How long does it take to implement a free online highscore system for your small (Unity) game project? In my experience, with Lootlockerit took ~90 minutes.

Originally I did not want to meddle around with something like tracking scores online - felt just too much overhead for a 72hrs game jam. Besides, I've never done something like that. Though, after I finished my game in ~48hrs, I was just curious to "take a look".

Turned out that it was a fairly straight forward implementation with the step by step tutorial and documentation on the Lootlocker web interface. Debugging is simple, as the LootLockerSDKManager in Unity provides enough debug, e.g. like info for a "missing leaderboard" - which needs to be created in the webinterface of your Lootlocker account.

My finished basic score manager for handling the connection, data retrieving and sending had 100 lines of code.

You may stuck here and there for a minute, but nothing what causes a head-scratching "what's the error? have no clue!"

It could be, that I was simply very lucky with the implementation. But no matter what: It was for sure not a task as big and as frightening, as it originally sounded: "Implement an online highscore tracking system for your game"