GameJolt

[watusimoto]

After waaaay too much work, I've got a Bitfighter page up at GameJolt.

http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/bitfighter/20546/

Check it out, generate some traffic, and be sure to give it a good rating.

Thanks!!

[Little_Apple]

Rated!

The installer has no file type, and as a result I could not run it...

Help this guy out?

[Skybax]

The Quick Play doesn't work either. It tries to load and then just says the game closed.

yeah it needs to be fixed.

I bet if you put BF on kongergate it would instantly get 1,000,000+ users........

cant rate yet must wait will edit this post once it is rated.

[Quartz]

Nice work wat

[Santiago ZAP]

Epic job
Hope this gets us some people

Looks good! By the way, folks: When writing reviews a good rule of thumb is to highlight some strong aspects of the game instead of just embellishing it as the "best game ever" (or something to that effect). We definitely don't want to come across as artificially boosting the ratings, and specialized reviews can appeal to niche gamers.

[Skybax]

I feel like you were staring at Fordcars there..

I feel like you were staring at Fordcars there..

Wha... LOOK OVER THERE! A QUARTER!

Haha, fordy's comment was fine, it just reminded me of what I wanted to say. One comment endlessly praising the game is not a problem at all. Just, we went through a similar ordeal with the Desura game reviews, and I was always slightly worried someone might brush off the game because it looked "too good to be true."

Hehe I updated my comment anyway

[Skybax]

Would it be possible to make the Bitfighter Achievements available as GameJolt trophies?

[watusimoto]

Probably it would -- they have an api that you can access via http calls. It might be possible to periodically scan the database and send achievement info to gamejolt.

http://gamejolt.com/api/doc/game/trophies/

I haven't studied the details, but it might turn out to be pretty easy.

[watusimoto]

Here, for example, is a little script that allows you to get the account info for me. It is a very quick hack in Perl, (and won't work, since I changed the secret key), but it shows how easy it is:

  Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

my $secret = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

my $url ="http://gamejolt.com/api/game/v1/users?game_id=20546&username=watusimoto"

my $sig = md5_hex($url, $secret);

$url .= "\&signature=$sig";

print $url,"\n";
print `curl -s \"$url\"`;

Running the above returns all my GameJolt user info.

Adding an achievement for a player is not much more complex. If we could synchronize the achievement ids between Bitfighter and GameJolt, it would be pretty easy to make this work.

[watusimoto]

To add an achievement to a user, replace the $url above with:

http://gamejolt.com/api/game/v1/trophies/add-achieved?game_id=20546&username=watusimoto&user_token=xxxxx&trophy_id=yyyyy

where xxxxx is my secret token (similar to a password), and yyyyy is the id of the achievement being awarded.

The only complexity is that we'd need to somehow collect a user's token; maybe there would be an easy way to hack that into phpbb or something. And you'd need the same username between GameJolt and Bitfighter.

[Skybax]

My GameJolt username is the same as my Bitfighter username

Maybe you could have the GameJolt Token be something in the .ini that players could fill out?
Else maybe something in the options menu..