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Leaderboard system that makes use of itchio's Log In and profiles?

A topic by V Master created Sep 04, 2020 Views: 631 Replies: 2
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Hello there!

I am currently making a demo for my upcoming game (Snack Tick) which will releasing on Steam later this month. However, during the Launch Weekend, I will allow players to play a Demo of a small section of the game and this will include a LeaderBoard. However, I have not yet implemented this Leaderboard system because it will be on itch.io, so is there any way I could use the player's Username and/or itch.io ID in order to store their scores for the Demo leader board?

For example, a user logs into itch.io, plays the demo, gets a score of 100, makes it to the top of the leader board, I could potentially send the person a digital prize afterwards.

So in order to reduce clutter, repeating names or cheating, I would like to use itch.io's log in information for this or something similar? Can it be done on itch.io with the current interface?

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Yes, there’s the server-side API with which you can get the profile ID of a user. The actual database, though, must be hosted by you; Itch doesn’t do that.

Thank you for letting me know, I'll look into it.

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