Hi,

I'm working on an app at the moment and we want to build in some game mechanics.

I'm not new to the general concepts and have even bought a book (yey me..).

What I would like to know is if there are any good standard packages we could integrate to save coding score systems, level-ups.. say SDKs or similar?

I have heard of Gameville but haven't found any others.

Thanks, Duncan

NSDefaults? GameCenter?

NSDefaults, GameCenter, and Core Data (perhaps with iCloud) would all be potential solutions to investigate to save data/game state.
This is very independent of incorporating game mechanics into your game, though.

One good note: incorporating GameCenter would be a great feature of your app and may increase the likelihood it would be featured. However, you'll need to check if a non-game can use GameCenter for storing high scores. I'm thinking it still doesn't allow that, but... good idea to double check.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

I came across Scoreloop, not sure if they have a web API as well though.. (mobile + web play is possible)