Warhawk Leaderboard: Version 2

This is the updated version of the Warhawk stats widget I posted a while ago. It's been through a lot of changes with 2 new modes: Head-2-Head and MyStats which let the user chose which players' data to display. There's also more control over how the data is sorted and which fields are displayed. The data itself can be displayed as text values or as a bar chart.

Although I did all of the coding and design myself, I discussed the design and functionality of the widget with people at Eike Consulting before starting this new version of the widget. One thing that was very important was to ensure that this would run on the Playstation 3. This meant I had to work within the constraints of Flash Player 7. We also anticipated this being downloaded thousands of times each day so I wanted to keep the file size as small as possible. By removing the Accordion component, I ended up with a smaller file than the original version.

The whole widget is built on an extension of the MVC framework I used for the Mystery Clock. This should allow me to easily add new or change existing functionality without breaking the widget.

Warhawk Leaderboard

This is the first example of the viral widgets I made for Eike Consulting. The widgets are currently hosted on the development site so a password is required to download the XML feed which will populate the fields. Hopefully you can imagine the player names and ranks being displayed in the grey accordion headers with the stats for each player displayed in the body of their accordion tab, I am currently working on two further widgets which are configurable to show only the stats for selected users.The widget is distributed using the Clearspring platform and it has been interesting working with this new API. Because the widget is still in development, I would appreciate it if you wait until it is released before making use of the sharing features.