How I Built a Leaderboard for My Idle/Incremental Game from Scratch

Welcome to my channel! I'm Yaroslav, the solo developer behind the idle/incremental game "Get a Little Gold." In this devlog #11, I'll be sharing the progress I made over the last month, specifically focusing on the creation of a leaderboard system from scratch.
In this video, I’ll walk you through the steps I took to build a leaderboard system, starting with my custom server setup.
If you are interested in the process of game server development, here's how I created my own custom game server for "Get a Little Gold" completely from scratch: • Game Server from Scrat...
To create the leaderboard, I chose the "lifetime gold produced" stat as the score but needed to convert it into a more manageable format due to its potentially enormous values. I used a logarithm base 2 function to make these numbers readable and trackable, ensuring fair competition among players.
The leaderboard now tracks registered users, displaying the top 100 players in a new tab within the achievements menu. The current user’s score is highlighted, and their rank is shown even if they aren’t in the top 100.
This feature is currently in closed testing, but I hope to start open testing soon so everyone can join in. Stay tuned for more updates, including chest challenges, golem challenges, and hero skills.
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[@eugene_ynwa90]

Hey. Thank you for another good video, mate. P.S. It's funny because I was sitting and like where is a new videos from you, I haven't see them for a quite a while and jinx you uploaded a new video just 1 hour ago after a month of rest.

[@IdealIdleIncremental]

That's cool to know that somebody's actually waiting for my videos ) That motivates me to keep making them. However, I decided to reduce posting frequency a bit, because I cannot seem to keep up with the weekly posting schedule.

[@eugene_ynwa90]

​@@IdealIdleIncremental It indeed make sense to make the video posting not that frequently but steady, so you have time for your family, game development and video editing.

[@IdealIdleIncremental]

@@eugene_ynwa90 I'll definitely keep posting devlogs and some reviews of other cool incrementals I love the most.