Concept for a MP I-Net based High-score feat. for plugins (games) (1 Viewer)

How do you rate the high-score idea?

  • Good addition to MP - I would use it personally

    Votes: 16 64.0%
  • Good addition to MP - Personally I have no use for it

    Votes: 6 24.0%
  • Undecided, don´t know

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Unnecessary

    Votes: 3 12.0%

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tomtom21000

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  • April 22, 2004
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    This is an idea for a new feature.
    It is not for the core but more on the edge.
    Nevertheless it might add another “unique selling position” to MP. Apart from that, it might be fun ;)

    The idea is to add a

    High-score feature with online support

    to mp which plugin devs could use.


    Here is the conceptional outline:

    Usage
    At the moment this could be of use for
    Tetris (points)
    Click Mania (points)
    Sudoku (difficulty-level, time)

    Features:
    I would propose the following features:

    High-Score lists:

    1) internal
    2) Monthly reset high-Score list of MP-Users
    3) All time high score list.

    // ad 2) a monthly reset is proposed to keep motivation high. Experience with some forums offering games show that soon some freeks establish some incredible high-scores where the ordinary player won´t have a chance to compete.

    Requirements:

    4) Program a high-score “class” and a couple of “methods”, so that the logic is reusable for any plugin developer. // hope “class” and “method” is the right terminology, I am no programmer.

    5) Possibility to enter name – for family internal differentiation

    6) Submission to high-score list with forum name/and or real name?

    7) Is a program on the server-side necessary to sort in new high-scores? Is it needed to clear the monthly high-score?

    8) Submitted data: date, name, high-score value1 (for example points) high-score value2 (for example difficulty level), high-score value3 (reserve)

    // is a format for the data necessary? For example can the same field be used for points like “8,134” or time “20:14”
    //which format should the sent data have (.txt/.xml/?)
    //option to submit no data (default?)

    9) Web-space for submitted data
    // security aspects to consider?
    //change to other location possible if necessary?
    // could mp-team offer this?
    // can a plug-in use the space or does it need approval or is work on the server necessary for first use?

    Extensions:

    Extend to recipes (rating of recipes, community database)


    Some of the above points may be nonsense, that is because I am no programmer and only have a vague impression what might be has to be considered.

    As always, feedback is appreciated.
    This might also be a task for a new programmer.

    tomtom
     

    mzemina

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  • February 23, 2005
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    I think this is an EXCELLENT feature suggestion! I think that MediaPortal games are so well suited for family games and it would be great fun for competition like this where (the new online games) the users can have global competition, maybe world up challenges. OK I am going over the top. But it sounds like fun! That should help with the WAF even more!
     

    LordMessi

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    I think this is an EXCELLENT feature suggestion! I think that MediaPortal games are so well suited for family games and it would be great fun for competition like this where (the new online games) the users can have global competition, maybe world up challenges. OK I am going over the top. But it sounds like fun! That should help with the WAF even more!

    The problem would be with ppl compiling a version themself - maybe they can cheat etc.
     

    mzemina

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  • February 23, 2005
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    The problem would be with ppl compiling a version themself - maybe they can cheat etc.


    But on te server side (where the data would be stored) we could block any high score that has a tag of LordMessi :oops:

    JK :p
     

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