Game dev #14 – Player profiles
I'm a big fan of the concept of online player profiles. It's a fun way for you to see your current progression, or look at other players to see who's active and how they're doing. Plus, if you're in a competitive spirit, you can compare yourself to others!
Right now, we have player profiles for everyone who's registered to play Minecraft on the Creeper's Lab. As an example, here's my own profile. It tells you quickly when I registered, was last online, my level of activity and a whole lot of gameplay statistics. Hopefully, people will agree with me that it's a clean layout that allows you to find some good information quickly.
This month's poll is about these profiles (answer now if you haven't already!) as I'm looking at the next steps.
One of the most recent additions has been the skulltulas tracker. There are 100 of these scattered across the Lost Woods, pushing people to explore and try to find the whole set. It's a relatively simple addition, yet adds an extra layer of an existing activity. I want to do more work like this in the future.
This doesn't have to be only about Minecraft either! Interordi has communities in other games, and there are some fun integrations that could be done. Notably, we've got many who play RuneScape; I've done a proof-of-concept that shows the progression of a given player within the game. This is interactive – enter a player name to view their data! This is something that could be integrated in a centralized Interordi profile alongside other info.
Something that I discovered earlier this year was RetroAchievements, which adds achievements to older emulated games. Here's my (rather slim) profile at this moment. After a preliminary check, this is something that could also be imported into an Interordi profile. Is this something that you would like to see? If so, please speak up!
Once the data is available, new options open up. Leaderboards? Possible! Comparison with a friend? Sure thing! A summary across all games? Yep!
My idea is to have a single stop for the community's players to view some data about their online games. Do you have any ideas on what should be added, or integrations that would make this worthwhile? Please add your comments below!
– Doctacosa