Social gaming

This section deals with those platform specific functions for integrating social networks with GameMaker: Studio.

As the mobile platforms grow and take up more of the gaming market share, so to does the demand for social interaction and feedback from these games. To meet these demands GameMaker: Studio has a number of APIs integrated into it to permit you to communicate with different networks depending on the device you are targeting for your game.

The following sections contain information on the available social media integration:

  1. Facebook
  2. Achievements and Leaderboards

There is also an asynchronous function that will open a dialogue and permit you to request that a user of your game leaves a comment or rating on a specific web page:

  1. shop_leave_rating


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