Ags and facebook connection! vote now yes or no

[Icey]

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[Khris]

You wrote "impotent" instead of "important". And now back to topic please.

[Wyz]

Update:
Ok, I've been working on a cURL binding for AGS yesterday but it will take a bit more work before it's stable. For those wondering what cURL is: it is a system that allows you to connect with websites in virtually any way that exists (also in a secure way when needed). This would include websites like Facebook and Twitter or a future achievements site, you name it. Once I've got this running I'll make modules for specific sites.

[Icey]

Do you think it will be possible to chat back & forth between FB and a AGS game?

[monkey0506]

The real question is why would you want to do that? Are you trying to make your game into a Facebook clone? A Facebook clone that directly links virtually all content from the Facebook site and its respective domains (which are several)? And I only say virtually because of course 5% of it would be directly linked from the SQUARE ENIX site(s), and 1% would be just to toss "Studio 3 Iceygames ♥8Ç!Ã'W♠♪Éà5♫╚♦8ü♥ PMQ DELUXE EDITION 2012!113" on top of any logo images used in the site and replacing links to the actual domains to your own..

I don't mean that to be as harshly derogatory as it obviously is, so I won't try to defend it by saying it's not, but I will insist that it wasn't my intent. I will insist that my intent is to point out that by asking that question you're very much doing the same things you yourself said you were going to make an attempt to stop doing. Seriously, even if you could post things to Facebook from within an AGS game, why is your next thought immediately to tap into the Facebook Chat API so you can keep in touch with your Facebook "friends" (most of whom you honestly probably don't even know in real life)? Is the idea that they might miss out on a single second of the record of what you're doing in your life that horrifying to you?

This isn't just entirely directed at you either. It's actually one of my biggest issues with Facebook (and other "social networking" sites) altogether. Perhaps the only site I actually despise more is Twitter, although out of a desire to keep in contact with certain friends I do actually have a Facebook account.

Sharing things with your friends can be fun and entertaining. Keeping in contact with them is great as well. Beyond that..it's cancer. It's the cancer that's killing us all.

So, now that you've gone and edited the topic title to suggest that a vote is in order, I cast mine as..

Wait, what?? There's no Dislike button?? Why don't I have as much right to share the fact that I dislike something with my friends as I have to share the fact that I like other things? ..what the hell, screw you Mark Zuckerberg. Screw you.

And that is my official position on the matter.

[Icey]

I dont see it as a bad thing that you said at the beginning.

However I plan to use as a second chat system(AGS to AGS & AGS to FB). I actually agree with most things you said.

But I barely post on FB, I mostly uploading Pics of games. And I also want a dislike button. I think that haven't added one because of most people that might get upset if some said they dislike their post.

[Wyz]

It's the cancer that's killing us all.

Go Monkey!

No actually I agree on that and that's why I stay the fuck away from any new social media (I have a Twitter and Facebook account but they contain a silent protest). BUT, I can not ignore the fact that this seems to be the direction a lot of the youth people are going. As communication brought us the capability to use it to the point of meaninglessness, we could do one of two things: revolt or take it into perspective.

As I said, I mostly ignore the existence of that media, but if I were to make games for a certain group of people of who I know they use this media I will take advantage of that. But it should always be optional. If a game was riddled with "I like' and 'twit' buttons it would break immersion and I'd stop playing that game. So my verdict: use it if you know your target group uses it but use with care!

Now this plugin I'm making will have a lot of more potential then just something to connect to Twitter or Facebook, so stay put.