Lua GameJolt API [Highscore tables / achievements]

[ManInBlackSweater]

Oh hey there.
I've been playing with this for a couple of hours and I guess it's ready-ready to be released.

Lua GameJolt API Github

Have fun.
Cheers, Max.

[josefnpat]

About time! I keep saying the words "nice" over and over in a high voice.

I can't wait to try this out!

[josefnpat]

About time! I keep saying the words "nice" over and over in a high voice.

I can't wait to try this out!

update:


I've had a chance to test this, and while I have a few issues, this library is perfect!

Log in with your gamejolt account, and visit this page:

http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/teting ... ces/48003/

and run the attached love!

[andmatand]

Hmm I did those steps...am I supposed to get trophies? 'cause I didn't

[josefnpat]

You will have to change the user token in main.lua of the .love, sorry to not mention that.

[andmatand]

Ah, that explains it

[ManInBlackSweater]

Added bit-sized wiki to help guys get started.

[Davidobot]

I'm not too familiar with GameJolt. Do the games usually ask for the username and usertoken of a player for achievements, or are those somehow detected while downloading or something?

[ManInBlackSweater]

I'm not too familiar with GameJolt. Do the games usually ask for the username and usertoken of a player for achievements, or are those somehow detected while downloading or something?

GameJolt automatically passes username and token into Java, Silverlight, Flash and Unity apps.
Also there's a Quick Play that downloads your game and tries to pass user info into your game.
Let's see if we can catch this data in Lua.

[Positive07]

Also there's a Quick Play that downloads your game and tries to pass user info into your game.
Let's see if we can catch this data in Lua.

I got this to work, already made an Issue in the Issue Tracker with two solutions, anyway I'm posting it here too.

Solution one:
Get them in love.load

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love.load = function (args) --Note the args here, this are the aguments passed through the console
	data = {}
	GJ = require "gamejoltlua"
	GJ.init("myid", "mykey")
	for k,v in pairs(args) do
		local a = v:match("^gjapi_(.*)")
		if a then
			key, value = a:match("^(.-)=(.-)$")
			data[key] = value
		end
	end
	GJ.authUser(data.username,data.token)
	GJ.openSession()
end

Solution two:
Using the gjapi_credentials.txt file

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data = {}
GJ = require "gamejoltlua"
GJ.init("myid", "mykey")
local a = love.system.getOS() == "Windows" and "\\" or "/"
local f = io.open(love.filesystem.getWorkingDirectory()..a.."gjapi-credentials.txt")
if f then
	data.username = f:read()
	data.token = f:read()
end
GJ.authUser(data.username,data.token)
GJ.openSession()

The benefit of the second alternative is that you can call it from everywhere, while the first one needs to be in love.load

The second alternatives also let users connect to GameJolt API leaving a .txt file next to the executable (not sure if anyone wanted that feature, but it's there)