[Kongregate API] High Scores page 3 (locked)

Will you need both apis to get high scores and challenges?

Could someone show me how to add the High score API to a game?
I have the flash file on my computer (it’s a crappy game that I made) and I could send it to you via email, then you could send it back to me with the code. I’m not sure how to do this (I just got into flash programming) so that’s why I’m asking. If anyone is willing to help please reply here or send me and email to robby1886@gmail.com
:) thanxs

smigbob – The High Scores API is basically a simplified version of the statistics API, with the added ability of being able to request the high score list from your game. You do not need to implement both for challenges/badges.

Can you do a negative number? Say you have a pong game and want to HS the score difference between you and the computer. If the computer wins, that difference will be negative.

How do you make it so that once you get to a certain level,it submits the number of the level?

Hi there. Do the highscore if implemented (i’ve put _root.kongregateServices.connect(); & _root.kongregateScores.submit(myscorevar); in my code) works automaticly or do I have to wait for approval from the guys at kong? thanks and best wishes. mike :o)

They work automatically. Once someone has played the game and the server has received the information a high scores tab will automatically appear on your game. Let us know if that doesn’t happen, it means something has gone wrong somewhere.

Thanks for your reply emily. I’ve already sent the problem in. I can find nothing wrong in my implementation of the highscore-feature. I’ve also used the “poor variable” as mentioned in another topic. (_root.kongregateScores.submit(score) and I surely call the _root.kongregateServices.connect() on the first frame. Mike already has replied to my mail – telling one of the developers of the API what’s wrong…

meanwhile thanks a lot
Mike

Any news on the AS3 HighScore API? I have a game wainting for it.
cheers

Does anyone know how i could implement the APIs into a director game?

You can’t.

1200 Posts! Yay! Or is that a bad sign?

I have a question :

When I export my game under Flash 9.0 format with AS2,the API won’t work. Do I do something wrong?

(It works when exports to Flash 8.0 format.)

PS : I use Flash CS3.

can you have highscores be done so that that lowest score is #1?

You mean list them in reversed order? Just reverse the loop you use to display the scores, or the array itself.

ithis is my first game and im having trouble big time
i want my high score to record amount of time lasted

Follow the instructions and ask specific questions when you get stuck. Otherwise theres not much we can say..

ok wok i will break it up into bits with this bit i want to change it to time lasted _root.kongregateScores.submit(1000); // The user got a score of 1000
beacuse my game is an avoidance game

I’m not sure you’re explaining what the problem is. You should be able to do that just fine. What problem are you coming across when you try that?

ok, make it so the time lasted is a varible, and in the place of the 1000 put the varible.

ok thanx m8 what do i put where it says the user got a score of ..

Is there any way, using the current statistics and highscores APIs, that I could make a global points scored type thing? So, it would show the total number of games played/points scored, by everyone who has played the game? Or even, just so I could put in a list of users, without scores?

Once again: How do I make the highscores submit 1 on each frame, but once that frame’s 1 has been used up, it can’t be used again?




For example: If I’m on Frame 1, I go to Frame 2, I get +1 on my highscore, I go back to Frame 1, I go to Frame 2 again, but this time I don’t get the +1 on my highscore. In fact, I never get it again.

It seems to me that you should make separate variables, which add on to your main variable. Then add the total number of variables together. I’m an ActionScript noob, but that is how it should work, I would think. Don’t mind me! ;)

I would like to use the high score API and let Kongregate site display a top ten list of times to complete 5 circuits of a track. I cannot see any info on how I can get Kongregate high score board to display times in reverse order. I have read about how I can do this within my game itself.

Anyone?

You’ll need to use the statistics API, and set the type of statistic to “Min” on the Kong server.