Post by RKI3000 in What'd you struggle with in this game jam?

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This was my 5th jam. I wanted to take a break from unity, so I used scratch. I can say that I have a high level of knowledge of that game engine, so I had no struggles for most of the coding part. The art turned out way better than I expected. The only struggle I had was with THE LEADERBOARD. Doing an online leaderboard overall is pretty hard, but I just could not figure out how to put the largest (or in y game smallest) number on the top.

Overall, I think my game turned out all right. You can play it here: HERE

DrManatee3 years ago

wow, it's not many people I see use scratch, and even less that manage to get an online leaderboard up and working! I don't have much experience with scratch so I'm curious, how would you go about sharing data between games in scratch to make that leaderboard? I gotta check it out cause that seems cool

RKI30003 years ago

I use something called a "cloud variable", which stores all the scores on a public file. That's easy to set up (it works just like a regular variable) but the pain is pair it with the leaderboard. I use something called a list to make a leaderboard, and sadly there is no such thing as "cloud list". So pairing them up is complicated.

Noah Sakamaki3 years ago

I probably should make a leaderboard script and use that in game jams that allow pre-made scripts...

RKI30003 years ago

Smart :)

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