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