frames-v2

should i keep making games just with no leaderboard? or is it fine to just let people cheat

any frames devs have tips on how to deal with people submitting fake scores when trying to build leaderboards?

one idea that doesn’t mitigate it directly but aligns things a bit is to require a small transaction to submit the leaderboard

that way cheaters at least have to pay you! could tie the required payment to how big high the score js 

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it's impossible to stop cheating regardless of games or platform. i think that's why it's important to try to "shrink" leaderboards. make them with friends/communities/groups to make them feel more fun.

i also like the idea of more pay to submit leaderboard entries

In a past life, I built and shipped mobile games for 4 years during the start of the freemium era.

key thing is to add proof of work that's easier for legitimate players to generate i.e. make it harder to cheat

- do all RNG on your server
- submit each player move to the server
- compute scores on the server
- curate leaderboards based on other analytics (session time, age of account)