Last jam, I made a little arcade game that I am really proud of. It performed way better than I expected, especially in innovation! However, it's missing one nice-to-have that I just didn't have enough time to add: an online leaderboard. I think it would have been awesome to see the scores real players achieved. And who knows, maybe seeing the current highscore could motivate some players to try one more time to beat it.

Anyway, since I had a little time on my hands (and knowing that I wouldn't during the jam), I decided to write a very small NodeJS application that should handle all of my score tracking needs. It has a simple REST interface that works well with Godot's HTTPRequest (and probably most other ways to make HTTP requests).

You can find the entire thing here if you want to use it yourself: https://github.com/leogeier/highscore-backend (though you need to host it somewhere)