Clay.io API in Monkey?
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| http://www.clay.io looks pretty awesome. Something of a web-based app store for HTML5 games that can be played on mobile devices. They have an interesting API here: http://clay.io/development-tools The API boasts that it: provides one-line integration of user accounts, in-game purchases, social media, achievements, leaderboards, data storage and more. I'm thinking of seeing if I could possibly integrate this with a Monkey HTML5 app as some of my games run great in HTML5 from a mobile web page. Wondering if anyone here has had experience with them yet? |
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| I've been keeping an eye on them, but they don't support mobile platforms (odd, since they could probably just open their API via a REST interface). For now, I'm considering hooking up with one of the more cross-platform compatible backends (e.g., applicasa.com, roarengine.com, scoreoid.com, etc...) (see this post for more options. :-) |
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| Wow. Just checked in with http://quickblox.com/plans/free/ <-- look at their new free plan! |
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| Quickblox looks a lot like PubNub, would you say they are competitors? It's hard to tell. I think Clay.io seems similar too, but I like that they've already built so much functionality into their API. The real problem IMO is the scenario where one day all of a sudden they go away and I have to change everything. |
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| benmc yeah thats a big concern for me as well, I blog about it from time to time, when you rely on 3rd party back ends be it for score, social integration or hosting your putting your little baby, your dream in the hands of some entity that you have never really seen don't really know and have no clue about. As has happened in the past, it only takes one company to go bust, to merge with another company or to get bought out and sold off for it to ruin your game and your gaming community, and when costs are involved in applying a patch it takes on a whole new set of problems. |
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| There is a self-hosted solution called Deployd, and another called Backend in a Box. Taiphoz, you could install one of those (both?) and maybe start hosting for monkey programmers. What do you say?! |
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| if I had enough hamsters powering my webserver I would be more than willing to do so, but as it is right now I am looking for a new host that's a little lower in terms of cost. I had no idea there was an open source solution, self hosting that is a definite possibility rather than self coding something. I wonder if Mark would be open to hosting something like this, he did that server list thing for blitz so its not out of the realm of possibility, guess some one just needs to ask. |
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