss "all android devices"!

A plugin for GameCircle might be a good idea - it might even work on Ouya!

https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/gamecircle-intro.html

ar2rsawseen

Now I'm starting to think there is also a need for common LeaderBoard/Achievement interface for these kind of plugins

SinisterSoft

That might be a good idea.

jdbc

Whispersync service has been also improved:

"Your customers’ game data will automatically sync across devices—even if they play your game while temporarily offline—and you can concentrate on using the data instead of persisting it. You’re not locked in, though; you retain ownership and can always get a copy of the data you store."

john26

Any chance of integrating GameCircle in Gideros? Any plugin? Amazon is really pushing this hard, they will give free advertising to any games integrating GameCircle.

ar2rsawseen

Sure, unfortunately not till Christmas or probably New Year.

bml

If only I had GameCircle support, then I could be in the 'Developer Select' program.

I personally find it annoying that they require a leaderboard or achievement to be in in the program. I really like my own leaderboard and achievement solution so neither of these will make my game better. Just extra work.

Developer Select Benefits
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500k free impressions through our mobile ad network
Premium placement within the store
Coins rewards for customers who purchase your app or in-app item.
Credit towards AWS services

ar2rsawseen

Then I really, really, really need to start thinking on Gamification Interface, to cover Amazon, Heyzap, GooglePlay, GameCenter Leaderboard/Achievement apis.

The most complex problem here will be synchronization between the services if you are using multiple APIs. If for now I can leave that on your hands, I will try to whip something up

john26

It would be brilliant if you could sort this out! Thanks so much in advance :-)

SinisterSoft

GameCircle now works on iOS and Android...

https://developer.amazon.com/public/apis/engage/gamecircle/docs/how-does-gamecircle-work#What Devices and Platforms Does Amazon GameCircle Support?

ar2rsawseen

Yes I alreadys tarted creating Interface for it, but some other bugs got in the way

MobAmuse

Because of Amazon's hard push for developer select publishing I would also like to start adding GameCircle to my newer android apps too. Does this facility not exist in Gideros yet then as for some reason I thought it did? - I must of imagined it

unlying

@MobAmuse how much downloads do you have from Amazon?

SinisterSoft

@ar2rsawseen Yes, a tarted up beta would be nice in labs - me and Adrian ( @MobAmuse ) can help test it for you.

MobAmuse

I was making very good money (many thousands £) per month on Amazon before all this and now not so much is all I'm saying - need to get this sorted I reckon.

john26

Wow thousands £ per month! How did you achieve this? Are you saying Game Circle effected you because you don't have it?

MobAmuse

I have a lot of apps and yes I was making a lot of money when until they changed the submission process with GameCircle etc. I noticed the graph drop quite quickly as they appear to have shunted stuff around their store. At one point Amazon was my top store over iOS and Google combined! ...not any longer since Nov/Dec 2013 so something has changed and what it is is GameCircle and the promo that comes with it I guess. Need GameCircle plugin for Gideros basically now LOL

SinisterSoft

@aw2rsawseen will add this soon, I'm sure of it.

john26

@MobAmuse. May I ask which games you wrote? Do you have a website?

MobAmuse

Sure, everything I have ever done is here... http://www.mobileamusements.com ...scroll down for Android section tho they all link to Google Play I actually publish Android apps on all storefronts like Google, Amazon, NOOK, Samsung and others etc.

john26

Cool, will check it out! BTW I sent you a PM about a year ago... ;-)

MobAmuse

Er ah sorry I never saw it?

ar2rsawseen

http://giderosmobile.com/labs/gaming
Work in progress
Not completely tested and will be lots of changes, but since somebody was requesting so much, here is the initial version of Gaming interface, currently supporting leaderboards and achievements for:

• Gaming.new("heyzap")
• Gaming.new("googleplay")
• Gaming.new("gamecircle")

MobAmuse

OMG

SinisterSoft

It's like it's Christmas!

SinisterSoft

@ar2rsawseen: I can't find the heyzap full sdk anywhere (getting errors in GameHeyZap.java)- could you post a zip of a sample project containing the required jars?

I'm also getting errors in GameGoogleplay.java and GameHelper.java

No errors in Gamecircle.java - I included all the jars from the gamecircle sdk no problem => no errors.

EDIT:

Looks like the heyzap sdk is here:

http://d2jks9au6e6w94.cloudfront.net/sdk/heyzap-sdk-6.4.1.zip

(the link on heyzap always goes to the ads version)

The heyzap errors go away with this jar file (you can find it in the corona\libs folder, not the android folder (!!!!) in the zip)

SinisterSoft

After updating the google play libs I have one single error left, see attachment...

amaximov

@SinisterSoft I had the same error after updating. I changed the error line to:

sActivity.get().startActivityForResult(mHelper.getGamesClient().getTurnBasedSelectOpponentsIntent(minPlayers, maxPlayers), RC_SELECT_PLAYERS);

I don't know if getTurnBasedSelectOpponentsIntent does the same thing but it looks like getSelectPlayersIntent has been removed?

SinisterSoft

Thanks for the info. I'll change it too and see what @ar2rsawseen says in the morning.

ar2rsawseen

Wait, what?
There was no invitePlayers in Gaming interface version of Google Play

I'll prepare a separated updated version of Google Play today

But when gaming interface will be finished, probably there won't be a separate Google Play and Heyzap plugins

SinisterSoft

I think we need more clues as to what to do I think.

I tried loading a showing achievements and/or a leaderboard in heyzap (using the gaming interface, not the heyzap plugin) and the game crashed in the background after a couple of seconds, Heyzap did show me the stuff though.

Nothing happened at all with GooglePlay or GameCircle - no events or anything - do we have to login or something?