Example project made with Godot 3.2
News Example uses Google Drive for hosting text and image files and Feedback Example uses Google Forms for collecting user feedback.
- Template scene for showing ingame news and allowing users to send feedback with an ingame form
- Example for loading news data on button press from a web url that hosts a json file, e.g. your game server or webpage
- Example for loading new images from urls provided in the news json and saving them on the users system for reuse
- Example for a feedback form with category checkboxes and textinput that sends the data to a google form
- Example for update intervals and saving the acquired web data on the user system for reuse to prevent unintentional serverload
- Example for a user controlled button to give permission for the webrequests with settings saved in a persistent file IMPORTANT: This is not enough from a law perspective, especially if you release a game for countries that are strict when it comes to user data like all countries from the European Union. Ask a friendly lawyer with a digital brain cell before you release your game to some countries with functionality from this example or something similar.
- Ruby colors!
In the web.gd script edit both the news_json_file_url and web_form_url with the paths to your online documents.
Example for the minimum structure for the news json file
{
"news_id" : 0,
"image" : "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=MY_IMAGE_URL_WITH_ULTRA_LONG_RANDOMSYMBOLS_AND_NUMBERS",
"text" : "just news dummy text"
}Add as many other key:value pairs to the json as you need and read them with news.get("key_name") inside the web.gd script or with game.web.news.get("key_name") from everywhere in your project.
The news_id is saved on the users system. Everytime the saved users news_id is lower than the news_id from the server the user gets an update notification. If you want to throw another news notification to your userbase just update the json on your server and increase the news_id number by +1.
The image is for the weburl loadingpath to your image file. If you need more than one image in your news customize the _on_NEWS_HTTPRequest_completed() function.
The text yeah is just that, plain text for the display.
If you host it on google drive you get the json url by creating a shareable link for your json file.
Depending on the layout of your feedback form you must edit certain variables. You get the form url by creating a shareable link for your form document and the key names by creating a prefilled form and a copylink that will contain the excact keynames.
In the send_form_data() function you need to edit the entry numbers in the form_data_to_send variable with your keys from the online form.
In case you use checkboxes or something similar on the form you need to prepare those string keys for the user. Make sure that you send the excact string value representing the users choice to the form.
If you don't prepare this everything will be send and show no error but the form will not know where to add it to the database and dismiss it.
Roboto font has its own Apache license. MIT or my personal 'Don't care' license everything else. Do whatever you want with this example and keep your users updated with news while collecting their feedback in Godot.
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