I am becoming obsessed with the iPhone game Canabalt. In the game, you run and jump for as long as you can before you die. Maybe not revolutionary, but it's damn fun.
My biggest problem with the game is that the only way to share your scores is to tweet them. You have a leaderboard on your phone, but it's not global. And since I'm so awesome at the game and Sippey asked nicely, I built a public leaderboard based on people's tweets.
That's right, the world now has a Canabalt Scoreboard.
For those who are technically minded, I have a script that hits the Twitter search API every few minutes and grabs people's scores. I went back as far as Twitter would allow to grab old data and I'm ignoring scores from people (cheaters) who posted from the web and not the API (which sucks for me as I've gotten 16k+, but didn't tweet it).
That's it! Good luck, Canabalters.
10/27/09 2:46 PM
hey man, sorry if i'm way behind the curve here, but....
i'm danny, I did the music for canabalt. wanted to say thank you for making that high score board! it's awesome, and the people hitting 20k+ are amazing freaks of nature.
05/24/11 10:35 AM
hey Danny, the music you made for this game is just awesome..and the main credits for which people can continue playing this game, is your music..