Gridrunner Revolution OUT NOW }:-).

[korruptor]

Say have you ever done DB connections in WINDOWS ? And with what ? You need drivers to open a connection to a DB and
the drivers must also match the kind of DB server you are using.

Oh yeah, I've, "done DB connections in WINDOWS.", plenty of time. IIRC it was the job the juniors got when I started out.

[Portland]

Eh-heh, eh-heh, eh-heh

That's just the demo, waiting for code to arrive.

[koogy]

um, demo runs ok on my laptop (nvidia 7300Go, 1.8GHz (single core) athlon...) but only ok. am waiting on new laptop to buy the bundle...

the demo, though, is too short and too easy - it's very hard to die and makes the game feel just like eye candy, a trifle. i know people who loved SG just being turned off by this (it doesn't help that i think they've overlooked the two harder levels)

(i'd include some kind of salted checksum with those high score http packets or there's nothing to stop people spoofing them...)

[disciple]

Oh yeah, I've, "done DB connections in WINDOWS.", plenty of time.

You should put that on your CV.

[Harlequin]

I know what you mean, and I'm sure someone looking over your shoulder would be 'wtf', but ... it gets to a stage where you almost feel what's going on, as much as see what's going on. It is ... hypnotic almost,

My thoughts exactly. It becomes somehow 'instinctive', you know what to avoid and what to go for. Even though there's loads of things flying around, I know when I'm doing well and when I'm up shit creak yet, to a casual observer, it may look like I'm ALWAYS about to die any second!

Welcome to the Zone.

[PaulCunningham]

I just spent a little under 20 minutes on the scores thing, and in that time I wrote an app in Blitz that took a name, score and validation code and wrote it out thus:

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http://www.olpin.net/validatescores.php?name=IvorBiggun&score=123456789&code=abcde12345

then 5 mins for a php script to grab that and chuck it at a database.

Piece of piss, you could test the php just by echoing the values like this:

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<?php
$from_program="abcde12345";
$name = $_GET['name'];
$score = $_GET['score'];
$validation_code = $_GET['code'];

if($validation_code == $from_program){
	echo "\nName is $name <br>Score is $score<br>Code is $validation_code"; 	
}
?>

or actually write it into a DB with something like this:

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<?php

$host = "DBHostName";
$database = "DBname";
$username = "DBusername";
$password = "DBpassword";

$from_program="abcde12345";  // sample validation code, obv. would be generated in the game and actually validated here
$name = $_GET['name'];
$score = $_GET['score'];
$validation_code = $_GET['code'];

if($validation_code == $from_program){

    mysql_connect($host, $username, $password);
    @mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");

     if ($score > 0) {
	     $query="INSERT INTO buttonscores
		VALUES ('null', '$name', '$score', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)";
	     $result=mysql_query($query);
     }
}

?>

Honestly, that's just 20 mins pissing about over a cuppa on a sunday afternoon.
I really don't see what all the fuss is about!

You've just wasted 20 minutes It's gonna be hacked silly within 30 seconds.

[Mr_Loon]

I suppose you could hack the save file and write an app to upload to a fans server, but then the scores would be open to abuse/tampering, and not everyone would use the app...

Sounds good enough to me. As the powers that be have said no to an official implementation.

Any uber geeks out there think they could handle this?

Sorry for the cross post here (now locked) hadn't realised that the subject of online leaderboards was being discussed in the out now thread.

Though IMHO it's a subject worthy of its own thread.

[disciple]

I suppose you could hack the save file and write an app to upload to a fans server, but then the scores would be open to abuse/tampering, and not everyone would use the app...

We could treat it like the league, maybe require a Yakyak username/password to submit? Or even have it auto-post to the forum with screenshot and game version number somehow. Though that probably *is* getting a bit overly-complex! =/

[dhlennon]

Well between the two of us me and Kor own the rights to do this and SG on the Mac but given how stupidly hectic our work's got it's not looking likely to get done Both games run brilliantly under bootcamp on most macs tho

I can't recall being a deal for Gridrunner Rev, the deal was only for SG if I am not wrong.

No you are wrong, you got a fairly big cheque for it. Email sent

I'm not sure exactly who you are, or why you post endless critical comments, but if you have a business relationship with Llamasoft, a public forum isn't the place to discuss it.

I assume you're a professional, so how about acting like one instead of (IMHO) a cock.

[gravy]

I'm not sure exactly who you are, or why you post endless critical comments, but if you have a business relationship with Llamasoft, a public forum isn't the place to discuss it.

I'm the bloke who paid a not inconsiderable amount of money for the mac rights to SG and GRR which isn't super sekrit information. And any doubt about those rights have now been sorted out privately via email.

If you actually read the thread you'll see I'm responding to a discussion that probably would have been better started privately.

I assume you're a professional, so how about acting like one instead of (IMHO) a cock.

Yep, answering questions about the mac version is "being a cock". Sorry dad

[Axeman]

Excellent work J&G, really like Gridrunner Rev it's an awsome game which is great after a few tinnies and splifters. Nice soundtrack too.

[craigt]

You've just wasted 20 minutes It's gonna be hacked silly within 30 seconds.

I will have to agree here. There is a big difference between writing an online score table and writing an online score table which is secure. It's the type of thing that will be under pressure from people trying to spoof it and will require quite a bit of testing to make sure that it cannot be hacked easily. There are techniques and patterns that already handle this for you (such as SAML), but it can still take time to implement them properly.

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there was already a library out there which did this kind of this for you.

Anyway, this kind of thing really belongs in the Programming forum rather than here

[Harlequin]

I can't recall being a deal for Gridrunner Rev, the deal was only for SG if I am not wrong.

No you are wrong, you got a fairly big cheque for it. Email sent

I'm not sure exactly who you are [...]

http://llamasoft.co.uk/grr_gary.php

[HGFB]

I'm not sure exactly who you are, or why you post endless critical comments, but if you have a business relationship with Llamasoft, a public forum isn't the place to discuss it.

I assume you're a professional, so how about acting like one instead of (IMHO) a cock.

I've been here on YY since a few days after the beginning and this has to be the funniest post I've ever read.

[korruptor]

He still has that perm, as well.