Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Unity / SmartFox Senior Project Update

Starting early today in regards to programming.

I just finished implementing the high scores page and the server logic for getting the high scores as well as the player score.

This work went along smoothly. Server side, the code just required an extra request handler in the multihandler. Then I added a method to the DBService class. As a note, the DBService class is a utility class with static members. Personally, this is not how I usually go about utilities, but this is C# and Java land.

The client does all of the visual work. It requests the high scores and the current player's current score. It then renders this to the screen using the OnGUI event. Other than that, not much else is done, data is only ever received, not sent.

The impact of this is that it is the first step to giving players a drive to play. Giving a reason for the player to care about our game is the driving force to having a successful game. The goal of Starbound Aces is to offer an action packed competitive game. A scoring system is the first step in doing so.

I will be working on some effects stuff for the rest of the day and make a video to post on YouTube at my channel. When we have some models, I will also find someplace to put the Web player so that every body can enjoy a game or two.

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