Leaderboards

[rezoner]

Any plans to support leaderboards?

[hokein]

I will take a look on this feature.

[patrickklug]

I don't think that leaderboards are a good fit for greenworks. Players can easily hack into any node-webkit based game and call greenworks API's manually, which makes cheating super easy. We don't see it as a problem for achievements since they only affect the person and if they really want to cheat to get them, so be it but with leaderboards it would affect other players and turn the entire leaderboard pointless.

My suggestion is to handle leaderboards by hosting your own server which can verify a score before it submits it to the steam API. I don't have much information about feasibility but I think client-side leaderboards submissions via greenworks would be pretty pointless.

[morgondag]

how is the cross-platform support for v8 snapshot?
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit/wiki/Protect-JavaScript-source-code-with-v8-snapshot

The "frontend" part could just be encrypted there together with cryptojs, at least its a layer, there will always be hacking going on, they deserve a challenge :-p

[Baccanno]

Well there will always be a hacking possibility, however it might be interesting to have this still IMHO. Leaderboards can be terribly addictive to players even if they are hackable (see super hexagon)

[MarxGames]

Maybe only support the Retrieving Leaderboard data parts then? Leave submitting for the server side.

[Baccanno]

Well I did it with server only for the Leaderboard part, I didn't really
get what you said at first, but then noticed there was an REST API for
leaderboards and so :) Indeed it's not that interesting as you said

2015-06-07 11:07 GMT+02:00 Margus Ojanurme notifications@github.com:

Maybe only support the Retrieving Leaderboard data parts then? Leave
submitting for the server side.

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[MarxGames]

I take back my request. Not required at the moment, since leaderboards are fundamentally flawed and Steam completely ignores their own documentation.

Taken from their documentation:
Writes - If this is set to Trusted, the leaderboard scores cannot be set by clients, and can only be set by via SetLeaderboardScore WebAPI. Defaults to false.

Does not matter if you set writes to trusted, everyone can still publish fake scores.

[agar3s]

Hi! I was checking another way to upload data to the leaderboard from steam, but there is no webApi available for that, and I'm not sure how to update this library to support that.
How do you suggest to submit scores to leaderboard?

[hokein]

@agar3s
Greenworks doesn't provide APIs to manage leaderboard, although Steam SDK does provide them.

You could find web APIs of leaderboard at https://lab.xpaw.me/steam_api_documentation.html#ISteamLeaderboards.

[agar3s]

Thanks @hokein!
It was very useful