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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Game Centre: Player Name?

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Scraggle
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Posted: 18th Jan 2016 08:26
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I don't see any commands for retrieving a players name that is logged in to Game Centre.
How do we do that?
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blink0k
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Posted: 18th Jan 2016 08:37
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i don't think your allowed to access that. you just do the gamecentersetup(), gamecenterlogin() and GameCenterSubmitScore( ) and the OS handles everything else

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Scraggle
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Posted: 18th Jan 2016 14:57
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So we can't display the player name in the game?
Seems a bit of an oversight!
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Posted: 18th Jan 2016 21:16
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i don't think they want to reveal any details of the customer. i think this would be an OS thing, not an AppGameKit thing. DO you know of any game, that uses game center, that displays the users name in-game?
alternatively you could use the facebook functions to get the players name

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Scraggle
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Posted: 21st Jan 2016 07:16
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Quote: "DO you know of any game, that uses game center, that displays the users name in-game"

Yes.
Clash of Clans is perhaps the biggest and most famous game around at the moment and that displays your name in several places. Along with the name of everyone in your clan and anyone that attacks you.

Since the ability to get the players name (and photo) is available in the development kit, then I say again, it seems like quite an oversight to not have that functionality in AGK.
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JohnnyMeek
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iOS does allow access to usernames from game Center.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/GameKit_Guide/Users/Users.html

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can't argue with that. does google play allow you to see the name?

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Scraggle
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2016 13:17 Edited at: 22nd Jan 2016 13:18
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Yes

https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/games/Player
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Paul Johnston
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2016 18:54
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I've added this to my todo list for a future version.
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