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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[DragonByte Tech]

vBArcade v2.0.2 Patch Level 1

Bug Fixes And Issue Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with importing from Spil Games

Fillip

[kylek]

Just upgraded to v2.0.2 PL 1 and went to check out Spil games, get this now:

PHP Warning: file_get_contents(http://publishers.spilgames.com/rss?...1&limit=0,25): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 NOT FOUND in ..../dbtech/vbarcade/systems/spl.php on line 53

[DragonByte Tech]

Spil Gaming is a Pro-only feature, you'll need to post @ our Pro support forums


Fillip

[popowich]

I am not able to import the latest XML after updating the files.

I get a screen with the following:

PHP Code:

# Place this code into the top of http://www.my-site.com/.htaccess so certain games can process scores, then try importing again: 


There is nothing special listed after that, it's a blank after that comment, and then the rest of my existing .htaccess file.

I do have the the arcade's htaccess block in my file.

It doesn't matter if I give apache access to update my .htaccess or not.

[Alan_SP]

Yes, that's the error I too receive and couldn't make this mod to work on my site.

For some reason, newer versions doesn't work even if htaccess is changed according to instructions. Further info on my experience you can read this post.

[kylek]

Originally Posted by popowich

I am not able to import the latest XML after updating the files.

I get a screen with the following:

PHP Code:

# Place this code into the top of http://www.my-site.com/.htaccess so certain games can process scores, then try importing again: 


There is nothing special listed after that, it's a blank after that comment, and then the rest of my existing .htaccess file.

I do have the the arcade's htaccess block in my file.

It doesn't matter if I give apache access to update my .htaccess or not.

Either manually add the code to your forums .htaccess or chmod the .htaccess to 777, run the import again, then when its done change the .htaccess permissions back to what they were.

[popowich]

I tried both of those before posting here. Neither is the problem.

[eriktran84]

i am so confused about the permission setttings, so on default, you can set all groups to view it, then i set certain groups to None and set it as important to override the default, then i set the rest of the groups to able to play and set it as important, but how do i set them to record and score also ?

[fred86]

Originally Posted by eriktran84

i am so confused about the permission setttings, so on default, you can set all groups to view it, then i set certain groups to None and set it as important to override the default, then i set the rest of the groups to able to play and set it as important, but how do i set them to record and score also ?

Change the setting to score.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by popowich

I tried both of those before posting here. Neither is the problem.

In that case, edit the product XML file and remove that check


Fillip