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Leaderboards and Player Stats with Protobufs

By Kyzrati | Published: December 26, 2019

After finally ripping out the old leaderboard and metrics system, it’s time to build a new one! I’d technically already completed the first significant chunk of the new system months before, described in the Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File series. In particular the “Preparation” section in Part 1 describes how I created an external file to store […]

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Leaderboards and Player Stats: The Old Way

By Kyzrati | Published: December 10, 2019

It’s the end of an era! From May 2015 through October 2019, Cogmind used the same architecture for score uploading and leaderboard compilation that I’d patched together a few months before releasing the first alpha. That’s all changing as of Beta 9 and the introduction of a revamped “Ultimate Roguelike Morgue File,” so I thought […]

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