DayZ Standalone - Data Output/Realtime API from the game.

[SteveMac555 37]

Greetings,

Firstly let me explain what I would like to suggest for the DayZ standalone game.

• DayZ Game to Output/Broadcast certain statistics about the game, environment and character in a specific format to be used with third party applications.
  

The data would NOT come from the Hive database, or even the connected server. It would come from the actual game running on your PC as it receives the data. This would have NO performance implications and would be completely optional to turn on or off the data output.

Why would this be useful?

I am interested in developing home-made electronic devices with the Arduino and similar platforms. What I think would be a unique feature is be to be able to read the information being sent out from the game and display it in a physical format.

This could be a small LCD screen, LEDs, Sounds or even a hud display on an Android/iOS device and have this sat in front of you whilst you play. It would also allow for data to be displayed on external LCD screens, G15/G19 keyboard screens and even the possibility of writing Teamspeak plugins to broadcast your stats to other group members. The list is endless.

This has been done before but only with certain genres of games, such as racing games which can show your data/speed/track etc. on an Android/iOS phone or tablet at the side of you whilst you play.

Not sure how many community members are into electronics and/or developing mobile applications but I thought this would be a good idea and wouldn't take up much development time at all.