Flash ActionScript 2.0
This is a simple guide on how to
integrate our high scores API
into a flash game using AS2. At this point we do not have an API for
AS3.
OVERVIEW
TheOnlyPoints
High Scores
API
allows you to submit scores as well as to
make your game play for points. Scores
reported by the statistics
API
will also show up in the high scores list.
High scores will be visible in many places
on OnlyPoints automatically, such as the
game page in chat and on the main
poage under 'Latest Score', so your game
does not have to display high scores,
reporting them is the most important part.
The high scores
API
is meant to provide a
simple
interface for submitting and retrieving high
scores, without having to set up statistics
on the server beforehand.
IMPLEMENTATION
STEP 1 First, you
will need to add a line of code that will
cause your game to connect to our servers.
It should be placed as early in the timeline
as possible, usually on the first frame. You
may copy and paste this code into your
FLA
or ActionScript:
_root.connection =
new LocalConnection();
STEP 2
After step 1, you will have two options:
Option 1: Charge player points to play the game in order to
record his\her score on the winners board. The best way to do this will
be when the player clicks the "Start Game" button. You may copy and
paste this code into your FLA
or ActionScript:
_root.flag = 1;//
Theflag=1means that the player is
playing your game for points. _root.connection.send("onlypoints", "playpoints");
Option 2: You may have two
buttons where one of them is for points, the other one can be for
practice where no points are charged. The start button that charges
points will have to use the code above. The "Practice Button" will use
the code below:
_root.flag = 0;
//Theflag=0
means that the player is playing your game for practice. No score is
recorded and no points are charged.
(Instead of having one one button for
practice and for points you may have an easyl mode for practice and a
hard/normal for points.)
STEP 3
After that, you can start submitting scores!
The submit function takes two
arguments, one is the score you wish to submit for the player and the
second is the flag. It is
recommended that you submit this score at the end of the game, but you
can submit whenever you like.
