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Hi,
I want to tak regarding social networks (like the Live that it's in the XBox).
As I know there are these:
AGON Online
OpenFeint
Plus+ (from ngmoco)
Scoreloop
For my incoming game GeoRain I'm using Scoreloop. This is a German based company, the product is fine for me and they offer good support.
Let's shared our thoughts .. I'll comment more later.
Scoreloop looks really good.. I'm going to take a closer look at it this weekend and if it enables multiplayer over the internet (if they provide the servers) I'm going for it :D
Hi!
I have just seen gameloop, and it looks good! I am waiting for them to send me the details for dowloading the sdk.
OpenFeint looks also great but their site does not provide enoght information...
Thats my oppinion:
AGON Online. It was the first platform I signed and after a wait more news .. I forgot this guys
pros: Can't say didn't tested
cons: they don't have challenges (or I didn't see this)
GeoCade
pros: easy to integrate, very quick in the replies
cons: they only have scoreboards, ugly interface
Plus+ & ngmoco
pros: some features seemed fine, actually they are the unique to offer push notifications for game
cons: only one game, did they care about devs far from them? I think no. Two mails send them (one months ago) and no reply
OpenFeint. Just signed yesterday to see what the offer, but I agreed that for a game/gamer it's better having challenges than chats
Scoreloop
pros: very good features, very quick in reply, they talk with you regarding new features. Challenges it's a must, very easy to integrate. The unique to offer actually the interface in english, german & spanish. You feel the relationship with them to be very close to you.
cons: scoring system it's only by levels (In my game i rather prefer by points, they will work this), no game modes (promised future work there)
I'm just putting out my opinion here. OpenFeint has a lot of force behind them, and while their current implementation in PocketGod is far from impressive (who wants to chat in game!?!?), they are rolling out all of the features of a good social gaming system in the next couple of weeks.
I'm currently working to add a lot more features to integrate with their latest beta, and they are going to be setting up microtransactions to allow me to charge a little more for the new community features. These will include challenges with push notifications, along with online achievements and leadboards.
To be honest, the feature set between many of the different frameworks seems similar, but the real power here is in the number of gamers who have a profile already created for a framework, and OpenFeint will soon been on millions of devices with new features that will engage players with one another. I've thrown in my vote :).
Scoreloop doens't charge nothing for using the service. Their business model is done with guys buying coins, and you as a dev will get 40% of this.
I see that challenging for nothing has not too much value. Coin system is a very good thing for all. And you win coins buying a Scoreloop enabled game, also wining a Challenge that it's the objective .. no?
I knew that Stickwars moved to OpenFeint and I was curious by the move that Eric done. Actually OpenFeint doesn't support challenges. When this will be available? And .. .what you earn doing a challenge? Tha chat thing in OpenFeint I think has no value at all, gaming doesn't need too much chats and less chatrooms with kids all the time saying hello.
OpenFeint stregths are the user base and the Cross Promotion. In the other side you as the developer, must pay for each user you got in your OpenFeint game. Do OpenFeimnt have banners? This eventually in pais games can suck users.
Scoreloop challenges are here and now since almost a month, and no need for OS 3.0 stuff, it works with firmware 2.1+
Wait a while to see more things in Scoreloop, for me this is a winner solution.
Blossomoo
Member
Hey everyone, I'm new here. I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello to the rest of the community here. My name is Gabriel Reiser and this is my first foray into iPhone and iPad development. I wrote a game engine for XNA called Reactor 3D but after the abysmal stats and sales figures from XBox 360 Indy Games I closed shop and moved to the dark side, iPhone and iPad development. I want to port my game from the 360 to the iPad and was looking for at least a decent game engine (I have NO experience with OpenGL, only DirectX, and no experience in Obj-C, only C++/C# and the like). I've spent the last few days learning objective-c (not too hard, though some naming conventions loose me). I want to tell the cocos2D guys BRAVO! Very well done engine you have here. I just have a few noobish concerns.
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