how do you handle people who choose NOT to sign in with game center?

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• BSideGames Member Posts: 392

  January 2012 edited January 2012

  Think we are here to make games for people to play... not to punish them for the way they play games.
  just one more thing for GS to fix.
  IMO just saying
  
• LiquidGameworks Anchorage, AKMember, Sous Chef Posts: 956

  January 2012

  @part12 I'll attempt to be helpful. Try creating a game attribute boolean "GC on". This will allow you to make a switch that either prompts the GC behavior, or not. You could have an options section with a Turn GC off button, or you could use a prompt on your main menu that asks whether or not to activate GC. Then you use a save/load attribute system to ensure the user isn't bothered every time.
  
  As far as I know, you can use the GC icon, you just can't recreate the green felt wood border feel in your app.
• flapair Member Posts: 67

  January 2012

  Will what i think you want is that you want people who don't want GC to not appear game center right? If it is here is what i suggest you do: (2 ways)
  
  1st Way:
  
  Create a boolean attribute and call it Game Center or GC.
  Now make that the first time someone plays the game appear a message do you want game center on or off?
  Than make 2 actor. One called GC On & GC Off
  Put both actor on the message and make that:
  Button ON - If touch is pressed change attribute GC or Game Center to on
  Button OFF - If touch is pressed change attribute Gc of Game Center to off
  
  Than in all the actors you putted something with game center create a rule and in it you want to put the game center behavior and:
  
  If attribute GAMECenter is on
  post score in game center
  login to game center
  otherwise
  don't put nothing in here
  
  2nd Way:
  
  Create a boolean attribute and call it Game Center or GC. Let it true.
  Now create a button that will the Game Center attribute true or false so you make a quick rule:
  
  If touch is pressed and attribute Game Center is true
  change attribute game.Game Center to false
  
  If touch is pressed and attribute Game Center is false
  change attribute game.Game Center to true
  
  Simple as that now you want to put the login to game center and all those things post score to game center the following code:
  If Attribute Game Center is True
  Login to game center or Post Score or view leader board
  
  If you didn't understood just post here a comment and ill answer as soon as i can!
• MotherHoose Member Posts: 2,456

  January 2012

  rather than "Is this your first time?" … ah, what memories that conjures up! :x
  
  game.GCon boolean
  
  Use a Pause Game behavior when your Title Scene is loaded
  offscreen controlActor
  Timer: After: 0.1 seconds √Run to completion
  --Pause Game: Go to scene: pauseScene or whatever
  Timer: After: 1 seconds √Run to completion
  --Destroy this actor
  
  pauseScene:
  with the buttons for on/off in a nice box that covers your Play/Instructions/Options/Continue buttons on the titleScene
  
  onButton:
  Rule: when
  touch is pressed:
  --changeAttribute: game.GCon to true
  --Unpause Game
  
  offButton:
  Rule: when
  touch is pressed:
  --Unpause Game
  
  not too hard to put the Rules: when game.GC is true on the few score/achievement actors in the game
  
  when the player restarts the game, they have the option to turn GC on.
  
  @};- MH
• SAZ_1 Member Posts: 397

  January 2012

  yup just need a on off button then a possible prompt thats it!
• part12studios Member Posts: 620

  January 2012

  hmmm that's a great approach. i would have never thought about using a pause feature.. ultimately what i ended up doing is have it off by default and a nice big "game center" button a user can click to then go in and turn game center on.. i've recently discovered that only a small % of gamers use game center anyway..
  
  however I believe that if the game shows any promise, I may go back and incorporate a more elegant solution like mentioned @motherhoose
  
  Thanks!
  Caleb