Somebody knows if the game will provide an API about the game, status, players and etc??
We don’t know yet but let’s hope so. APIs will be very useful to retrieve user’s information and can be accessible in for example website, or mobile apps.
what is API?? some kind of flash information?
@Pochipochi :
An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of functions for developpers that are used for communicating from a system to another with a defined and stable protocol.
In our context, if IMC decides to provide an API, developpers could use it to pull data from the game.
A simple instance of what a function from the API could be :
- GetNumberOfPlayersConnected (returns the number of players connected to the game server)
Website developers love those kind of API, because they can make easily their website more dynamic.
A more simpler example in the case of online games would be to retrieve the server’s status (online or offline). If you wanted a more concrete example outside online games, let’s take for example, Instagram. A lot of websites have used Instagram’s API to retrieve user’s pictures and display it to those corresponding websites. Without API, you wouldn’t be able to gain access to those datas. That is why I’ve said in another thread (TOSBase’s thread) that it would be very advantageous for them to get ToS API in which they can use for various things, but most importantly, server’s status.
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