Slide presentation by Christopher Saunders (Application Development Consultant, BlackBerry) on BlackBerry Jam Asia 2013 in Hong Kong, September 27 2013 titled "Take Your Apps and Games Social with BBM and Scoreloop SDKs".

1. Take your Apps and Games Social
with BBM and Scoreloop SDKs
JAM824
Christopher Saunders
David Patterson
September 27th, 2013

2. Agenda
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Why. How.What.
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3. BBM: A Vibrant Social Network
 60 Million+ Monthly Active Users
 30 Million+ BBM Groups Users
 60% of BBM users use BBM Daily
 BBM growth is viral
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BBM is your private social network for active, real conversations
It’s immediate.
You trust it.
You control it.

4. Advantages of BBM Social Platform
The BBM platform offers a number of benefits for
developers:
Increased discoverability
Increased engagement and app stickiness
Increased monetization
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5. BBM Social Platform
 A set of BBM specific APIs that allow developers to
integrate their applications with BBM
 Available in core Native, Cascades and WebWorks
 Features include:
 BBM Contact List & Invitations
 User Profile Updates
 Application Box Updates in User Profile
 Invoke BBM through Invocation APIs
 Invite to BBM, initiate chat, share content
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6. BBM Contact List and Invitations
 Ability to Invite your BBM contacts to download an application
(Integrated with BlackBerry World)
 Obtain a list of BBM contacts that have the application installed and
registered
 Listen for changes to profiles of these contacts
 Status change to -> “Wants to play SlingShot 5000 with someone”
 Local app could prompt the user to start a multiplayer game
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Best Practice: Make it easy for users to find the invite
button…but try to make it feel integrated into the application

7. BBM Contact List and Invitations
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8. BBM Contact List and Invitations
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9. BBM Contact List and Invitations
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10. BBM Contact List and Invitations
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11. BBM Contact List and Invitations
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12. BBM Contact List and Invitations
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13. User Profile Updates
 Ability to update the user’s BBM Profile information
 Personal Status Message
 Avatar
 Availability
 App that makes the change shows up in the context
of the update in the BBM Updates tab
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Best Practice: Make the updates relevant for example:
“Checked into Starbucks at location X” instead of “I’m
using Foursquare”

14. User Profile Updates
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15. User Profile Updates
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16. User Profile Updates
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17. User Profile Updates
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18. User Profile Updates
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19. User Profile Updates
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20. User Profile Updates
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21. User Profile Updates
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22. User Profile Updates
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23. Application Box Updates in User Profile
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 BBM Connected apps are listed
in a users BBM Profile
 Clicking items launch the apps
(or BlackBerry World)
 Add items within your app’s
Profile Box
 Achievements, high scores, current
track, important news
Best Practice: Take advantage of Profile Box Items…coming
soon is ability to launch your app and pass it context!

24. BBM Social Platform APIs
 BlackBerry 10
 C BlackBerry Platform Services (bps) APIs
 Add to existing applications using bps
 Qt style APIs
 Integration with Cascades applications
 WebWorks APIs
 AIR APIs
 BlackBerry OS 5-7
 Java APIs
 WebWorks APIs
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25. BBM Social Platform APIs
 Use the BBM SP seamlessly between BlackBerry 10 and
BlackBerry OS 5-7!
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BBM Social Platform
IMPORTANT – Use the same SKU in App World!!!

26. BBM SP Registration
 First step for any BBM Social Platform application
 User must allow the registration
 User can enable/disable BBM SP access at any
time
 Register on app startup or before using BBM SP
feature
 In 10.2, registration progress dialog removed!
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27. BBM SP Invite to Download
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m_messageService = new
bb::platform::bbm::MessageService(m_context,
this);
m_messageService->sendDownloadInvitation();

28. BBM SP Profile Boxes
//Create a profile box with item
bb::platform::bbm::ProfileBox* m_profileBox m_profileBox = new
bb::platform::bbm::ProfileBox(m_context, this);
m_profileBox->requestRegisterIcon(iconId[id],
bb::platform::bbm::ImageType::Png, iconArray);
m_profileBox->requestAddItem(QString("New High Score: 2!"),
QString(iconId[id]),
QString("cookie").append(iconId[id]));
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29. BBM SP Profile Page
//Grab the user's Profile.
bb::platform::bbm::UserProfile m_userProfile = new
bb::platform::bbm::UserProfile(m_context, this);
//Update the user's personal message.
m_userProfile->requestUpdatePersonalMessage("New Message");
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30. BBM SP Contacts
 Obtain a list of BBM contacts that have the application
installed and registered
 Listen for changes to profiles of these contacts
 Status change to -> “Wants to play SlingShot 5000 with someone”
 Local app could prompt the user to start a multiplayer game
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31. Invoking BBM
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Use the Invocation Framework to
Invoke the BBM Client to…
• Start chat with specific contact(s)
• Start chat, user chooses contact(s)
• Set BBM Avatar Image
• Invite Contact to BBM
• Share Text with contact
• Starts chat with pre-populated
message
• Share Image with contact
• Share Custom File

