Re: the multi-player chess (Humpa-Chess)
Yes, I have it installed on my site. www.ez-company.net Works great, very popular addition. :) Obviously, it was recoded quite a bit. We integrated it into the site and we use vbPortal.

Do you have FLAs for any of those? I'll modify them.

Apok2002: Well done on the chess integration. It looks and works great!

Thank you, but I didn't do anything but beg my buddy KhanSW to get it integrated correctly. He's the brain behind it. :)

There are few changes (aesthetically) I'd like to see, but it's further down on the priority list. :)

I'm looking forward to this ProArcade hack though. My members will love it (esp since they are all gamers).

Sweet! I'm jealous. This makes me *almost* want to return to vBPortal... I wish I had time to port it to pure vB...

Progress update: I just finished coding the remainder of the "Champion System" into vbProArcade.

What this basically does is display text under a user's title if they are the champion of one of the games in the arcade. The system can be turned on/off completely, or selectively on/off on a per-game basis. The champion text and color can also be changed on a per-game basis, and when a new game is added, they are set to default values of "Gamename Champion" and your forum default font color for that game.

Just like (most) of the rest of the hack, the system is all automated, and will automatically move from user-to-user as champions change. There are probably a few more places in the forum where this can be added -- right now it is only in showthread/postbit.

Attached is an example screenshot of the admin panel and a "champion" user's post.

Other stuff I did today:

- fixed the number format so it displays correctly with commas
- implemented the admin-selectable scoreboard icons for the main arcade
- implemented the admin-selectable king icons for the main arcade & scoreboards
- updated the Who's Online display to include users in the main arcade page
- reordered and cleaned up some stuff in the admin panel
- renamed and reorganized the templates to make them easier to figure out
- added links back to the main arcade page from the play/scoreboard pages
- removed a few redundant queries and broke some code into separate functions

So that's where we're at right now. There are only a couple more minor things to take care of and then I can start packaging the code for a full beta release. I would anticipate no later than Saturday night for getting that out there, maybe Sunday daytime at the absolute latest.

Looking forward to it. :)

Is there a way to make it also put a crown beside their champion title that is inserted below the user title ? I've added the crown-addon for tetris and that keeps everyone fighting over it , the crown graphic.

yeah the crown thing is v. cool, that would be good for this :D

I can't wait for this to be released, looks so promising!