How to use "Gaming" plugin?

antix · September 2018

try https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/

Apollo14 · September 2018

1) I've uploaded Gideros Player apk to GooglePlay console, released it as 'alpha'.
2) Enabled 'Google Drive' API in google dev console
3) Added my own email adress to the list of testers in 'Google Play Console -> App releases -> Internal track test'
First day I couldn't download my own alpha version from Google Play, as alpha tester.
Next day I was able to access it.

Guys how to show auth info during authorizing? (like on screenshot below, it isn't shown in my app, though authorization is successful)

How to access all user's info? (I've attached two screenshots)
When I authorize in my freshly exported app, it does not ask "access to your age and language data" (while it requires that permission when I authorize in @totebo 's NoBrakes.io)

print(googleplay:getPlayerName()) --it works
local playerAvatar=googleplay:getPlayerPicture() --it crushes app

How to get more info? User's age, country, etc?

SinisterSoft · September 2018

That may be in an update, I noticed the same issue, it was fixed, but that fix may be in the current internal test version - not in the actual release, I'm not sure.

SinisterSoft · September 2018

@Apollo14 I've pm'ed you.

Apollo14 · September 2018

Hey guys! There's one more arcanum to make 'Gaming' plugin work:
http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/comment/42515/#Comment_42515
We have to manually edit our app's ID in 'ids.xml' before apk export (otherwise apk won't authorize in Google Play)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Gideros\All Plugins\gaming\source\Android\res\values\ids.xml

Can we add Player's avatar to stage as bitmap?

playerAvatar=googleplay:getPlayerPicture()
print(playerAvatar)
--prints string "content://com.google.android.gms.games.background/images/28fc1e35/715"

hgy29 · September 2018

You don’t need to modify ids.xml by yourself in the template, and in fact you really shouldn’t do that since it will break plugin export. Export systems replaces the app id in there by the one you set up in gaming plugin configuration when you export your project.

For avatar, unfortunately gideros doesn’t know yet how to open ‘content’ URLs.

Apollo14 · September 2018

hgy29 said:
You don’t need to modify ids.xml by yourself in the template, and in fact you really shouldn’t do that since it will break plugin export. Export systems replaces the app id in there by the one you set up in gaming plugin configuration when you export your project.

For avatar, unfortunately gideros doesn’t know yet how to open ‘content’ URLs.

Great!
I guess I had this issue because I've exported Gideros player only (blank project).

SinisterSoft · September 2018

@Apollo14 I make a player in Gideros for each project with all it's specific plugins, etc - signed with the production key.

All you do is export the project as you would do for production, but just have the selector set to player.

I then copy it to a dropbox folder on my pc called 'players' and then on my phone or device I have dropbox installed, I go to the players folder and install the apk.

Apollo14 · September 2018

hgy29 said:
For avatar, unfortunately gideros doesn’t know yet how to open ‘content’ URLs.

Can we get user's gender? (is it male or female playing our game)

How to access user's information?

googleplay:getPlayerInfo()
googleplay:addEventListener(Event.PLAYER_INFORMATION_COMPLETE , function()
	print"Player info received"
end)

After this call some information is received, but what kind of information was received and how to access it? Is it saved to some table somewhere?

SinisterSoft · September 2018

@Apollo14 As privacy laws invade the 'gaming space' you will see less and less information being given, for example Amazon have closed all of their social gaming stuff, facebook give less information, etc. I wouldn't use anything other than the person's nickname/handle and their public avatar image - anything else will most likely be gone soon.

totebo · September 2018

Google Play tend to use the avatar images, which are not that personal, so maybe they have/will allow those to be pulled.

hismaimai2000 · September 2018

thanks everyone

oleg · June 2019

Is there a simple example for multiplayer games?
how to create a room and connect 2 players correctly?

gaming:autoMatch(2,2)
gaming:invitePlayers(1,1)

Apollo14 · June 2019

oleg said:
Is there a simple example for multiplayer games?
how to create a room and connect 2 players correctly?
gaming:autoMatch(2,2)
gaming:invitePlayers(1,1)

@oleg 'Gaming' plugin is not very reliable (at least for my nerve cells), but try it, if it doesn't work for you, probably you should use Photon (Photon is overcomplicated and not well documented, it'll take some time to figure out how things work there and make your game prototype).

