Score outputs: Posted Score, Replaced Score
These would be outputs allowing for the use of the player's own scoreboard information. This would let us do things like show the player their own previous personal-best time, encouraging them to beat it, etc.
In my view, there shouldn't be any privacy concerns around this kind of thing, as it's the player's own information. That is actually also publicly available anyway. So... should be fine on that front at least.
"Posted Score" -- the value the player already has on the scoreboard. The creator could then show this to the same player, to encourage them to beat their personal best. Or choose when to show a "congratulations on beating your score!" type message.
"Replaced Score" -- if no score post has been made this session, gives the "posted score" value. If a post has been made this session, the value that the score-post just replaced.
This could be done by storing the "posted score" value, and re-getting that value just before a post is made. But that would require more logic setup, and understanding of how to even go about that--making it less accessible to newer creators. So this is effectively a quality-of-life shortcut to help people do a common thing with these outputs.
Similar outputs could be added regarding their position on the scoreboard in question (eg. 1st, 33rd, etc.).
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Yep, we really need more options to work with the score data 👍🏻
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These outputs could also be "player info" wires, so we have info for each player playing the scene.
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You can already do this by saving the score in a variable and saving it in a Dream to display whenever needed.
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Denjo92 Using a variable in that way might work initially, but if the player resets their progress in the dream, it'll become out of sync with the player's real high score, and won't correct itself until the player beats their real high score again.
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Exactly, yeah. This idea is very different to just saving it in a variable.
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