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md1md1 

Retrieving data from any Gaming Platform into Salesforce.com

Has anyone got any experience retrieving score data from any Gaming platform like PS3, Xbox, etc into SFDC? Just need to know if any of these provide the capability to do so and if so which one and how.

Thanks in advance.
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md1md1
Thanks, folks!

So, we'll try it out with XBox Live and confirm if there are additional questions around this.

If anyone does however have more information on this kind of work, please do share!

The gaming platform is not important as long as we can get the scoring data out.

Cheers,

-MD1

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Jon Mountjoy_Jon Mountjoy_
Heh interesting. Where is the score data stored? On the box itself, or on an external web site? If on a web site which is accessible to the platform (via HTTP or SOAP/REST web services), then sure.
md1md1
Hi Jon (and others following),

The idea is to have a network of players whose scores are to be recorded in SFDC. We have reason to believe that XBox data is stored on XBox Live and is accessible using Web Services that are not officially exposed by MS, but are still available as Gamer Tags (Duncan Mackenzie) - this however needs more research so we were hoping some one with experience would be willing to share.

Its a new idea since we've not found any reference to it out there, but as you point, its interesting. Ideally, it has to be data on the net but if not at least something available on the local network.

Ideas?

Cheers,
-MD1
RyanGuestRyanGuest
MD1,

This is a very interesting idea and it’s possible, but how hard it is depends on what gaming platform you’re using.

It looks like you’re interested in the Xbox 360. As you noted above, Duncan MacKenzie’s unofficial REST API would allow you to get scores based on game tags ( http://duncanmackenzie.net/blog/put-up-a-rest-api-for-xbox-gamertag-data/default.aspx rest API for Xbox game tag).  You could write some Apex code to get the scores you want and put them into salesforce. I think this idea has lots of possibilities. You might also want to consider looking at Force.com Sites to make your integration publicly available.

- Ryan
Jon Mountjoy_Jon Mountjoy_
And check out some of the Code Share projects for those that do some kind of REST integration: perhaps Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs or TwitterForce - that might get you started on coding on this end.
md1md1
Thanks, folks!

So, we'll try it out with XBox Live and confirm if there are additional questions around this.

If anyone does however have more information on this kind of work, please do share!

The gaming platform is not important as long as we can get the scoring data out.

Cheers,

-MD1
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falu2010falu2010

Hi,

I am trying to a create a multiplayer gaming session manager. Such that a user can start a gaming session and wait for other players to join the session, the session starts when the desired number of players join the session. Is it possible to create a live session ?

 

I am thinking of creating a custom object which holds gaming session information and additionally a field to indicate for how much time a session should be active and status of that session. A new user comes and  creates that session. When another user comes while the session is active, he should be able to join. After sometime that session should expire.

 

Also, the game runs locally using applet and the scores are stored on SFDC. You are trying to do the samething with Xbox games score ?

Can you provide me guidance to that ?

 

 

Thanks,

Falguni