Tiki Tapa Multiplayer

Multiplayer Challenges

This is the most important addition to the game! In this post i will take you through how to use this feature in the game and what the point of this feature is.

First thing is first check out the new Main Menu layout!

Because we had to add more options to the menu such as Multiplayer and Pundit corner we could not keep it as a Row of buttons so now we have grouped the buttons the Top 3:

• ARCADE
• CAREER
• MULTIPLAYER

will lead the starting the game while the Bottom 3:

• LEADERBOARDS
• YOUR LEGACY
• SETTINGS

will keep you within the main menu.

So to use the Multiplayer feature you will obviously have to click on the Multiplayer Button which can have a notification circle on it depending on whether or not you have any incoming challenges or results from other games that you have sent out! 

Once in the Multiplayer view you will see 4 options:

• QUICK MATCH
• MATCHES
• VS FRIENDS
• RESULTS

 QUICK MATCH

Selecting this option will open up a view to select which difficulty you would like this challenge to be (EASY, MEDIUM, HARD) as shown below.

Once you have selected a difficulty the game will look for an opponent suitable for you, this means who has won around the same amount of BALON'DORADOs as you. I have currently won it 2 times so it will look for opponents who have won it around 2 times could be 1/2/3/4.

(I will explain how to win a BALON'DORADO later in this post.)

Once an opponent has been found you will see a dialog like this:

You can earn TT Dollars by playing the game :) its as simple as that the more you play the more you can get, plus if you want a handful you can always get some from the Stadium Gift Shop. 

Which explains the details of this challenge! The challenge is vs someone called syncNexus who has won the BALON'DORADO once and another piece of information which is vital is the COST so to start this challenge is will cost 25 TT Dollars! The challenge cost varies on which difficulty you selected:-

• EASY - 25 TT Dollars
• MEDIUM - 50 TT Dollars 
• HARD - 100 TT Dollars

the more you pay the more you are trying to win so if you win a challenge you will get your cost back + the opponents TT Dollars too for example, if you were to challenge someone on HARD then you would have to use 100 TT Dollars the wait for opponent to complete the challenge if they lose then you receive 200 TT Dollars but if you lose then no more TT Dollars will be taken away!

MATCHES

If you have any in coming challenges then this button will be available otherwise this button will be turned off. Once you click Matches all your on going matches should appear in a list like below:

The Information is set out in a simple manner.

Name - Difficulty - Score to beat

So if i press any of these the game invite dialog would pop up along a Head to head stat displayer:

This shows the current score between me and my opponent if we have any previous history!

Winning the BALON'DORADO

To win the Balon'Dorado you need to get fill the Balon'Dorado which is the blue progress bar next to the trophy:

Mine is pretty much empty as i just won a trophy and it reset back to 0. But once you have enough points to fill this bar you would have won a Balon'Dorado trophy!

To get Balon'Dorado points you need to win Multiplayer challenges! the harder the difficulty the more points you will be rewarded with! 

• EASY - 10 Balon'Dorado points
• MEDIUM - 15 Balon'Dorado points
• HARD - 30 Balon'Dorado points

Well thats it! Thats the multiplayer feature all wrapped up! i know this dragged along a bit, Sorry.

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Tiki Tapa Update!

So for the last month or so I have been working on the next update for Tiki Tapa! The biggest reason for the update was to get a higher User Retention rate within the game, to do this i decided to add a Multiplayer feature to the game, where the player can send challenges to his/her friends and hopefully get competitive!

This feature was something that i had partially done before for OC-TANE but for Tiki Tapa i needed to enhance the experience for the user and make it easier for them to understand what was going on, and that is where i came across Gamesparks! It was very simple to set up gamesparks to a state where you could post scores to the leaderboards and get notifications when someone beats your score etc but to get these Challenges to work in the way that i wanted them to work was a bit of a pain, as there is a lack of Documentation on their website however it is nice to know that the Support team are amazing at responding to questions and do it quickly too! With the help of the Support team i had the challenges running very quickly then it was just a matter of testing. So with a massive smile on my face i can say that the game has now got Multiplayer features, Which i will explain and take more about in the next post.

Another new feature for this update of Tiki Tapa is an idea that came about by accident, we were reading an article about some funny quotes said by football pundits/current footballers/ex footballers and we were laughing so much that we decided to created a Pundit Corner! which will let the player read these hilarious quotes and it lets them share them to their friends on Facebook or post it on Twitter. It is set up to get quotes from a live server and then update the list within the game which means we can keep editing this list to keep the quotes fresh in the game!

The final big change in the game is the addition of a second language for the game! Tiki Tapa now translates into Spanish! We had to get this done because it it quite popular in Spain plus it is Tiki Taka styled gameplay which is played mostly by Spanish teams! If the player wants to change the language they can do it via the settings options in the menu!

Thanks for reading this version is currently under review by Apple so will be on the store really soon!

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