32. Start BBM Chat
InvokeActionItem {
title: "Start BBM Chat“
query {
invokeActionId: "bb.action.BBMCHAT"
uri: "pin:2100000A"
}
}
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Application Specifies Contact

33. Start BBM Multi Person Chat
InvokeRequest request;
request.setTarget("sys.bbm.conferencehandler");
request.setAction("bb.action.BBMCONF");
request.setMimeType("vnd.bb.bbm/contactlist");
//Can specify contacts here.
InvokeManager invokeManager;
InvokeTargetReply *reply = invokeManager.invoke(request);
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34. Start BBM Multi Person Chat
QVariantMap map;
QVariantList contactList;
QVariantMap contact1;
contact1["pin"] = "2100000A";
contactList.append(contact1);
map["contacts"] = contactList;
QVariantMap root;
root["conference"] = map;
request.setData(bb::PpsObject::encode(root));
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Specifying Contacts

35. Start Group Chat
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User Selects Contact App Selects Contact
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36. Share Text Over BBM
InvokeActionItem {
title: "Share Text Over BBM"
query {
mimeType: "text/plain"
invokeTargetId: "sys.bbm.sharehandler"
invokeActionId: "bb.action.SHARE"
data: "This is some text to share."
}
onTriggered: {
data = "This is some new text."
}
}
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User Selects Contact

37. Share Text Over BBM
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User Selects Contact Text/Data Can Be Empty

38. Social Gaming in a Nutshell
• Leaderboards
• BBM Integration
• Online User Profiles
• Achievements
• Challenge player
• In-Game Currencies
• Virtual Goods
• Default UI
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39. Scoreloop
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Scoreloop connects games and the people who
play them
Scoreloop is Cross platform including BlackBerry 10,
Android, iOS, WP, Marmalade, Unity
Active Games: over 3,500
Total users: 350M
Daily Active Users: 3.5M
Monthly Active Users: 39M
Over 10B high scores

40. The Games App
The Games App is a preloaded application
on the home screen of BlackBerry 10. It is
the best position to promote your games!
As a central gaming experience on
BlackBerry it enhances social and viral
discovery of Scoreloop enabled games.
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41. Games App Feature Overview
Connect with other BlackBerry 10 gamers
Find friends on BBM
Discover your friends’ games
See friends' gaming activities
Compare gaming skills with friends
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42. Feature: See & Compare
See friends’ gaming activities.
Compare gaming skills with friends.
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43. Feature: Find
Find friends on BBM.
Other options available to find friends.
Choose from friends already playing
and invite others.
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44. Feature: Connect
Connect with other BlackBerry 10 gamers.
Invite by email and add your BBM contacts.
Receive achievement and challenge news
updates from friends and stay engaged.
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45. Feature: Discover
Discover your friends’ games.
Find the most popular games, your
friends’ favorites and all new social
games.
Download games directly from
BlackBerry World.
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46. The Scoreloop SDK
1) Integrate with the Games app for ultimate visibility on
BlackBerry 10
2) Make your game better with social features
Scoreloop SDK lets game developers integrate a
set of social gaming features into their games.
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47. Scoreloop Feature Overview
 User profile
 Leaderboard
 Achievements
 Challenges
 Data storage
 Default UI
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48. Feature: User Profile
Build a gaming identity that persists
across games.
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49. Feature: Challenge
Challenge friends directly from within
games. Choose an opponent, play a
game and submit a score. Wait for the
other player to finish his game.
Re-match to continue playing with the
same friend.
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50. Feature: Leaderboard
See global Leaderboards &
your friends’ ranking.
Compare gaming scores and
achievements and compete
with BBM friends to see who
is the best gamer.
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51. Feature: Default/Custom UIs
Create a custom UI for
challenges and leaderboards or
use the default UI to make it fast
and easy.
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52. Publish now to BlackBerry 10
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53. For More Information…
developer.blackberry.com/cascades

54. For More Information…
developer.blackberry.com/cascades

55. For More Information…
developer.blackberry.com/cascades

56. For More Information…
Devblog.blackberry.com

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Unity Game

58. Thank you.
JAM824
Christopher Saunders
David Patterson
September 27th, 2013