Implement the category hack & leaderboard ;)

I'm doing categories a little differently... I don't want people to have to navigate into a category before they can see games to play. Right now I'm thinking to have categories somewhere else (such as in a side menu or a drop down list), and to show a random selection of games on the front page. Once a user chooses a category, they get an ordered list - or they can choose to order all games by other criteria. (Times played, alphabetically, chronologically, etc.)

oh for the love of christ, it's gonna be ported to 3.5.... 3.5 i tell you... wow, well thats cheered up my day, never mind about the late credit card payment charge, or the hot chick who sent me some pictures of her in a freaking text file which took me ages to decode... this beats the lot...AYYY!!! cool..cant wait.

-b6

Tried making sure that the template installations are correct - they are... Any idea why I am not seeing challenges on the droplist?

Stephen

Begging for some help LOL ... Have taken a look through this thread and can`t seem to find an answer, and others having the same problem too by the sounds of it.

I installed everything as stated, however my games are not showing in the arcade. The permissions I have set up should allow me to see them.

I`ve just changed this from IBPro arcade, and recon to have removed all file edits I have changed when installing IBPro, but have done it after installing v3. I`m pretty sure this is something to do with it, just don`t know how to solve it. Any chance one of you experts can show me to the light :)

Excellent news, John! Have you by chance fixed the bugs in the 3.5 version for removed users where if they have scores and a MySQL error appears if you try to view that user's scores? I posted a fix "X" pages ago.

Also, is this taking full advantage of 3.5's hook system so there are no (or very limited) file/template edits?

ATTENTION PEEPS WHO CANT SEE THE GAMES

If you have had ibproarcade installed, you need to completely remove the templates that it installed using phpmyadmin (make sure you backup first), then re-install the templates for V3 arcade and your on a winner

It's new coded rather than a straight port, so we'll probably have a whole new crop of bugs. ;)

It's phrased and I've put hooks throughout - although I've probably missed a few, I'll have to go through everything before release.

It sounds as though you may be approaching a release soon. Are you still planning on releasing Videovie before? I know it's hard to tell with 3.5 not being gold yet, I'm just curious.

A week before I was going to release Videovie for 3.0.x they started beta testing 3.5, so I decided to hold off and wait for vB 3.5 to go gold before I ported it over.

In the meantime I've been working on the 3.5 version of the Arcade, which is in a working state right now. If push came to shove I could get it released within a couple of days, but I'm not doing that before 3.5 goes gold - so I'm using this time to add some new functionality and make improvements on the last version.