Also, "IO" games usually have fake multiplayer with bots. You should tune auto-matching to match real players vs bots when there's lack of real humans.

require "gaming"
 
gp=Gaming.new("googleplay")
 
gp:login()
 
gp:addEventListener(Event.LOGIN_COMPLETE,function (e)
 
--gp:loadState(1)
--gp:logout()
print("LoggedIn")
gp:autoMatch(1,1)
--gp:showLeaderboard()
 
end)
 
gp:addEventListener(Event.LOGIN_ERROR, function(event)
	print("LOGIN ERROR:", event.error)
 
gp:addEventListener(Event.ROOM_CREATED,function (e)
	print("Room created:",e.roomId)
	gp:showWaitingRoom(1)
end)
 
gp:addEventListener(Event.ROOM_CONNECTED, function(event)
	print("roomConnected, room ID:"..event.roomId)
end)
 
gp:addEventListener(Event.GAME_STARTED, function()
	print("gameStarted")
end)
 
gp:addEventListener(Event.DATA_RECEIVED, function(event)
	printR("dataReceived: "..event.data.." from "..event.senderId)
end)
 
end)

oleg · June 2019

@Apollo14

ps. ---- Event.CONNECTED_TO_ROOM

oleg · June 2019

got it

Apollo14 · June 2019

oleg said:
got it

OK now try to figure out how to leave room after you played one session

(there's no api call 'Gaming:leaveRoom()')

oleg · June 2019

Apollo14 said:

OK now try to figure out how to leave room after you played one session (there's no api call 'Gaming:leaveRoom()')

gaming:logout()

oleg · June 2019

~~In this team, I have an error that I'm doing wrong?~~

gaming:loadPlayerCenteredScores("CgkIwqXCmPkEEAIQAQ",gaming.ALL_TIME,gaming.ALL_PLAYERS,25)

the command is outdated, I figured out ..

oleg · June 2019

@Apollo14

Apollo14 · June 2019

oleg said:
@Apollo14

But you will have to re-login to GooglePlay after command 'gaming:logout()'?

oleg · June 2019

Apollo14 said:

But you will have to re-login to GooglePlay after command 'gaming:logout()'?

To get out of the room you need to run: autoMatch (2,2)

I found that in the plugin there is a
leftRoom (me, roomId) command
but it's inactive in gideros,, we will have to try to complete the plugin

oleg · July 2019

what format time in leaderboard?

local my_time=((s/60+m)/60+h)/24
--local my_time=s+m*60+h*60*60
--local my_time="34:17:30"
gaming:reportScore(google_top.leaderboardEasy,my_time, true)

I tried different options, the time is not correctly displayed ..

oleg · July 2019

Time leaderboards present scores in hours / minutes / seconds / hundredths of a second format. You must submit scores as milliseconds, so 66032 would be interpreted as 1:06.03.https://developers.google.com/games/services/common/concepts/leaderboards

(1*60+06)*100+03= 6603 where did they take 66032 ???

did so:

local my_time=((m*60+s)*100+(ms*10))*10

now the time is showing correctly

oleg · July 2019

I can not understand how these teams work.

gaming:invitePlayers(1,8)  
gaming:showInvitations()

how to use them?

Apollo14 · July 2019

oleg said:
I can not understand how these teams work.
gaming:invitePlayers(1,8)  
gaming:showInvitations()
how to use them?

If I remember correctly, 'gaming:showInvitations()' opens Google's interface window, they see what's happening, who is connecting.

But you shouldn't show this window to them, because you will have to mix players with bots (even top publishers have bots in their "multiplayer" games).

Just call 'gaming:invitePlayers(1,8) and show your own custom loading window. If there's not enough human players, then start game with humans+bots.

oleg · July 2019

@Apollo14
I know what these commands mean
I do not know how to get them to work

gaming:showInvitations() -gaming: showInvitation () turns on the bluetooth and does not find the players

players only sees when I put-gaming: invitePlayers (1.1) -but not always and randomly ..

