How to add a leaderboard, quests and a store to a web game

Four ways to add a leaderboard

The common mistake with the first two is trusting the number the browser sends. Anyone can open the developer tools and submit a score of one billion. A fair board needs a server that decides what counts.

Leaderboard

Ask the AI coder:

Add a weekly leaderboard by best score.

It installs the leaderboard system and teaches the game to submit the result. Then open Live Operations → v2 → Leaderboard in the dashboard and set:

• the round: a board repeats in cycles (for example every week), runs on a schedule or as a chain of rounds;
• how the score counts: the sum of all results, the best result, the best time or the last value;
• rewards: for rank at the end of the round, and points milestones inside it ("earn 1000 points this week").

Make it cheat-proof. A board takes a number from the game only through a ClientScore source, and that source has limits: a maximum per submission, per day and a pause between submissions. Set them to what a real player can achieve. If your best testers score 5,000 a round, a cap of 20,000 per submission stops nobody honest and blocks the obvious fakes.

Several boards can run at once: each enabled board is its own tab with its own round and rewards, for example a weekly board and an all-time board.

Quests

Quests are already in every new project. In Live Operations → v2 → Quest create a cycle and a few tasks:

• Cycles are tabs for players: daily, weekly, achievements, each with a timer to the next reset.
• Tasks count actions: "defeat 20 monsters", "win 3 rounds", "buy anything in the store".
• Chains: a quest can require another to be done first, which builds a short storyline.
• A points track with chests runs alongside, plus a bonus for finishing a group of tasks.

Then tell the AI coder what to count:

Count monsters_defeated every time a monster is defeated.

Good first set: three daily quests that take five minutes in total, one weekly quest that needs a few sessions, and achievements for milestones. Daily quests that take an hour feel like a chore and push players away.

Store

Ask the AI coder:

Add a shop.

Then in Live Operations → v2 → Store create offers and put them on a storefront. The store is a tree: storefront, sections, slots, offers. An offer is sold only through a slot, and a slot can rotate offers on a schedule, like a daily shop that every player sees the same way on every device.

What a price can be:

A free daily gift with a limit is the best first offer: it brings players to the store every day and costs you nothing.

Connect the three systems

The real effect comes when they feed each other:

• A quest for the store: "buy anything in the store" teaches new players where it is. The server counts purchases by itself.
• Store rewards for the top of the leaderboard: a frame, a skin or a chest that money cannot buy.
• A daily quest for a ranked round: players who would not compete on their own get a reason to try.
• Quest rewards in store currency: finishing tasks feeds the shop, and the shop feeds the next round.

How to tell it works

Watch three numbers in the game's analytics in the dashboard:

• how many players come back the next day: quests and login rewards should lift it;
• what share of players opened the store at least once: if almost nobody, make the free daily gift more visible;
• how many daily quests get finished: if very few, the tasks are too long.

Roll them out one by one

Each system's tab appears for players only after it is configured, so you can add them in any order without empty screens. A sensible order for a new game:

1. Quests first: they are already in the project and give players goals from day one.
2. Leaderboard next, once the scoring feels fair in playtests.
3. Store last, when players have something to spend on.

Settings are live data: you can change rewards, prices and limits in the dashboard without building the game again. If you are building with an agent instead of the AI coder, the same systems are available to it over MCP: see how to make a game with Claude Code. And when the store starts selling, read how to monetize a browser game.