I'm looking for cross-platform social gaming platforms, essentially for high-scores and achievements but also for multi-player.
Basically I came across two solutions: - ScoreLoop (http://www.scoreloop.com): lots of features but is closed for new developers (temporarily?) - Casmul [url]: less features and looks a bit... amateur.
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Please note: Discussion for this thread has been shifted to the Developer category, since I realised it's more developer than gamer focused. Dear Developers and Friends, I'm Junde from Scoreloop and we're extremely pleased to announce the public release of our Scoreloop Core Social SDK for Android! (and iPhone) Along with the release comes an updated developer area to more easily configure game settings, and a new support forum/FAQ to assist with implementation. To download, just sign up at Scoreloop | Download At the same time we'd also like to announce the addition of the MySpace SDK, so that you can now enable your users to connect to their MySpace social graph. To reward the first developers to integrate this functionality, MySpace is offering 1M ad impressions on their Android/iPhone App to the best social integrations with the MySpace support by June 30th.
Our goal is to give game developers the tools and infrastructure they need to make better, more social games, in a fully customizable and modular way. With the public release of Core Social, every developer is now able to do just that.
Here's a brief list of some features you immediately have access to:
- Global Leaderboards
- Friend Finding
- Social Network Publishing (MySpace/Facebook)
- Social Discovery (Cross-Promotions / Friend Recommendations)
- Player Challenges
- Online Profiles
- In-Game Currencies
- Location Awareness
- Achievements (iPhone only, soon Android)
- Downloadable Content: Virtual Goods/Services (coming soon on Android)
With the Core Social SDK release, it comes with a default lightweight high scores board, where you can customise backgrounds and colours, as well as a more advanced and customised features version.Lightweight, very easily integrated High Scores board. (Colours and images customisable)Or a more advanced custom integration, with exciting gameplay challenges using coins. Screenshot from Toss It! and Jewels Do drop us a visit at www.Scoreloop.com. We look forward to playing your exciting Android games!
Just saw the WP7 launch event via live blogging from WPcentral, and they said that 3D games like ilo and milo (which is like super mario 64/galaxy) runs very smoothly. If these WP7 phones have the 1GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon processors, then the Nexus One, HTC Desire, etc which have the same processor can run games of this quality at at the same speed right?
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With the soon arriving Adobe Flash Player 10.1 coming out for 2.1 devices, Do you think the Android system will make a turn for the better supporting flash games and even AIR which will lead us to amazing places. Or do you think that with the low processor speed that Eris has that it will be a "meh" beneficial update that will help with certain webpage views but not full compatibility gaming.
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