vbProArcade v1.0 Flash Games Development

vbProArcade v1.0 Flash Games Development Thread

This thread is intended to provide support for those who wish to find new games for their Arcades, or wish to assist in the development of new games for vbProArcade, or wish to modify existing, open-source Flash games for use with vbProArcade.

Note to vbulletin.org moderators: I could not find an appropriate place for this thread, other than the Beta Hacks forum, so here it is. If you feel this should be moved somewhere else, by all means do so. An additional reason I posted it here was because, to my knowledge, only registered users can view this thread, which may contain hack code at one point or another.

For the hack itself, you will need to see this thread. The Flash Development thread that you see here is just that, and should only be for the discussion of creating/modifying games to work with vbProArcade. Any discussion of or support for the hack itself will be conducted in the other thread.

For documentation on how to modify a game to work with vbProArcade, please see the vbProArcade documentation, which will always be contained in this post. I will try and update this post whenever I update the documentation itself.

A list of current games can you find in the second post.

Before you modify ANY game's source or post it here, you must MAKE SURE that you have the author's permission to modify and redistribute the code, compiled or otherwise.

As games are modified and posted, I will update this post to list them, so that people running vbProArcade may find and install them more easily.

[Martin64]

Originally posted by eckels2
Tried adding it to Afterblur with the query you gave, DJ, and was returned a whole list of errors. Before I start listing them here, has anyone else been successful with adding this game?

Did that for me as well until I clicked quote on Dark Jim's post and grabbed the query from there, I don't know why it doesn't seem to display properly through the postbit (I tested it like 5 times before quoting and being able to run the query).

Well...test that. Simon is up and work on my boards as well, nice job Dark Jim.

[BrAinZ]

Yep.. Instructions for Simon seemed to work fine via the Control panel.

Looks to be working OK so far !

THANKS !!!

[BrAinZ]

How about Hexxagon, has anyone tried to get that working ?

[Dark Jim]

Originally posted by Martin64


Did that for me as well until I clicked quote on Dark Jim's post and grabbed the query from there, I don't know why it doesn't seem to display properly through the postbit (I tested it like 5 times before quoting and being able to run the query).

Well...test that. Simon is up and work on my boards as well, nice job Dark Jim.

Hmm yeah that must be it because I exported it from phpmyadmin and copied that into my post.

[Lanigironu]

Here's a link to a freely-available Frogger clone if anybody wants to convert it:

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Games...5654/index.php

[nymyth]

1. save game icon to desktop
2. save crown icon to desktop
3. upload simon.swf to your games folder
4. go to the arcade admin panel and click on add game and enter the following information :

Game Identifier : hexxagonfinal
Game Title : Hexxagon
Game Description : * describe it in your own words *
- browse to the champion icon on desktop
Champion text for Simon Says : Hexxagon Champion
Champion text color : #FF0000
- browse to game icon on desktop
Filename : hexxagonfinal.swf
Game Hash Offset : 5
Score Return Variable : $hexxagonfinalscore

and then HTML Code For Game :

PHP Code:

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-4553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="375" HEIGHT="285">
<PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="$vpa_gameurl?location=$vpa_bburl&gamename=$game&gamehash=$gamehash&s=$session[sessionhash]">
<PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME="menu" VALUE="false">
<EMBED src="$vpa_gameurl" WIDTH="375" HEIGHT="285" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED></OBJECT> 


Should be all good:

ps..oh by the way people

PHP Code:

// set up vars to return
vpaver = "100B2";
scorevariable = score;
action = "gameover";
game = gamename;
score_loc = location + "/proarcade.php";

// this needs to match the Admin CP value
// and should be between 0 and 31
hashoffset = 5;

// do security shuffle to return newhash
subhash1 = gamehash.substr(0,hashoffset);
subhash2 = gamehash.substr(hashoffset);
newhash = subhash2.concat(subhash1);

// redirect back to vbProArcade
getURL (score_loc, "_self", "POST"); 


when you open up the fla file.....go down to game...in the last keyframe drop that code in right before the stop function.....anyone have any problem with flash lemme know...ill help u out.....if you guys want games changed....put up a link to where i can get the source file and ill fix it up for u...ENJOY

NOTE: ILL PUT UP THE .FLA and .SWF when i get it to work...not redirecting to comments and scores

[Da`Nacho]

Originally posted by nymyth
Game Identifier : hexxagonfinal
Game Title : Hexxagon
Game Description : * describe it in your own words *
- browse to the champion icon on desktop
Champion text for Simon Says : Hexxagon Champion
Champion text color : #FF0000
- browse to game icon on desktop
Filename : hexxagonfinal.swf
Game Hash Offset : 5
Score Return Variable : $hexxagonfinalscore

Umm you got a fixed .swf for hexxagon to go with this?

[nymyth]

alright people...sorry theres something that i cant figure out....the game works on the site...but when the game is over it doesnt direct me the comment page and the users score doesnt show up...anyone know whats up??

Peace

for..this hexxagon and simon

now i know the variable within both games is $score however in the proarcade.php the variable seems to be $theScore....so i went in and changed around the variables within the games to follow suit.....but it still doesnt work...any ideas

[Link14716]

I found a game that would be a great addition to arcades everywhere (and the death of 56k for that matter, the SWF alone is almost 1 MB, the FLA is over 4 :speechless:.

It's a nice 3D space shooter. Maybe someone can get it to work soon.

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Games...7722/index.php

Or maybe even get the alien attack version of it up too! (This is for all the 56k people, the file is much much smaller.)

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Games...6993/index.php

[xxxsaint]

alright people...sorry theres something that i cant figure out....the game works on the site...but when the game is over it doesnt direct me the comment page and the users score doesnt show up...anyone know whats up??

I've been trying different variations myself but so far I've had no luck. Here's the .fla file in case someone else out there would like to give us a hand at it.