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Hi Creators! Would you use an open source leaderboard service?

A topic by BeaverMode created 20 days ago Views: 217 Replies: 6
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Hi everyone!

I've been toying with the idea of building my own leaderboard service and putting it open source online. The idea being that other people could host it themselves if they wanted, or just connect to one that I host. I plan on using it for my own games, as every game that I created until now has needed a leaderboard so it seems useful for myself at least.

Nothing exists yet, I'm mostly just curious whether anyone would actually be interested in this before I sink a lot of time into it.

If you've put a leaderboard in a game before, or wanted one and didn't bother, what would you want it to do? I've got the obvious stuff in mind, submitting a score and showing a top 10, but I don't really know what people run into past that. Per-level boards? Weekly resets? Lower-is-better for time trials? Showing a player where they rank? Some way to deal with cheated scores?

Anyway, let me know what you think! Any opinion is appreciated! 🙂

Any game developers interested in this concept? If want a leaderboard in your game, what do you usually use?

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I made a mockup, this is how it could like like in a webpage, what do you guys think?  😁

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What are you selling here and where is the price tag? What are the service parameters? Ease of use if in the top 10 of things to consider when choosing such backend.

Hi thanks for the reply!

Nothing's for sale, did not mean it to come across that way! The idea is to make it open source so other devs can just take it, run it, and build on it, and hopefully improve it for everyone here.

You'd host it yourself, so the only cost is hosting, and that's free on plenty of the free tiers out there.

Totally agree on ease of use. If it's annoying to set up, nobody's going to bother. What usually puts you off using something like this?

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What I meant was there are other solutions like this. What would be the advantage of using yours? At first I thought you’d be hosting it. Sure, opening the source sounds reasonable, so you can get more feedback.

The main advantages I see that it's yours: no account, no free tier limits. Also since it's open source, if it doesn't do what you need, you or anyone else can add it and everyone gets it. As most creators on itch can program quite well, I think it can work.

That said, if you want a top 10 running in five minutes and don't care where the data lives, a hosted service is less hassle. It's a trade.

What have you been using for hosting leaderboards?