iPhone Social Networks

Discussion in 'General Game Discussion and Questions' started by Tavoss, Jun 17, 2009.

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What xbox live-a-like do you want to see become the standard

  1. Plus+

    57 vote(s)
    42.9%
  2. Scoreloop

    40 vote(s)
    30.1%
  3. OpenFeint

    22 vote(s)
    16.5%
  4. Geo

    1 vote(s)
    0.8%
  5. other...

    13 vote(s)
    9.8%
  1. coolman

    coolman Well-Known Member

    In only know another who is not in this list.

    AGON Online
     
  2. Xandan

    Xandan Well-Known Member

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    just got rolando 2 and the plus+ network is really impressive
     
  3. jasoncitron

    jasoncitron Well-Known Member

    Jun 18, 2009
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    Founding Craftsman of Hammer & Chisel. Previously
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  4. morten795

    morten795 Member

    Jun 19, 2009
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    Please, check out some new AGON Online games:

    * Sheepstacker (http://itunes.com/app/Sheepstacker - http://tinytimgames.com/games/sheepstacker/scores),
    * iHunt 3D (http://itunes.com/app/iHunt3D)
    * Arcade Claw (http://itunes.com/app/ArcadeClaw)
    * Rollercoaster Builder (http://itunes.com/app/RollercoasterBuilder)

    More games are on the way to the App Store - look out for:

    * Planet God (http://www.game-grinder.com/PlanetGod.html)
    * Crush Bunny (http://3sidestudios.com/game_crushBunny.html)
    * Azplode (http://darktable.com/)

    and other AGON Online enabled games are coming soon. We will soon launch our end-user site for tracking AGON Online games at http://agon-online.com

    For more information on getting AGON Online integrated into your own game please check out our new developer site: http://developer.agon-online.com/

    Best regards,
    Morten
     
  5. Krispod

    Krispod Well-Known Member

    May 19, 2009
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    Plus+:
    *Needs messaging
    *Be able to se your friends gamerscore
    *See if your friends is online

    Btw: those it exist a guided tour of openfeint? i dont understand that network :S
     
  6. coolman

    coolman Well-Known Member

    But not a chat, for goodness sake
     
  7. The Game Reaper

    The Game Reaper Well-Known Member

    Dec 6, 2008
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    The Emerald Isle
    Plus+ makes the others look like a monkey's ass dragged through a cheese grater.
     
  8. tmock90

    tmock90 Member

    Oct 15, 2008
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    I agree. The Plus+ network has a good looking and easy to use interface. I could see Plus+ pretty easily becoming the standard in gaming networking.
     
  9. jetpacker

    jetpacker Member

    Jul 9, 2009
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    Isn't OpenFeint/Scoreloop just inherently better than Plus+ for the sole fact that it opens up for ALL developers who want in??? Isn't the whole point of these networks to connect and interact with as many people as you can playing all different games, not just interact with people playing ngmoco's 6 or 8 games or whatever (which aren't bad by any means).

    I am a developer of Jetman Jack (http://www.itunes.com/apps/jetmanjack get it now while it's FREE, enough self promotion, back to the topic) and I recently decided I wanted to sign up with one of these services to add to my game. I need your guys' help deciding. I have only looked into these for the past couple days and I am downloading games with each one to see what I like best. Someone should post a reply with all the features/pros+cons of each one. Plus+ is nice, but the fact that it only works on their games makes it almost useless as what it is trying to be (an x-box live sort of environment). Scoreloop has a cool UI and it is free for developers, I really liked this one until I read about the coin thing and users have to buy coins to challenge each other. I think that is kind of dumb to be honest. I think the challenge feature is the most viral feature of all of this and making users buy coins to be able to use it seems odd; even if they do share profits of the coins with developers, I would rather pay a tiny amount for the service than make my users buy credits to challenge. I like OpenFeint (minus the name), although the UI is not very good and could be a lot cleaner like Plus+ and Scoreloop.

    Whoever knows the most about all the differences should post a complete list of pros/cons so us developers can choose as a whole what we want to go with
     
  10. coolman

    coolman Well-Known Member

    jetpacker,

    Look at this entire thread and also to this

    http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=16161

    Comparisons, pros and cons are talked in both.

    Coin system in Scoreloop makes sense for me, your challenges have more value if you challenge for something. Also you won coins downloading a SL enabled game, making in the high score .. and also winning challenges.
     
  11. Anders

    Anders Well-Known Member

    Feb 3, 2009
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    Co-owner and CTO at Color Monkey
    Sweden

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