Some of you may be familer with my HSHOF system, this is much more.
ODI is a system that allows your game to access- online highscores, messages, local weather and eventually a couple other things.
The online highscores can add some replay value to your game, messages are a way to let players know of updates... or whatever you want, and local weather is a project/game in itself let alone a feature.

Check out the website for details, www.zingerhead.com/public/odi/
ODI is free for any type of project.

There is a simple example project in the ODI devkit.


Some features...

online highscores
-player accounts
-sort high/low or low/high
-place numbers
-customize formatting
-limit results, example: top 5 scores
-up to 9 additional values, may be text
-encryption protection
-game feed
-web display
-manage players via control panel

message of the day
-save up to 5 messages in your control panel
-access messages from ingame
-change messages anytime

weather
-current conditions
-seven day forecast
-works with US zipcode
-works with international ICAO id
-results similar to xml, easy to mine for data

Inject your game with data!

-poke smot

eeuuhh.. THIS IS GREAT! thanks for this contribution

does it work with A5?

Cool deal. I've always tinkered with the idea of using a player's current weather conditions to influence the weather in the game. Black & White(heh) is the first game I played that did this.

Absolutly it works with A5, the only difference from A6 being that you have to manually load the DLL.
In your main function or somewhere you will need
Code:

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dll_open("gshttpc.dll");

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I'll make a note of that in the devkit.

Quote:

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Black & White(heh) is the first game I played that did this.

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also microsoft flight simulator . make it more realistic while playing online with multiple pilots , all flying on the same real weather .

Online Data Injection (ODI) is closed for business, I deleted the front page from the server just minutes ago.
I deleted the HSHOF front page as well.
I came to this decision for a couple reasons.
1) its a struggle to find the motivation.
2) i've moved on.
3) its a distraction with the new outlook on gamedev I'm trying to adopt. I'm trying to focus.

Its been fun, I got to meet some cool people and see some cool projects.

The one last thing I'll do, is strip ODI to its core(just managing scores and names and extra values in a mysql db)
and make that code available.


*IMPORTANT*
If you have a existing account with either my ODI or HSHOF that account will stay online. I'm just preventing new accounts, your old ones will continue to work.
You've got about 6 more years untill you have to worry about losing your accounts(unless I die or something before then).

Also, I completed nearly every feature that was going into the update I kept talking about.
About 80 percent of them were requested from users.
So, if you requested a feature and I said I'd try, shoot me a mail.
If your the one who requested it and you still want it and I finished it, I'll add it to your account.

Thank you everyone who used my systems, I got more out of creating them and seeing others use it then I ever got out of using them myself!

I know of two other hosted highscore services that are/were in development. Perhaps one of them will fill the gap

poke_smot