Question

I have been searching for a few days now an cannot find a thing.

I have an ipod touch 4g and have just started adding Game Center to a game i’m working on.

This works fine in the simulator, but when i try to test on my device (running the app in debug mode), the game isn’t recognised by Game Center.

I’ve seen on other forums that i should be in sandbox mode, but i cant seem to enter it on my device.

Please could someone tell me how to enter SB mode

Thanks

Answer 1

From the iOS Provisioning Portal:

In order to utilize the Game Center
Sandbox for testing, you must also
create a new Game Center Test User
account in the Game Center application
on your device.

All explicit App IDs are automatically
enabled for In App Purchase and Game
Center. Wildcard App IDs and
duplicates of existing explicit App
IDs are ineligible for In App Purchase
and Game Center.

Basically there are two steps:

1. On a development enabled iOS Device, create a new Game Center account.
2. You must sign your app with an App ID in the form com.yourcompany.yourappname, you can’t simply use the wildcard development id/provisioning profile (in the form com.yourcompany.*) because Game Center won’t recognize your app otherwise.