A backend service for my double-valued leaderboard?

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Hello devs.

I'm trying to set up an online leaderboard for my game. For each completed level I want to update the player's score with two variables: Cookies and Time. I want a leaderboard system ordered by Time but filtered by Cookies.

I've been trying LootLocker and PlayFab, but unsuccessfully. Both of them allow one single value for each leaderboard entry. So they ask me to make two different leaderboards, retrieve both lists when needed and then sort them on my own as needed.
Unfortunately, I can't follow this path, because I currently have 40 levels and I'm planning to create more of them. So I'd have to manually create 4 leaderboards (4 Time leaderboard for each possible Cookies value, which goes from 0 to 3) for each one of the 40 levels, which would mean to manually create 160 leaderboards.
Also, my leaderboard is permanent, it's supposed to never reset, so if it'll ever get to host thousands of player it'd be impossible to sort and filter them all locally by retrieving data via web request.

I need a backend service that allows me to create leaderboards with multiple variables, or some other way to do this (I don't have servers nor the coding skills to manage one). Any experience?

PS: My game is going to be available for different platforms, mainly mobile. So I need a single custom system. I don't want to use Google Play Services or Game Center.

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Answer by Captain_Pineapple · Jan 20 at 02:32 PM

my personal favorite here would be to just rent some minimal webspace with space for a few sql tables. Any insert/overwrite operation is not really complicated. On Top you can then query for data exactly as you'd like it and subdivide your leaderboards in any style you'd like. Mostly this will also be the cheaper variant as you'll have to put in a bit work by yourself.

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Bunny83 · Jan 20 at 03:12 PM 2

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Same. A simple webspace with PHP support and a mysql / mariaDB server would do it. Though be careful with their terms of services. Some hosters do not allow pure backend usage (they expect you to host "websites", however they define that). Also some have an automatic proxy in front that injects anti bot javascript stuff into the response that you can't deactivate. Other than that it's quite trivial.

AndreaMar · Jan 21 at 09:57 AM 0

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My last resort... I've never done that before. I want also to authenticate players with their Facebook or Google account. Keep track of their progress, collectables, etc... I see there are many third party services that have all these things built-in. It would take me too much time.

A backend service for my double-valued leaderboard?

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