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Fixing the Scoreboards - Part Two Blog
19th January 2018

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Aha!

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The result of scrambling a line of text, tested on both the C++ and the Monkey frameworks. Both appear to be outputting more or less the same scrambled line of text, which is great.
Tomorrow I'll start fiddling about with converting that string into a URL, and then I'll need to ensure that the string can be sent to the Scoreboard system without too much hassle.
Hopefully, if all works as intended, I'll be able to stress test a hidden scoreboard, to ensure that it does indeed work for future games.

I'll also need to double-check on Mac and Linux, as I expect there may be ASCII code differences causing problems. Do those sorts of things still happen? I'm not sure!!
Either way, it's a nice enough start, and should make for a nice easy day, tomorrow, without any issues whatsoever!!!

... Yeah.. Probably not, eh!?

Meanwhile

Since I've got all the scoreboard stuff open, I figured I'd fix up the few issues that I never got around to on the site.
There's (finally!) a "Scores" link on the right of the site's menu bar, which takes you to the Scoreboard page.

The scoreboard's been rejigged to look a little more like the main site, and there's also the ability to click a game's header to be taken directly to that game's download page!

Hurrah!!!

All in all, a nicely productive day!

Now for some Popcorn, because apparently it's National Popcorn Day, according to Twitter.
Can't argue with that!!
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