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Update 0.1.6 - Nothing has changed... or has it?

Yes, something has changed, but you won't see it... yet. I'm working on implementing a monthly leaderboard, and it's a bit more complicated than it seems.

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addedYes, something has changed, but you won't see it... yet. I'm working on implementing a monthly leaderboard, and it's a bit more complicated than it seems. This is because I don't want results older than a month to be taken into account, and this is something that Steam's leaderboards don't offer out of the box. So I'm testing a possible implementation... <boring technical details> The solution I'm currently testing has the game clients save their score on a daily hidden leaderboard. Meanwhile, the game server runs a script every 10 minutes that deletes daily leaderboards older than 30 days. Then takes all the results from the remaining ones and adds them up into a global public leaderboard. This creates a "sliding window" for the results of the past month only. </boring technical details> If all goes well, the next update will reveal the whole new leaderboard in all of its glory :)

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addedYes, something has changed, but you won't see it... yet. I'm working on implementing a monthly leaderboard, and it's a bit more complicated than it seems. This is because I don't want results older than a month to be taken into account, and this is something that Steam's leaderboards don't offer out of the box. So I'm testing a possible implementation... <boring technical details> The solution I'm currently testing has the game clients save their score on a daily hidden leaderboard. Meanwhile, the game server runs a script every 10 minutes that deletes daily leaderboards older than 30 days. Then takes all the results from the remaining ones and adds them up into a global public leaderboard. This creates a "sliding window" for the results of the past month only. </boring technical details> If all goes well, the next update will reveal the whole new leaderboard in all of its glory :)

Yes, something has changed, but you won't see it... yet. I'm working on implementing a monthly leaderboard, and it's a bit more complicated than it seems. This is because I don't want results older than a month to be taken into account, and this is something that Steam's leaderboards don't offer out of the box. So I'm testing a possible implementation... The solution I'm currently testing has the game clients save their score on a daily hidden leaderboard. Meanwhile, the game server runs a script every 10 minutes that deletes daily leaderboards older than 30 days. Then takes all the results from the remaining ones and adds them up into a global public leaderboard. This creates a "sliding window" for the results of the past month only. If all goes well, the next update will reveal the whole new leaderboard in all of its glory :)

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