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Steam: leaderboard #172
Description
Part of #142 · Milestone 4: Steam features · plan item 4.5
Size: S · Owner-only step: no
What
Steam leaderboards are free, with world, around-me and friends views; Steam players only; scores are int32 (store cash in thousands); written by the game (cheatable, as the web scoreboard is today).
Decision / recommendation
Owner's decision (Q5, 2026-10-27): split. The Steam version stands alone on Steam's free features, with no Firebase, no Google sign-in and no server; the web game keeps running as today with Firebase. They share code only: separate scoreboards, saves move over with the web-save import. The Steam build's scoreboard panel shows Steam leaderboards ("Most cash at once" and "Furthest stage"), with a Friends tab; the web scoreboard stays on Firestore.
Done when
- Scoreboard panel on Steam shows the Steam boards with a Friends tab
Sources
Plan page (owner only): https://claude.ai/artifact/Cf5SWQHzAKTy2uHCC1UQgw
Activity
ChefControl commentedon Oct 28, 2026
Can start now (28 Oct): build and test this against Spacewar (app 480), Valve's test app, while the Steamworks account is verified. The app id comes from the build settings; a release build that still says 480 fails. Test upload and the Friends tab on a board named
floe-test-…(FindOrCreateLeaderboard works on 480); our real board is set up in Steamworks once the account is ready.