Sure, how would these fare? Good enough? That's roughly 1 cent of a TAP board if I'm not mistaken... Muf should confirm
We don't pay our volunteers. That's kind of the point of volunteering. You don't get paid. Realtalk though if people want to put out a bounty for any of this work, I'm all for it and would contribute some dosh myself. Keep in mind that your work will be held to a higher standard in that case, though.
I've been meaning to make this post for about a year, but never did. I have been working on a highscore/leaderboards system for a few years on and off in php. It is still largely incomplete, and some bugs are present. It's in need for a total overhaul/rewrite. But some functionality is there and working. At the moment you can add a score, but you can't edit/update or remove a score and it doesn't check for duplicate entries. Easily added though. There is an api in place and if you are a homebrew developer making games you can make calls in your game to submit data to the highscore-server when you died or got a new best score. I used to develop tiny games and it's working to send data from the game to the server. The data can be whatever and every game could have different data fields. You can get data for the top 10 entries and display it in the game. (since it's based on unix timestamps you can filter on anything, daily scores, past month, last hour etc etc..) I had ideas of adding moderators that could verify a score, and moderators could be added per game. So Game1 would have one set of mods and Game2 would have other mods etc.. But since I've only used it for personal game making and web learning I never added it. Also php is the devil and I would rather not touch it unless I have to, lol. Anyone would be able to submit a score, and a screenshot or video link for the mod to verify the score. (unverified scores could either be hidden completely until verified or accepted but ranked lower than a verified one) A higher class of mod could add new games people can submit to and such. Twitterbot functionality also another idea. Tweet out the latest scores verified. It could work for any tetris game, score based or time based. (well, it could work for any game, period.) but this is a standalone php website that I built and I have no experience in how to make modules for a forum like muf wants. But functionality-wise it seems like we want the same thing or very similar. Except my idea is not based on forum integration. I just thought that I would mention it that I have something like that that I'm working on from time to time. edit: forgot to mention the best feature: to track your progress. you'll be able to click a username and see a history of old scores they submitted and the date.
This might be way off-topic, but are there any plans in the works to merge the tetrisconcept wiki, the tetris.wikia.com wiki, and the harddrop wiki? There's loads of duplicated articles across all three with different edits made to each article, and being able to consolidate them into one place would be very nice.
The wiki situation is poppycock. Technically all the wikis were one way back in the day, but then drama exploded it into 3. TC has tried to initiate a wiki merge, even suggesting a whole new site we all just link to. HD is firmly not interested, for no particularly good reason. TC and HD both agree that Wikia should die, but there's nothing we can do about it. Wikia aggressively protects its wikis as it's their source of revenue. Doesn't even matter that it's 99% not their original content. On a less depressing note, all this talk of automatic leaderboard integration has me excited!
Burbruee : That would be awesome ! What would make it cool is being able to put links in scores, it’s something that I miss with this new tetrisconcept ’cause I’ve been fixing my TGM3 big mode leaderboard, and it’s apparently impossible to put links on code snif
