GooglePlay => Lua data conversion...

SinisterSoft

Adding loads of achievements and leaderboards to my new game and I couldn't find anything anywhere to convert the data to Lua, so....

I've just made a quick util to convert from GooglePlay achievement and Leaderboard data to something that is useful in Lua (along with an example of how to use the data).

http://sinistersoft.com/downloads/googleplay.zip

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SinisterSoft

Note that Google and Apple both (normally) have 100 leaderboard limits!

ar2rsawseen

Hmm, what exactly it converts? can't remember anything convertable there :-?

SinisterSoft

Google creates a key for each achievement and leaderboard - they will let you download the data - but there is no Lua version of the file - this makes a nice lua table that is easy to include in your game.

Download the zip - there are pdf instructions with an image.

ArtLeeApps

@SinisterSoft just curious to know, would you create a googleplay board for androids and use game centre for ios, or would you just use google play for both ?
Im thinking dedicated apple users wouldnt want to create a google account.

ar2rsawseen

@ArtLeeApps most probably you are right
You should mostly use GameCenter for IOS and additionally/optionally offer Google Play if you want

SinisterSoft

@ArtLeeApps - I thought I'd replied to this - but 3 comments were added - so I deleted two of them - now they are all gone!

Anyhow - I have both - I also try make them register facebook by adding +2 max lives if they do - I also get them to add google play by also adding +2 lives. They get nothing extra for turning on gamecenter - apart from gamecenter.

ArtLeeApps

@ar2rsawseen i suppose based on that, you could have a screen with both options to connect to.

@SinisterSoft good idea to tempt them into logging in. im guessing if they logged in as google and played/scored. then logged out and back into gamecenter thats still valid and they would register a score there when they played too.

Thanks for the info.

SinisterSoft

At the end of each level I send the scores to everything connected.