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Leaderboards/Rankings Now Shown on Site!

New Web Feature: Leaderboards

Posted to Blurst by Matthew on April 14th, 2009

Leaderboards have been available in-game for awhile, but haven’t made an appearance on the Blurst.com site. Until now! Leaderboards have launched for Off-Road Velociraptor Safari, Blush, and Minotaur China Shop. The other games use different scoring internals; we’ll either bring them in line with the new system or do some display for the older tables.

Take a look at Raptor Safari’s leaderboard page. You’ll see two columns of data. The left column shows the global ranking:

The right column shows your personal rank in each of these leaderboards:

Coming soon:

- Profile viewer (view someone else’s profile)
- Game viewer (view a particular game to see how scoring broke down)
- Friend list/leaderboard
- Geographic leaderboard

What else would you guys like to see?

Tags: Blush, Minotaur China Shop, Off-Road Velociraptor Safari

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MadDane

I think the profiles could use some extra info:

Total # of raptors killed for each kill type (clothesline, clean, toss etc.)
Total Pt.... oh heck... winged thingy killed *lol* (and method here too)
Longest jump (And of course jump kill too)
Most airtime for jeep and raptor etc.

Also the game would be a great app. for download and possibly multi player games. -It would be awesome to wreck jeeps with the ball and chain (No, not my wife... The thingy in the jeep ;O)

A version with no time limits could be great for people wanting to explore the map, and also a minimap would do wonders.

That's about it. -For now...

Kind regards,
- Johnny

Mike

I think there should be a free drive mode, with no time limit. I feel the time limit decreases the amount of fun (only by a slight margin). I think there should also be some sort of online race.

Mikey

It would be good to see some more detailed stats for the games... like how many raptors I've killed. I'm sure I've killed way over 1000 and still haven't got the achievement—even after more than 200 games. My kill average is WAY more than five per game...

Shane

You know what would be VERY fun?
FREE MODE!!!
I would love that, just driving around and killing raptors...

Matthew

bonster: Send me an email about that-- matthew@blurst.com.

Eric Hein

I noticed a bug with the "Dock Worker" achievement. I played one game in which I picked up 16 crates, then in the next game i pushed in six and it gave me the achievement, showing 21 total crates at the end of the second game.

assaultangel

A lot of the one-line stats under the welcome message at the top right of the page are outdated or just incorrect; also, I'm not sure that the cumulative achievements (high roller, etc) are being awarded correctly. I'm guessing it's due to moving over the leaderboards and scores. Can it be fixed?

bonster

that is in Raptor Safari --- sure was fun and I would love to have CREDIT FOR THAT FEAT.

bonster

i got 36,418,100 on April 10, '09. I do not see it on the leaderboard. I have a screenshot to prove it. How can I emaiol that to you?

ortoslon

Leaderboards bug: Blush Top 5 Today shows:

#1 ortoslon 2,031,200 1 hours ago
#2 ortoslon 3,334,850 1 hours ago
#3 ortoslon 4,092,450 an hour ago
#4 Guest241607 2,440,900 25 mins ago
#5 ortoslon 3,467,600

Anonymous

MULTIPLAYER GAMES

ortoslon

My profile is correct now, thanks.

Matthew

@ortoslon: Profile page is still calculating scores manually (and slightly differently--doesn't take into account ties and some other things).

And missing background does mean you have cached CSS. You may actually see this a few times before it completely clears; we use multiple servers for site images and things, which means you may need to reload to fix it multiple times. It should clear up by itself before too long, though!

soad667

Wow, nice! They look great...
Just for the record, i use Firefox 3.0.8 too and i have no problems.

What else i would like to see? Just one silly thing come to my mind. How about... a virtual trophy self with things/trophies you win as you get achievements or getting on leaderboards etc? :P :)

Matt

@James and Aras: Stylesheet was still cached by the browser perhaps?

Aras Pranckevičius

Same problem as for James here (Chrome 1.0.154 on Windows). On first page load, no background images for leaderboards, text smashed together. Refreshing the page fixes it.

ortoslon

Strange... My profile shows: "Best Leaderboard Position: #3" in Blush, but leaderboards show that I'm first.

James

Score and days are in the same font and smashed together for me in Firefox 3.0.8 on Linux. It looks like "#1 ortoslon 8,482,50038 days ago".

That is much days.

Harley Witt

Leaderboards are great. I love the graphical presentation of them as well as the rest of your website design. Your main competitor is Kongregate so offering more contests, more social networking (build your own or throw in a meebo chat). Have you considered adding games from other sites or to allow user content somehow? What about taking it to the next step and using Unity for other web design elements. I know it is scary but I'm trying it with mine. Also, please consider making some education type games. You have great skills and you could turn one into an educational experience somehow. Ah, if I could just quit my dayjob and program in Unity all day like you guys. Write more blog posts, twitter more and keep up sharing in general. I like hearing what you are up to.

Griffplar

I'd really like an offline version of Off-Road Velociraptor Safari, without time limits... but I don't know how do-able that is...

Very impressed with the games so far though, keep up the good work!