Major Additions - [DBTech] vBArcade v2 (vB5)

vBArcade is a professional modular flash arcade game system. Easily converts your old favorites, and finds thousands more with the click of a button.

This new modern arcade uses AJAX to enhance the playing experience and encourage users to compete both locally and globally among participating sites. Streamlined import and editing managers put games from mochi, v3arcade, ibproarcade and more into your arcade with ease. Fine-tuned access and scoring tools allow you to keep competition fresh and exciting, as well as social network tools to bring new users in to your site!

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Documentation
https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/docs/vbarcade

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Major Features:

Modular Game Handling: Currently supports games from pnflash, ibproarcade, v3arcade, mochi, (plus armor, kongregate, flashgamedistribution, spilgames in pro) and more can be added with a single file.

Access and Score Tools: Set exactly when users can play certain games, and for how often. Archive extra or old scores to allow room for new champions.

Social and Global: Not only can games be sent to all the major social networks, but participating sites can rank their scores together and display champions everywhere.

Beautiful Modern Design: Streamlined and professional, using AJAX to enhance and simplify the playing experience, like searching, replays, full screen and cinema mode, and category tabs.

Fast Paced Competition: Ultimate tournament system that rewards fast players while mitigating no-shows, allowing all your matches to finish strong, and everyone has fun.

Lite

Friendly Challenges

• Automatic 1 round tournament of 2 players, with preset config
• Initiated from simple username prompt, while playing a game
• Can disable certain games from eligibility
• Auto-pruned if either player declines invitation

"Most Trophies" Module

• Lists top 3 players and how many trophies they hold
• Displays avatar and link to member profile
• Displays username if avatars are turned off
• "Show Avatars" module configuration
• Respects user's choice to hide avatars if applicable

"Longest Players" Module

• Lists top 3 players and how long they've played
• Displays avatar and link to member profile
• Displays username if avatars are turned off
• "Show Avatars" module configuration
• "Maximum Players to Show" module configuration
• Respects user's choice to hide avatars if applicable

"You Might Like" Module

• Displays a semi-random game similar to existing one
• Fetches random game from the same category if one exists
• "Show Game Icon" module configuration

Global Scoring Integration

• Synchronises scoring with the Global Scoring system
• Displays Global Champion if enabled

Commenting

• Add / Edit comments for your scores on games
• AJAX-powered

Score Alerts

• Receive Email and/or PM notifications when your score is beaten
• Respects vBulletin's notification settings
• Contains link to the game for quick play

Score Tracking

• latest and champion scores
• most winners and longest players
• average scores, plays and playtime
• yourself and locally
• local rankings

General / Other

• Modern streamlined appearance with AJAX for replay and searching
• Tweet, Like, Pin, or +1 a game
• Easy game resizing
• Ajax ratings
• Set descriptions, instructions, controls, keywords - even authors and copyrights
• Assign games to multiple categories - with icons descriptions
• Manually or one-button mass install games from any source
• existing arcade installation (plus scores and settings): ibProArcade, v3 Arcade
• package upload or ftp directory: pnFlash, ibProArcade v3 Arcade, Mochi
• featured games feed: Mochi
• Obtain local scores from supported APIs: ibProArcade, v3 Arcade, pnFlash, Mochi
• Use time played as backup score when unsupported
• Retrieve scores from global network of participating sites
• See global champions with links
• Automatically archive old or duplicate scores

Additional Features (Pro)

Tournaments

• Any local scoring game, with unique titles and descriptions
• Shown as a detailed horizontal tree, while playing the game
• Auto-prune tournaments that don't reach minimum players
• Convert related settings from other arcades
• Invite/Reminder Email/PM alerts, with notifications
• Invite specific users and/or allow specific usergroups to join
• Optionally auto-confirm all invited players to begin immediately
• Create recurring tournaments and optionally rematch players
• Optional privacy hides tournaments from nonparticipants
• Track all matches, with results and standings, from admincp
• Easily search, sort, begin, clone, mass delete from admincp
• Optionally disallow practicing a game a player is competing in

Tournament Matches

• Each tournament sets number of play attempts per match
• Active match highlighted, with clear status messages
• Playing all attempts optional, can be manually forfeit/completed
• Enforced time limit per match, or automatically forfeit/completed
• Notifications throughout, or optional reminder Email/PM alert
• Remaining attempts shown with live countdown for time limit
• Select between best, latest, or average attempt as match score
• Optionally hide scores until match is completed
• Match ties broken by first player who reached that score
• Replays automatically switch to the relevant match with AJAX
• Random player chosen to advance in a double forfeit
• Fast players can advance to future rounds and pair up early
• Optionally count tournament scores towards regular leaderboards

Group

• vBArcade exclusive round-robin format
• Every player matches every other player once
• Player with the best win record at the end declared champion
• Supports any number of players, including odd
• Begins at end of tournament countdown, if minimum is met
• Players paired sequentially, then randomly with unplayed players
• Players can move to new opponent even if match not decided

Knockout

• Familiar multi-round format
• Players pair up, winner of each match advances
• Winner of the final round declared champion
• Currently available up to 6 rounds (64 players)
• Begins immediately on finally required player joining
• Players who win their match can play next match prior to pairing

Score Alerts

• Automatically create a new thread or post on highscore
• Uses vBulletin APIs to insert the content
• Works with vBulletin features like commenting

Category Passwords

• Set passwords to your categories
• AJAX input password before game list loads
• No reloads necessary

General / Other

• Submit your scores to the global network for global display
• Play games from Spil Games, FlashGameDistribution, Armor and Kongregate
• Get local scoring support from GamerSafe games
• Show off the legacy champion even if you archived all scores
• Cinema mode darkens the screen while you play
• Mark games on your personal favorites list
• Retrieve and display global stats to compare
• Get all of your scores ranked globally, with function to sync local scores

Features Still Missing (Lite)

General / Other

• post your score to your Facebook wall
  FB integration with vB5 isn't 100% complete yet, this will be re-examined when that time comes.
• Show off your trophy collection in your postbit
  The vB5 postbit isn't designed to be as cluttered as the vB4 postbit can be, so this will be on the shelf for the time being.

