Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our leaderboards service for MochiAds publishers. This is the long-awaited release which complements the developer leaderboards we announced in January.
Publishers can use the new leaderboards service to keep their users engaged by adding game high scores directly to their site. The high scores from leaderboard-enabled games can be easily displayed directly in your websites. This can be implemented in two different ways, the Integrated Leaderboards feature and the Leaderboards Widget.
The power of this integration is that now you can create customized leaderboards that show high scores for your users, competing against all other users in your community. High scores and competition encourage users to keep comin’ back and playing games on your site!
Integrated Leaderboards
This is the most versatile method available for publishers. The Integrated Leaderboards feature allows publishers to receive high score information from MochiAds games played on their site, and seamlessly incorporate the game score information into their website however they’d like. It also optionally allows publishers to provide the game with their visitor’s registered username to automatically populate the leaderboards.
On a high level, you can use the Integrated Leaderboards feature by embedding a SWF hosted by MochiAds onto the same page as any game that will make use of it. The embedded SWF acts as a secure connection for communication between the publisher site, MochiAds and the game. Optional parameters can allow a you to set a gateway URL to receive and store player scores, to be displayed however you’d like. Get the SWF on the Settings tab of your Publisher Dashboard and refer to the documentation to find out more.
Example of the Integrated Leaderboards in use
Cyworld US uses the Integrated Leaderboards to tie each user’s account to leaderboard-enabled games that are played on their site. When users reach the Games page, they are immediately presented with recent gamers and their scores.
Cyworld also uses the data that it gathers from Integrated leaderboards in two other locations on their site.
Notice to the example leaderboard to the left. At the bottom of each game play screen, Cyworld displays this leaderboard directly on their page with the two tabs. There is a “Top 10″ leaderboard which shows by default the top 10 scores of all other Cyworld users, and also a “friends” tab which shows the scores for you versus your friends list. Clicking on any username takes you directly to their Cyworld profile page.
In addition Cyworld places game scores directly onto each user’s profile page. If you visit a Cyworld user’s page, you might see a recent game that they played, along with their score and a button to play the game.
Click here for the full documentation of Integrated Leaderboards.
Leaderboards Widget
The Leaderboards Widget feature allows you to display high score information directly on your website by embedding a SWF, which can be customized through the embed parameters to match the look and feel of your site. This feature is the easiest to implement, but does not provide as much flexibility as Integrated Leaderboards. The SWF accepts a game slug and optional publisher ID to display all the available leaderboards for the game. If you choose to set the publisher ID, the displayed scores in the leaderboard will be filtered to show only scores from games played on your site. If you choose to leave it blank, global high scores will be displayed in the widget.
To get started right away with the Leaderboards Widget, proceed directly to any leaderboard-enabled game in MochiAds, and select the ‘Embed Code’ link under the Leaderboards Widget title. It will expand and give you text boxes to copy to embed code for the Leaderboards Widget. Games that are not leaderboard-enabled will not show up with this text option.
In the second textbox, select the Leaderboards Widget Code. Pasting this embed code on your site will display the Leaderboard Widget for this game. Note that this embed code includes your partnerID. Clearing the partnerID field will show global scores. See an example of the game Ryokan’s Leaderboards Widget below.
Click here for the full documentation of the Leaderboards Widget
This is an early product for us and we’re continuing to work on improving this and all the rest of our features. Please send us your thoughts in the comments below — we love to hear from you!
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This is great!
specially the Integrated Leaderboards option, definitely will help in the “retention of users” on any arcade implementing this.
Regular users are very valuable for any website and tools like this will help a lot to keep this regular users coming back, the site grows and becomes a community.
Thanks a lot Mochi! :)
Is there a way to specify how many scores to show, like with the leaderboard in the games? And what is the default?
Is there a way to set it to first show All Time, instead of Daily, or even to only show one type?
There seems to be problems when specifying a size bigger than 400 wide. It moves the leaderboard to the right of the center, and cuts off part of the right side, and the text seems to be scaled up.
Actually it doesn’t seem to work properly with any other size than 400×400. Smaller also messes it up.
Jesper, the issue with size should be resolved. Clear your browser cache and try again. The max the widget shows is currently set to 25, but you can make it less by adjusting the height of the widget. As for showing All Time instead of Daily we’ll look into adding that feature. Thanks!
I tried it out in various sizes, and it seems to work great now. Thanks! :)
Can I make a request for a slightly alternative interface?
At the moment you can use the gateway to pass score events directly to a server.
What would be nice is to be able to use another local connection to pass scores onto some client side logic before it then gets sent onto the server.
Passing in a local connection address to be used to send the scores to as well as the gateway would be simple, no?
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