Unity game communication with a web server leaderboard

In this recipe, we create a Unity game client that can communicate, via UI buttons, with our web server leaderboard from the previous recipe:

Figure 10.22: Screenshot showing a Unity game retrieving scores from a web server

Getting ready

Since this scene contains several UI elements and the code of the recipe is the communication with the PHP scripts and SQL database, in the 10_09 folder, we have provided a Unity package called UnityLeaderboardClient, containing a scene with everything set up for the Unity project.

How to do it...

To create a Unity game that communicates with the web server leaderboard, perform the following steps:

1. Create a new 2D Unity project.
2. Import the Unity package provided, UnityLeaderboardClient.
3. Run the scene provided.
4. Ensure that your PHP leaderboard is up and running.
5. If you are not running locally (localhost:8000), you’ll need to update...