Major Additions - [DBTech] vBArcade v2 (vB4)

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. 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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Major Features:

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.

Notable Features (Lite)

• Modern streamlined appearance with AJAX for replay and searching
• Tweet, Like, Pin, or +1 a game, and post your score to your Facebook wall
• Forum block for latest scores/champions or any number sorted games
• Easy game resizing and full screen
• Featured and Suggested games while playing
• Ajax ratings, and commenting
• Set descriptions, instructions, controls, keywords
  • even authors and copyrights
• Assign games to multiple categories
  • with icons descriptions
• Use time played as backup score when other scoring is unsupported
• Retrieve scores from global network of participating sites
  • See global champions with links
• Automatically archive old or duplicate scores
  • Get alerts when your scores are beaten
• Show off your trophy collection in your postbit
• Maintain arcade statistics overall, per user, and per game
  • latest and champion scores
  • most winners and longest players
  • average scores, plays and playtime
  • yourself and locally
  • local rankings

• Tournaments
  • Overall
    • 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
    • Dedicated tournaments page with stats and personal standings
    • Game specific tournaments shown on tab, while playing game
    • Latest tournament shown on arcade portal
    • Invite/Reminder Email/PM alerts, with notifications
  • 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
  • (Pro/Lite*) 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
    • 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

* Lite version limited to friendly challenge tournaments

Additional Features (Pro)

• Submit your scores to the global network for global display
• Show off the legacy champion even if you archived all scores
• Automatically create a new thread/post on highscore
• 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
• Set passwords to your categories

• Tournaments
  • Overall
    • Live countdowns shown for tournaments set in the future
    • 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
  • Matches
    • 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

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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

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

[monkeyboy1916]

I'm interested in using this Arcade system, but I'm having 2 issues.

One is the obvious IE problems, which has already been mentioned for the most part.

The second, could there possibly be a way in the future to set a global "max" width for flash games? I see there's an option for the max for the increase/decrease options after the flash game loads, but I have a fixed width site, and half of the time by default games tend to break my style.

I know I could edit each and every game to fit in with my style, but surely there could be a simpler option that won't break fixed styles on it's own?

Thanks!

[Darkwaltz4]

There is currently no option for that, but you could try putting some css

[woffie]

Is this supposed to be better than V3arcade? I don't see where it is. Looks very similar.

[Darkwaltz4]

Its not "supposed" to be - its my own take on the arcade addon

[monkeyboy1916]

The option "Maximum Postbit Trophies" doesn't seem to be working. I've set it to 4 and it still displays the 7 trophies I've gained from testing out the arcade. I also setup the arcade on my test board to see if it was some sort of conflict from my main board, but it still has the same problem =/

Any ideas?

[shuuk]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Edit the default any game/usergroups permission to have None access.

Then create a new permission with the usergroups you want to give access to, and set to Play or Record or Score (see description for differences)

im blind :/ thank you works now

[SocialNetworkBuzz]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

We've discussed it internally and decided to add an option to remove the hivelocity part of the footer for anyone who wishes to on the lite version - we plan to extend this to our other mods with the same footer as they are updated.

Anything to make an extra buck these days. Whatever happened to that vB community that released stuff because they enjoyed coding? Now-a-days it just seems everything is bloated with links to purchase branding free options or extra "pro" features you have to pay extra for. You never saw this sort of thing back in to the vB2.x days. I agree Paul, this is poor etiquette and a rule should be made about forcing links with nothing to do with the mod.

In a nutshell, this arcade looks great, but I will not be installing it as I won't put a commercial link on my community site. I also own a hosting firm and even refuse to put a powered by link to my own business on my site. I really hope you reconsider forcing this as I'm sure others feel the same and past by this great add-on as the result,

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by SocialNetworkBuzz

In a nutshell, this arcade looks great, but I will not be installing it as I won't put a commercial link on my community site. I also own a hosting firm and even refuse to put a powered by link to my own business on my site. I really hope you reconsider forcing this as I'm sure others feel the same and past by this great add-on as the result,

This is now an option for you to easily disable if you wish It has always been intended as a way to support us for the free lite version if you have no intention of getting the pro one - because we make sure our lite versions arent useless "demo" quality!

Originally Posted by monkeyboy1916

The option "Maximum Postbit Trophies" doesn't seem to be working. I've set it to 4 and it still displays the 7 trophies I've gained from testing out the arcade. I also setup the arcade on my test board to see if it was some sort of conflict from my main board, but it still has the same problem =/

Any ideas?

Edit the vBArcade - Render Postbit Trophies plugin, find:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['dbtech_vbarcade_postbits'] == ++$i) break; 


replace with

PHP Code:

if ($this->registry->options['dbtech_vbarcade_postbits'] <= $i++) break; 


[monkeyboy1916]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Edit the vBArcade - Render Postbit Trophies plugin, find:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['dbtech_vbarcade_postbits'] == ++$i) break; 


replace with

PHP Code:

if ($this->registry->options['dbtech_vbarcade_postbits'] <= $i++) break; 


Works great! Thanks =)

[glen290]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Its not "supposed" to be - its my own take on the arcade addon

I think it looks far nice then the v3 arcade addon, and one of the best features is that when you enter your high score, it still stays on the game screen.