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of all pages which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[smile2me]

Import Games under DBtech-vbarcade side panel

[gmhastings]

Hi there,
I would love to get this working on a forum I'm intending to upgrade later to vB5.x . I'm using 5.0.4 at the moment.

I installed following the instructions (now actually for the 4th time after restoring) but when I click on the Arcade option, it's just showing me the forum index again (but without the usual 'NEW TOPICS
WHO'S ONLINE
MARK CHANNELS READ
MEMBER LIST' at the top before the Forum Index is shown.

Any ideas please?

I was thinking maybe it's something to do with a mod rewrite type thing / route parameter thing but I still can't find it. Alternatively, maybe I'm missing a file.

I hope you can suggest some other things I can look into.

Hopeful thanks in advance

[DragonByte Tech]

I am currently in the process of re-testing our mods for 5.0.4 compatibility.

Meanwhile, you may be able to fix it by clicking Repair Cache in the AdminCP - that will install the necessary elements on the page.

Fillip

[gmhastings]

Hi Fillip,

Thanks very much for your reply.

I did try the Repair Cache on the AdminCP for the Arcade and I tried the Clear System Cache but unfortunately, it still shows the forum.

Incidentally, it's installed on a subdomain rather than www. (just in case that makes a difference).

Thanks
Gene

[DragonByte Tech]

I don't think it would, it's probably an issue with installing the new page content. We'll see once the update is live


Fillip

[gmhastings]

OK .. Also, whilst I can Import games via the AdminCP, again if I attempt to play one (from the AdminCP) it gives me a

'Topic not found. You may have followed an invalid link or the topic may have been deleted or moved to another forum.' error

which makes me think something about reading the URL is not working correctly.

Anyway, of course I'l happily wait for your update.

[DragonByte Tech]

<font size="3">vBArcade v2.0.2 Alpha 4</font>
Change: 5.0.4 is now the minimum required version
Change: Changed module wrapper to use the built-in template
Fix: Fixed various other CSS change issues
Fix: The avatar for the Welcome block is now the correct size

Fillip

[gmhastings]

Thanks Fillip. The arcade page now shows correctly.

However, now when I submit a score (from an IBProArcade game at least) / when the game ends (I tried a few different games all from a previous IBProArcade install) and when the page returns it says that "You appear to be playing a game; starting this might forfeit that session."

I checked the 'sessions' table and it only showed the 'start' time. If I click 'Cancel Session' after - it does update the sessions table, but it's not recording any scores.

I tried quickly looking for a game from Mochi that I could submit a local score (I assume that's what it means, but I couldn't see anything that submitted a score - or possibly the game was, but it wasn't working for some reason).

Here are few recent log entries. I hope these might help discover why the scores are not being submitted.

[Wed Aug 14 12:19:38 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Undefined index: bridge in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/scores.php on line 37, referer: SITEURL/arcade.php?gameid=kenokaibpg&tourn=&do=load&securi tytoken=1376478995-208fde37f6297e0202ab9f01e2fa15aac87cf6e1
[Wed Aug 14 12:19:38 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant vB_Api_State - assumed 'vB_Api_State' in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/scores.php on line 45, referer: SITEURL/arcade.php?gameid=kenokaibpg&tourn=&do=load&securi tytoken=1376478995-208fde37f6297e0202ab9f01e2fa15aac87cf6e1
[Wed Aug 14 12:19:39 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: anchor in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/play.php on line 19, referer: SITEURL/vbarcade/play/kenokaibpg
[Wed Aug 14 12:19:39 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Undefined index: pagenum in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/play.php on line 22, referer: SITEURL/vbarcade/play/kenokaibpg
[Wed Aug 14 12:19:47 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: anchor in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/play.php on line 19, referer: SITEURL/vbarcade/play/kenokaibpg
[Wed Aug 14 12:19:47 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Undefined index: pagenum in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/play.php on line 22, referer: SITEURL/vbarcade/play/kenokaibpg
[Wed Aug 14 12:23:19 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Undefined index: bridge in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/scores.php on line 37, referer: SITEURL/arcade.php?gameid=kenokaibpg&tourn=&do=load&securi tytoken=1376479187-f17f4acfa4f7c2242172c7b1ecc1c95d8a567b7e
[Wed Aug 14 12:23:19 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant vB_Api_State - assumed 'vB_Api_State' in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/scores.php on line 45, referer: SITEURL/arcade.php?gameid=kenokaibpg&tourn=&do=load&securi tytoken=1376479187-f17f4acfa4f7c2242172c7b1ecc1c95d8a567b7e
[Wed Aug 14 12:23:20 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: anchor in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/play.php on line 19, referer: SITEURL/vbarcade/play/kenokaibpg
[Wed Aug 14 12:23:20 2013] [error] [client IPclient] PHP Notice: Undefined index: pagenum in FILEPATHTOWEB/forum/core/packages/dbtechvbarcade/route/arcade/play.php on line 22, referer: SITEURL/vbarcade/play/kenokaibpg


Thanks very much for your time making this mod

G

[DragonByte Tech]

When you import games, there should be a small message and a golden crown that says "Supports local scoring" if the game does indeed support it.

By default, Notices are suppressed - what version of PHP are you running? Does it hide the notices if you change the default error_reporting level to E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_STRICT ?

Fillip

[Baigo]

I'm using games supporting local scoring. Scores are not really saved locally.