game center confusion

iOS
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ok I’ve found a couple of game center tutorials
and no documentation

the guides seem incomplete.
The one that you come to via a google search easily


builds but does nothing - it seems to not do any set up so theres no checking to see if they are a user at start up etc. it runs but all the tests fail so it does nothing.
which is a shame as it seems super simple.

the xamarin one
https://github.com/xamarin/monotouch-samples/blob/master/MTGKTapper/MTGKTapper/MTGKTapperViewController.cs
is a port of a objective C apple example
its using lots of mono libs and ui kit stuff - i don’t use any of these views / controllers in my pure monogame title.

confused.

Ok so I have something kinda working in a few lines of code.


though it says hello (sandbox mode) at the top
then says I’m not logged in

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Not sure if you figured this out, but MonoGame does most of the heavy lifting for you with Game Center.

// Define gamer variable
SignedInGamer gamer;

// Launch Game Center authentication
gamer = new SignedInGamer();

// Later on, interact with Game Center in various ways
gamer.UpdateScore(category, score);
Guide.ShowLeaderboard();
Guide.ShowAchievements();
3

Thanks picobots, that looks great I’m looking forward to trying that tomorrow :slight_smile: