Facebook Friends Leaderboard

I've searched a lot, but I haven't found anything relevant.
Many new mobile games have a Facebook Friends Leaderboard (like ie. Subway Surfers).
Is possible to achieve this with Unity3D ? and how ? I need some hint to find the right direction.

Many Thanks.

 

Its posible but it wll cost you some time and struggling. First you need to get acces to facebook inside Unity, I would recommand Prime31 Social plugin. Also, you need to create an app on facebook, Prime's tutorial will tell you how to do that. Next to need to let the user using sign in. Then you need to figure out which facebook calls you need to get those leaderboards. For that you need to digg through the facebook api which is bit of a beast.

Hopefully this will get you started

 

I've talked to some expert and now I've the solution:

Create a database that will record the higger Score + facebook id of the player + his name
Using a facebook integration plugin get all the ids of the facebook user's friends and compare them with the ids in the database
and voilà here is the friend's leaderboard


EDIT: just one consideration: I don't know if with Prime31 plugin you can grab all your facebok friends IDs !

 

Hi,
If i understood you want to integrate your Fb friends in your leaderboard.
Yeah it is possible to integrate your Fb friends but you need a database or lots of custom code just have a look to this it will provide you all the relevant information or help you to integrate your Fb friends and making a leaderboard in your app by few lines of code and you dont need to worry about backend support.

FaceBook Friends LeaderBoard

for more details just click on the url given below, let me know if you have any query.
http://api.shephertz.com/app42-dev/unity3d-backend-apis.php

 

Is there another solution/tutorial without using the example above? Really need help in this.

 

please help guys...at least is there any site to store the high scores???like the below site for game maker
http://gmscoreboard.com/
i just want to send the name of the player , his score and to retrieve list of high scores that were stored in the cloud..can anyone help me???

 

Hi sandeepsmartest,

I think you are looking for this type of leaderBoard sample .
Unity3D_LeaderBoard

Watch this running sample video -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhHLPJDibU0

Happy coding.

 

It's surprising that no one has suggested using the facebook Score API.

Since you want to attach a score to a facebook user it makes sense to just use the facebook's Score API which is free and can be used to populate a leaderboard in your game.

Take a look here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/scores/

You could easily query the list of scores using Prime31's plugin, or you could use the free Unity plugin provided by facebook here:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/unity/

Note that using the facebook plugin requires manually doing http get and post to interface with the Graph API, whereas Prime's plugin provided some wrappers to simplify the score API.

A very useful benefit of using facebook API is that any score update will potentially appear on the facebook timeline automatically, which is obviously good for the game's virality.

 

I solved my problem now, but I realise there's no 'easy mode' to set up a Facebook Leaderboard, even with all those plugins, which are not centered on implementing leaderboards. I eventually outsourced the job to a programmer specialised in online integration and multiplayer so I could focus on other tasks.

After going through all that trouble, I then packaged the relevant scripts I use, wrote a guide, and made it into a plugin to help others It was approved on the Asset Store just over a month ago: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/17803

Some features:

~Leaderboard based on users' Facebook friends
~Real-time next highest rank (displayed at a corner in-game)
~Invite friends
~Post to timeline (scores, image and text)​

 

Check out this one : https://github.com/AkshayMShepHertz/App42-Unity3d-Facebook-Global-LeaderBoard/

 

HIi
I bought your asset, but there is no instruction about how to create a board in game. The instruction provided is only for online setup.. not in game.
Do you have instruction for how to setup a leaderboard in game?

 

Hi,
Do you have some sample code on how to implement the FB.API(get) and FB.API(post) includding the deserialzier for the FBResult?? Im having a
400 Bad Request
UnityEngine.WWW:get_text()
everytime I try to read the information requested.

Im doing this:
FB.API("/ --FB App ID-- /scores?fields=score", Facebook.HttpMethod.GET, LeaderboardCallback);

void LeaderboardCallback(FBResult response){
Debug.Log (response.Text);
}

 

Check out : https://github.com/rankpin/rankpin

top/weekly/friend ranking system.

 

http://u3d.as/aRQ

Look into my plugin. Hope it'll serve the purpose.

 

A lot has changed since then.

Major update 2.0 was just approved and went live as of March 2015, and most scripts have been re-written and re-commented for much easier understanding. All Facebook SDKs updated to latest too.

I also added a comprehensive "FAQ and Solution" section based on the support emails that I have solved throughout the 8 months since the initial release!

Plugin now has 4 stars based on 15 reviews https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/17803

 

StevenMCH, is this plugin working in Unity 5.0?

 

I recommend trying SOOMLA's social leaderboard. I'm using it and very happy with its simple API, plus the fact that it's completely free of charge

 

Facebook has launched its Unity SDK. Download form here, it has the leaderboard you were looking for

 

Hello friends, maybe anybody knows, how to make this: Feature to see FRIENDS GAME PROGRESSION like in Saga.. How they did it? In saga we can see friends progression just after the LOGIN TO FB, without any other permissions..

 

It's not Score API from Facebook. They have created a whole backend for this purpose that they are using for almost all of their games.

 

Hey I think by now you know how to make an fb leaderboard, could u help me creating it suggesting with a tutorial or any other means?