Apollo14 · July 2019

oleg said:
@Apollo14
I know what these commands mean
I do not know how to get them to work

gaming:showInvitations() -gaming: showInvitation () turns on the bluetooth and does not find the players

players only sees when I put-gaming: invitePlayers (1.1) -but not always and randomly ..

sorry, it was my mistake, actually "Gaming:showWaitingRoom()" is waiting room I was talking about

Then I don't know about gaming:showInvitations(), you should ask @hgy29

Apollo14 · July 2019

@oleg maybe you should just use

gaming:autoMatch(minPlayers, maxPlayers) --create a quick game between randomly selected players

P. S. there's better docs on Gaming api inside old plugin's folder: C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Gideros/All%20Plugins/googleplay/reference.html

googleplay:login() --login
googleplay:logout() --logout
googleplay:showSettings() --show settings screen
googleplay:showLeaderboard(leaderboardId) --show leaderboard screen
googleplay:reportScore(leaderboardId, score [,immediate]) --post score to service
googleplay:showAchievements() --show achievements screen
googleplay:reportAchievement(achId [, numSteps, immediate]) --achievement unlocked or progressed by specified amount of steps of total defined steps
googleplay:loadAchievements() --retrieve all defined achievemenets
googleplay:loadScores(leaderboardId [,timespan, participants, maxResults]) --retrieve all scores for specific leaderboard ina specific timespan for specific participans
googleplay:loadPlayerCenteredScores(leaderboardId [,timespan, participants, maxResults]) --retrieve all scores for specific leaderboard ina specific timespan for specific participans
googleplay:autoMatch(minPlayers, maxPlayers) --create a quick game between randomly selected players
googleplay:invitePlayers(minPlayers, maxPlayers) --allow user to invite players to a game
googleplay:joinRoom(invitationId) --joins the game you've been invited to
googleplay:showInvitations() --show screen for managing invitations
googleplay:showWaitingRoom(minPlayers) --show waiting room before the game with the list of players
googleplay:sendTo(playerId, data, isReliable) --send data to specific user by id
googleplay:sendToAll(data, isReliable) -- send to all users
googleplay:getPlayerName() --get your current user name
googleplay:getPlayerId() --get your current user id
googleplay:getPlayerScore() --dispatches PLAYER_SCORE_COMPLETE event
googleplay:getAllPlayers() --retrieve information (id and name) for all users involved in game
googleplay:loadState(key) --load app state from slot key from the cloud
googleplay:updateState(key, data[, immediate]) --update app state for slot key with data bool immediate if it needs to be saved immediately
googleplay:deleteState(key) --delete app state for slot key
googleplay:resolveState(key, version, data) --resolve state conflict for slot key with version and data
 
 
Properties
GooglePlay.UNLOCKED --achievement state unlocked
GooglePlay.REVEALED --achievement state available to user
GooglePlay.HIDDEN --achievement state unknown to user
GooglePlay.ALL_TIME --leaderboard timespan all time
GooglePlay.WEEK --leaderboard timespan week
GooglePlay.TODAY --leaderboard timespan today
GooglePlay.FRIENDS --leaderboard participants
GooglePlay.ALL_PLAYERS --leaderboard participants
 
 
Events
Game Events
Event.DATA_RECEIVED
event.sender
event.data
Event.GAME_STARTED
Event.REPORT_ACHIEVEMENT_COMPLETE
event.achievementId
Event.LOAD_ACHIEVEMENTS_COMPLETE
event.achievements
event.achievements[].id
event.achievements[].name
event.achievements[].description
event.achievements[].status
event.achievements[].currentSteps
event.achievements[].totalSteps
event.achievements[].lastUpdate
Event.REPORT_SCORE_COMPLETE
Event.LOAD_SCORES_COMPLETE
event.name
event.leaderboardId
event.scores
event.scores[].name
event.scores[].timestamp
event.scores[].formattedScore
event.scores[].score
event.scores[].rank
event.scores[].playerId
Event.PLAYER_SCORE_COMPLETE
event.rank
event.formattedScore
event.score
event.timestamp

SinisterSoft · July 2019

If you could update the docs in the Wiki with that information then that would be handy.

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