As I’m sure most of you have noticed I’ve just released my latest small title; Planetoids. But that’s not what this post is about. As a part of it’s development I have added a long wanted feature for StudioFortress: a highscore board!
You can now view the high scores of any game using a highscore board underneath the game, next to the embed form.
This is step towards making StudioFortress more complete as a gaming site and has clear benefits for users. Being able to record your scores, and to see the records of other users scores, encourages competition which in turn encourages people to play games more. There is a clear benefit from playing a second time because it might put you at the top of the highscore board.
The whole system has been built for re-use to allow multiple games so over the next few months I plan to revisit some of the previous games and add highscore boards to these as well. Space Snake and Pong Out are two that are especially score based, so a highscore board is almost a basic requirement for them.