How do I make a high score system?

t.henstrand@gmail.com

Hi all,

I'm adding a high score system to my game, sort of a leaderboard. I know how to save attributes and all that, and I can save the High Score easily, but here is my issue:
How do I replace a the 2nd place score with the old high score?

Example:
I have scored 120 points on my first run, now the high score is 120. On my second run I score 130 points, now my high score is 130, but my 2nd place score will not reflect 120, the previous high score.

Does anyone know how to make a leaderboard?

Braydon_SFX

I think @uptimistik‌ made a demo for this. Or he used some that mechanic in Epic Linkage.

BBEnk

go to this thread and scroll down a bit you will see screen shots of my game and how I set up a high score system should help get you started.

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/62423/show-leaderboard-showing-no-items-in-adhoc-ios-7-should-show-the-leaderboard#latest

t.henstrand@gmail.com

Well I'm not sure what you're doing with the yahoo.com leaderboards, but I don't want to have it externally saved, I want it to be a simple top 5 scores. I don't want the user to have to leave my app to see scores.

EDIT: Never mind, you seem to be using game center leaderboards? I'm new to this type of thing. Any additional info would be appreciated.

tatiang

Let's say game.highScore1 is your top score and game.highScore5 is your lowest high score.

When game.score ≥ game.highScore1 change game.highScore1 to game.score Otherwise When game.score ≥ game.highScore2 change game.highScore2 to game.score Otherwise When game.score ≥ game.highScore3 change game.highScore3 to game.score Otherwise When game.score ≥ game.highScore4 change game.highScore4 to game.score Otherwise When game.score ≥ game.highScore5 change game.highScore5 to game.score

That will change the correct high score but it won't bump the other scores down. That would take quite a bit more coding. Personally, I'd use a table for this and just bump scores down a row to fit in the new row.

BBEnk

The example I sent you too would be the same just remove the yahoo.com thing which is actually Game Center leader boards and replace that with your saves.

t.henstrand@gmail.com

Tatiang, how would I go about using tables to do that? Right now I basically have done what you said, but scores need to be bumped down. I've looked into the game center thing, but even if I have game center enabled, I would want a basic leaderboard built into my game.

tatiang

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It's easiest done with the Release Candidate (http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/65354/release-candidate-0-11-0-1-is-available/p1) because of the ability to place table expressions on either side of a rule condition and the Loop over Table behavior, but without it, you would do something like this, assuming that row 1 holds the top score and row 5 the lowest in a 6 row table of integers:

When game.score ≥ tableCellValue(tableName,1,1) Change Table Value row:6 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,5,1) Change Table Value row:5 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,4,1) Change Table Value row:4 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,3,1) Change Table Value row:3 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,2,1) Change Table Value row:2 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,1,1) Change Table Value row:1 col:1 value:game.score Otherwise When game.score ≥ tableCellValue(tableName,2,1) Change Table Value row:6 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,5,1) Change Table Value row:5 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,4,1) Change Table Value row:4 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,3,1) Change Table Value row:3 col:1 value:tableCellValue(tableName,2,1) Change Table Value row:2 col:1 value:game.score
...and so on.