Unreal Engine Module - Add an all time high score leaderboard - Overview

Last updated on January 13, 2024

Introduction

Stimulating competitive play almost always involves leaderboards. In this module, we show you how to create and display a simple high score leaderboard in Byte Wars so that players can compete against each other.

Prerequisites

In order to start on this module you will need to do the following:

• Complete Module: Track and display a player's high score.
• Byte Wars's tutorialmodules branch from our GitHub repository and have configured the SDK.
• Force enable this module by adding the following code to the Config/DefaultEngine.ini file.

  [AccelByteTutorialModules]
  +ForcedEnabledModules=TutorialModule:LEADERBOARDESSENTIALS
  ...

Learning Objectives

At the end of this tutorial, you will understand:

• How to create a high score leaderboard.
• How to add a player's score to the leaderboard.
• How to list all the scores in the leaderboard and display them.

Preview

At the end of this tutorial, you will see something similar to the image below.

References

• Engagement: Leaderboards