➕Manually add your own Leaderboard in Steamworks

Tutorial on how to manually add a leaderboard trough Steamworks. This is the right approach if you don't want to dynamically add them trough the "Create Leaderboard" node

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📄 Requirements

To have a basic understanding on how this plugin gets used

• you followed step 2: Installing The Plugin

• you followed step 3: Enabling The Plugin

• you followed step 4: Preparing The Project For Use With This Plugin

To have access to the Steamworks leaderboard configuration site you need to have

• an Steamworks account

• an Steamworks app

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🧭 Navigating to the Steam leaderboard configuration

You can create and manage leaderboards in the Steamworks app settings for your app ID by going to

1. https://partner.steamgames.com/dashboard

2. Click on “View checklist” on your app

   
3. Scroll down to “Edit Steamworks Settings” and click on it

   
4. Hover over “Stats & Achievements” and click on “Leaderboards”

   

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➕ Create A New Leaderboard Or Configure An Existing One

The following fields define an leaderboard:

• Name - Set this to be a name that makes sense as part of internal development.

• Community Name - If the leaderboard is to be shown on the Community Hub, set the public facing name here. If there is no name entered, the leaderboard will not appear.

• Sort Method - Set the order for the leaderboard sorting. For positional based leaderboards, use Ascending. For high-score, use Descending. → Are greater or lower scores better?

  → Descending = The top-score is the highest number.

  → Ascending = The top-score is the lowest number.

• Display Type - Determines the types of data to be displayed with the leaderboard. Select from Numeric, Seconds or Milliseconds. → Numeric = The score is just a simple numerical value.

  → Time Seconds = The score represents a time, in seconds.

  → Time Milli Seconds = The score represents a time, in milliseconds.

• Writes - If this is set to Trusted, the leaderboard scores cannot be set by clients, and can only be set by via SetLeaderboardScore WebAPI. Defaults to false.

• Reads - If this is set to Friends, the game can only read leaderboard scores for friends of the user, all scores can always be read by WebAPI. Defaults to false.

• Lobby - If this is set to MMS, the game can only read leaderboard scores for SteamIDs in the same Lobby as the current user. Defaults to false.

• Range Around User - If this is set to a positive non-zero number, the range of scores that can be gathered around a user is limited plus/minus this number. If this is a negative number it will disable the reading around a user. Defaults to 0 = no limitation.

• Global Top Limit - If this is set to a positive non-zero number, the access to the global data is limited to the top X entries. X = the defined number. If this is a negative number it will disable the reading of any global data. Defaults to 0 = no limitation.

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🙏 Final Words

You can always refer to the Steamworks Leaderboard Documentation

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