Share scores in Facebook Instant Games

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I’m trying to use a JavaScript event to share a score or a page to Facebook.

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I’ve put this code in the event and the game just freezes when it gets there.
I think I also need to install the Facebook SDK.

Is what I’m trying to do possible? Should I just stop now? :rofl:

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You can refer to a ready-made example in GDevelop :smiley:

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It’s under the Examples category when you try to create a new project.

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Thanks @Nilarjun.
I’ve looked at that example so many times but I can’t work out where the share component is. Could you give me a hint?

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I’ve worked out how to put a simple share button within the open URL event:
“Redirecting...”

This takes you to my FB page for Home For Dinner.
And I learned about it from: The Simplest (and Most Performant) Way to Offer Sharing Links for Social Media | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks

Now, I’m going to work out how to link the variables with the Facebook Instant Game example.

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What I want to do is share a score variable or leaderboard position to a regular Facebook post with just one click.

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Hello, Baylissimo hope you can help me with how to do it

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Hello googleAlex
I don’t know how to share the score, only able to open up a URL.

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Hi, @Nilarjun.
Could you show me how to share the scores to Facebook from the mentioned example?
Cheers

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@Baylissimo So first of all, you need to publish the game to Facebook Instant Games.
Link: http://wiki.compilgames.net/doku.php/gdevelop5/publishing/publishing-to-facebook-instant-games

You also need to create a Leader-board to store the scores.

Once you have done that, you can easily follow that example to load and store players’ scores.

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This event in the example stores the score of a particular player when the “Save_BTN”
button is clicked.

Here the name of the leader-board created was “Win”, so change the variables according to your needs.

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Hi @Nilarjun
That is really cool for working within the game.
I’m asking how to share that variable across to a Facebook post.

For example, you get a high score in a game. There is a share button and you press it.
Then it shares it to your Facebook post so all your friends can see it.
This then leads to other people playing the game.

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Oh, well there is no feature in GDevelop for that, so you have to add custom code for it.

See: How to share score on facebook wall through Facebook Connect? - Stack Overflow

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Thanks. That’s why I had the code from the FB SDK in original post. Trying to work out how to get Gdevelop to work alongside all of FB’s functionalities.
:hugs:

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Sorry, the question should have been Share scores in Facebook from Instant Games.
I have to be more specific with my questions.

So, I’m trying to work out if I can use trigger the Feed Dialog from FB.ui with a custom variable that I pluck from my Leaderboard.

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Can I access the Facebook SDK from Gdevelop? Do I need to include it with my files then refer to it?

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I think I’m out of my depth.

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Does is have to have the good_var and error_var?
Mine does not save to the leaderboards

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Progress? Updates? Anyone had a luck implementing this?

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Not me :expressionless:

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I tried to do so by passing the variable into the url link when sharing on fb. so i append the score from the game as text in the url which is in the share dialog for FB and twitter. There were some issues in different devices’ compatibility though.

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