An Idea

[Dayo]

i have had an idea recently ill explain it below.

1. A user signs up for my site

2. Once signed up the user can see a list of text based games

3. The user can use a 1 click sign-up and play the game instantly!

How this would work...

1. Game owner signs up and gets there own unique key

2. They add a file to there site for the user to land on, cos they have already registered on my site the details would be transfered over to yours

3. the owner gets free sign ups

with enough intrest ill start work on this

any ideas to add?

[Spudinski]

Well, this might not work because they need a password, a username and an email address - this is required by most games.

Also, storing unencrypted passwords in a database is very insecure - so no to plain text passwords.

When I designed the showcase of Aplision, to list my modifications I thought about this as well.

The only thing I came up with is making an auto generated account.

Also, integrating OpenID would be useful... but to some extent.

[Dayo]

Well, this might not work because they need a password, a username and an email address - this is required by most games.

These would be stored in my DB.

Also, storing unencrypted passwords in a database is very insecure - so no to plain text passwords.

They wouldent be unencrypted, i would store in md5, sha1 etc... then ur site would do something like.

$user->password(md5);
$user->password(sha1);

[Analog]

It could work..

Another method would be to only pass the username and email over to the game.

On the game side a temporary pass word could be randomly generated and emailed to the user. Along with an in-game mail requesting that the user set a more secure password.

[Zeggy]

Or you could implement it just like openid where the participating games don't require a user password from your service...

[Curt]

i think this sounds like a very nice idea :)

[srachit]

Sounds good :)

Just wanted to tell that u havent thought of this recently, it has been on your mind for a long time I remember a same post by u ages ago :P

[Dayo]

no i swear i just thought of it today while stacking some wood *wonders why* im gona look throgh my topics to see if i did post anything like this :wacko:

EDIT: that looks liek my social site idea and looking at it yea it looks very similar, maby ill just make a user database not all the social side of things, and there i was thinking i just thought of it recently, maby cos i thought of it twice its telling me something [/rant]

[Dominion]

with the right backing it could work but you would need some very big games to sign up to make it worth the user signing up to your site rather then just signing up to the games individually

[Dayo]

yea that would be the problem, insted of any game can sign up what if i were to hand pick the game sites, code there user handler individuly (as some games dont use engins). Illd do this as a trial to see if it works. (will be a few months before beta stage)

[DigitalGerm]

U mean something like mmogame.com ?

Your idea is great.

[Dayo]

mmogame are 1 company and there games were made by them, this is for anyone and every one not just for 1 company

[GillBate]

It sounds like Facebook game.

BTW if you really do this porject I've an idea.

For game submiting, you may let game developer choose to use these..

- max length of username

- use username or email

- add prefix or suffix on your member's username to prevent existed name [or anything for solving this]

- callback URL to recieve by $_GET [e.g. my game need to choose class to complete registration]