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NMcCoy YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 5	Online high scores for an applet? Jun 11th, 2010, 9:51pm   I make games in Processing, and it'd be nice to know if there's an easy and secure way of making an online high score table for the games. Recommendations?

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)

Re: Online high scores for an applet? Reply #1 - Jun 12th, 2010, 2:34am   You need to have a server-side script (eg. written in PHP) which handle requests sending the high scores back to the central server. Then the applet can also retrieve the list of high scores. Real world online games (mostly Flash applets) encrypt the sent information to avoid having players to artificially up their scores...