Web Based Gaming - please help

ricardinhoricardinho Member Posts: 36
edited November -1 in Working with GS (Mac)
Hey people...

Just a quick question..if i were to publish a game, for web use...would i be able to slap it on my site? If so...would it need to be played off the game salad player...Which im assuming, means you would need safari to play the game, correct?

Secondly...would a local leaderboard be possible? Basically have the scores saved to an online database on the site?

Regards
Ricardo

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  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    The player would need a mac and safari. Also, the games are far from secure. Publishing to the web is basically publishing your GameSalad project file.

    Also, the OPENURL behavior is not dynamic, so leaderboards are not yet possible.
    (They should probably let expressions work in that field. It could create lots of possibilities.)
  • ricardinhoricardinho Member Posts: 36
    wow...this is not good at all...its actually worse than I thought..
    I mean, leaderboards is still understandable..and not being able to upload the games to facebook etc....but having to force the user to game on safari is a real crappy one!
  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    Heh, that's why I started this... http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=19280

    The solution at the end is actually pretty good. It's something that we might be able to build as a community. Instead of waiting for the GameSalad team to code, maybe we could do the coding ourselves!
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    ricardinho said:
    wow...this is not good at all...its actually worse than I thought..
    I mean, leaderboards is still understandable..and not being able to upload the games to facebook etc....but having to force the user to game on safari is a real crappy one!

    the percentage of people who are actually targeting web games vs iOS games is miniscule. It'd be nice to have, but there are so many more important things for them to be focusing on.

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  • PhoticsPhotics Member Posts: 4,172
    jonmulcahy said:
    the percentage of people who are actually targeting web games vs iOS games is miniscule. It'd be nice to have, but there are so many more important things for them to be focusing on.

    While I do think there are more important things for the GameSalad team to work on, I think it's unusual that the OpenURL is static and not dynamic. In other words, why doesn't it export expressions?

    We'd be able to build our own Facebook support, our own leader boards. And then suddenly, that $499 a year subscription fee might not seem so bad.
  • ricardinhoricardinho Member Posts: 36
    Well said Photics...
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