Integration with RetroAchievements

[Shatur]

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Describe the problem requiring a solution

RetroAchievements is a FOSS service that integrates achievements into old games. It was originally designed for emulators, but it has started adding achievements to standalone games. I think fheroes2 would be a perfect fit 🙂

Describe the possible solution

I'm not affiliated with RetroAchievements, just a regular player. I think it would require direct communication with their team to provide an API for it. The achievements could be developed by the community (as with Terraria) or by the developers (as with Horizon XI).

Additional info

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[ihhub]

Hi @Shatur , at the moment the core team has no capacity to do additional work outside the project scope. If somebody would like to help then they are more than welcome.

[winterheart]

Probably there must be implemented some internal Achievements framework that can be integrated with other SDKs on demand (Steam, GOG, RA etc).
As far as I know, RetroAchievements has strict requirements on integration (https://docs.retroachievements.org/general/standalone-support.html) and this would not be easy on organization level.

[ihhub]

This integration most likely won't happen because the requirements are made only for non-open source games - games that cannot be easily modified. This isn't the case with the fheroes2 engine.

At very least as of now we are moving this to the Discussion section.