Online competitions for prizes

Discussion in 'Public Game Developers Forum' started by buttermilktoast, Oct 24, 2012.

  1. buttermilktoast

    buttermilktoast New Member

    Oct 17, 2012
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    Hi there everyone! Have my first game in waiting for review status; overview it's a basketball arcade game and top scores are posted to the Game Center leaderboards.

    Anyway, I was thinking about running some sort of competition where the top 2 scores would win iTunes gift cards or something like that. The thing is, I wanted to users to like us on Facebook and post their game center name (so we know who was who) and then we could look at the leaderboards to see who was the top player. Just to get things started and to get people to play hehe.

    I heard about how you can hack the leaderboards so I'm just worried about the few who would ruin it for everyone else. Or even Facebook for that matter, posting other people's aliases etc.

    Just wanted to see if anyone had any lessons learned from their experiences and what not. Or if anything else could go wrong. Was thinking if anything, a fallback would be just a random drawing or something.

    Thanks!
     

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