Oh hi
Without much of an introduction, my list of features I'd like to see in the API. I'm aware that they're not all equally feasible. It's just a list of ideas, some influenced by things I've seen in other games that have APIs :)
Search players by name
Obviously so we can make apps that let users search for other players without needing to acquire users from some other source first.
List of players who are currently online
We could track popular streets with this and make fancy maps! Technically we can do that now, since it is entirely possible to scrape a list of players and then determine where they all are, but it would put a lot of load on the glitch server.
See players who are currently in a given street when querying a street
Similar to the previous item. Could be useful for e.g. finding a public garden that is not being used by too many other players.
Look up items by classid
Technically we can make a database of item defs with the auction interface and it's not even too hard on the server, or we could scrape it from the encyclopedia web page, but it seems like a good idea to have this ability exposed by the API.
Access mail inbox
There are lots of things that you could do with this. One of the best examples I can think of is the ability to charge fees or register donations. For this, I only need access to
my own inbox. I play EVE Online and I've seen some amazing things created by the community of that game, just based on the ability to see when someone else sends you money.
Another thing we could do is make apps that notify players about new mail.
Bonus: Let us send mail too. We could pay out prizes! Again, most applications would only need access to the developer's own mail to do this.
Bonus: Give API keys their own currant account to simplify things and be able to track currant flow.
Bonus: Let us trade credits too, creating additional incentives for glitchen to buy them, and other glitchen to make applications that can be paid with them.
Integrate external items/trophies
This is a hard one, and I'm only throwing it in to have something highly unlikely on the list too ;-) I suppose items would have to be moderated and approved and all that, but it would be totally cool if e.g. a separate game that uses the glitch API could hand out a trophy that we can show off in glitch itself.
Posted 14 months ago by
Snokatt

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