Hi everyone in the land of Unity, this is my first post but I’ve found so much useful information on this forum so I really appreciate all the help this has given us along the way to making our first game, Eggs in Space.
The question I’ve been mulling over is whether integrating both OpenFeint Game Center into an app is acceptable or worthwhile? I get it may be overkill but is there any harm in giving users a choice and obviously there is also the added benefit of the communities that are already formed around them too.
We have already integrated OpenFeint into the game and would like to add Game Center but just wanted to see what other people thought on the matter.
I’m kind of curious too. Giving them a choice is a cool idea, but more important is to give access to open feint for the users running os3 and users running os4 game center, since game center only runs on os4.
Game Center at this point is pretty much a requirement. If you want to stand any chance at all of getting on Apple’s featured lists I can’t imagine it happening without Game Center integration.
OpenFeint has said that they plan to integrate OpenFeint with GameCenter. Not sure exactly what that means, but they are working on it.
In the meantime, I’d just stick with OF. They have a mature set of marketing tools, with a lot of gamers’ eyeballs. (Also they will be supporting Android, I believe. GC will not, obviously.)
So I’d stick with OF for now, particularly if you are already on there, and keep an eye on OF’s plan to integrate.
Just my opinion. With GC being so new you might get some free attention from users or even fr Apple by getting on it quickly. But I personally am not counting on that.
Thanks for the info folks. I really like Fieldrunners integration with the ability to switch between OpenFeint Game Center so I think I may go with a similar approach now I’ve seen it working.