quite cool, please add lap record instead of just total time record.
btw leting anyone use any name may cause problems... people may pretend to be someone else, not sure why...
why dont you grab their user name from itch io?
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Thanks! Adding lap records is a great idea, I would definitely take it into account for the next version. Also, I would like to improve the entire leaderboard, maybe showing more than just the first 10 places and, most importantly, storing the player inputs for each record. As it is now, I have no idea how some of the records were made and I would very much like to see. However, those improvements require changing the leaderboard storage system entirely so I don’t know when I’ll be able to make them.
As for the user names I understand it could be problematic to let people choose whichever names they want but I don’t expect many problems for a small game like this. Also, I don’t know how to grab their itch.io user name (and what happens if they aren’t logged in?).
as an fellow developer i also have no idea how to grab user name from itch, there might be an api for that, but i never looked at it.
i hope people arent cheating because some scores seem... impossible.
i remember that back in the days i used multimedia fusion i stored replays by grabing player X,Y position and direction (0 to 359) in an array, but i think grabing replay data might be a better idea.
also spliting the time records leaderboard between legacy build of the game an new builds in case something change or you think people are cheating.
(if the game change enough, it may make 0 sense to keep the record data unless the players can still play an legacy version of the game)