Captain Rogers with Clay.io - the joyful fun of leaderboards and achievements

I wanted to try Clay.io platform for some time now and fortunately I found some free time to tinker with it after finishing my HTML5 mobile game Captain Rogers. I decided to see if the API is so easy to implement. I have to admit that it’s great – there are high quality docs which helps you a lot when working on implementing it.

Clay.io gives you lots of useful tools: from achievements, leaderboards through advertising, licensing to a distribution platform and lots of helpers to export your game for every bigger platform for mobile games: Chrome Web Store, Facebook, Windows 8, Firefox Marketplace and more. And everything is of course for free.

I decided to implement some of these into Captain Rogers on Clay.io and see how it goes. I have to admit that it was very easy – even easier than I thought. I’ve implemented leaderboard, few achievements and included adverts in minutes. The documentation is clear and easy to understand, I had no problems with the panel even though I saw most of it for the first time. Implementing the API was a breeze.

Play Captain Rogers on Clay.io

There are seven achievements you can get:

newcomer (play the game)
scoremaster (reach 1000 points)
destroyer (destroy 50 asteroids)
bomberman (use 10 bombs)
minesweeper (destroy 10 mines)
starchaser (collect 10 stars)
captain (finish the game)

Six of them are easy to achieve, but the last one is almost impossible to get. I myself didn’t manage to finish the game and didn’t heard about anyone doing this. The game is difficult on purpose – you can always get back to it and try harder to beat your previous highscore.