Announcements

OpenFeint 2.5 is here!


We’re very excited to release the latest version of OpenFeint. With 2.5 you’ll find it easier to build custom integrations of the OpenFeint platform and start taking your game to the next level. Want to get started right away? Check out the overview and some cool examples of the new tech here.

What’s New?
  • New and greatly improved (fully documented) APIs for:
  • Leaderboards
  • Scores
  • Announcements
  • Achievements
  • Challenges
  • Cloud Storage
  • Invites
  • Featured Games
  • Social Notifications
  • Current User & other Users
  • Turn-based mutiplayer
  • RESTful API for game data retrieval
  • Exposes easy to use advanced features such as announcements and invitations
  • Old APIs remain untouched for compatibility
  • Added support for "distributed scores". A new feature used to pull down a wide set of highscores to show during gameplay. See OFDistributedScoreEnumerator.
  • Updated Support
  • All new APIs use doxygen style comments. A doxygen docset is included in documents/OpenFeint_DocSet.zip for the new apis. Unzipping this and running it will install the doxygen for OpenFeint into XCode.
  • We’ve done a lot of work preparing for better documentation and you’ll find much more information in the header files in the include folder.
  • The Sample application has been updated to showcase all of the new APIs and includes lots of great examples and a good way to run some simple tests.
  • Added support for "distributed scores". A new feature used to pull down a wide set of highscores to show during gameplay. See OFDistributedScoreEnumerator.

We’ve created a series of 2.5-specific documentation to help you get started.  As always, if you’re still running into problems feel free to email us or try using our new Developer Support Forum.

OpenFeint 2.5 Overview  - Introduction to the different components of OpenFeint 2.5 and information on functionality and which files to check for more information.

Unlocking an Achievement – Introduction to unlocking achievements and a good starter for the pattern used in our new APIs.

Favorite This Game – Want a call to action to ask the user to Favorite your game in OpenFeint?  Check out this helpful article.

Developer support forums are live!

The return of developer support forums. You'll have to create a new account (sorry) and we're working on migrating the content from the old forums to the new system. Please send us feedback as we're definitely looking to improve the forums!

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