Facebook game?

[anon_53212789]

Hiya everyone,

I’m interested in making a simple Facebook game to share amongst my friends. The most important feature required is just a global Leaderboard, and maybe posting the highscore on your own Wall if possible.

I did some research and found a few possible solutions, but would like to get some advice from someone more experienced.

dimeRocker - seems to meet my needs, but their development has slowed down and their App on Facebook fails to load (getting timed out)… not a good sign

Roar Engine - have lots of features, but currently in closed Beta. Can’t really try it yet

Roll my own (get a PHP host and setup the Leaderboard myself) - never done it before but saw some tutorials floating around. I’d love to know the cost of getting a decent web host for this. I’ll probably need to purchase some scripts for Facebook integration as well. The simple game probably have less than 10 users per day.

Feel free to recommend other solutions. Thanks!

[Quietus2]

@anon_53212789

Roll my own (get a PHP host and setup the Leaderboard myself) - never done it before but saw some tutorials floating around. I’d love to know the cost of getting a decent web host for this. I’ll probably need to purchase some scripts for Facebook integration as well. The simple game probably have less than 10 users per day.

For that sort of traffic any one of the free hosting sites would suffice. Most of them come with PHP and SQL. 000WebHost.com has been a popular one for Unity devs. You’ll be able to serve both your game and the leaderboard from it.

[anon_53212789]

Thanks Quietus! I’ll give 000WebHost.com a look.