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.

[Da`Nacho]

Today at 03:44 PM tkeil69575 said this in Post #319
has anyone been abe to resolve the whos online problem (ie. the one that shows you playing a game when in fact your reading some thread?) my users have found out that this isnt right and its annoying

greets
tina

It will be fixed in the next version of the arcade, but you can fix it by not using the $vbchampicon and just using the $vbchamtext by itself. If you want the icon just change the champion text so that it has an HTML img src link to the icon image on your web server.

[Link14716]

Today at 01:24 AM Erwin said this in Post #318


Plasmanaut v2? Where did you get that?

I released it a few posts back as Plasma v2. Dunno if the ZIP is on my new server yet, though. Lemme check.

EDIT: Yep, the ZIP is there.

Here's my post with it: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...984#post366984

Here's the download link: http://www.vggmn.com/addons/plasma.zip

[Mr L]

Can anyone advise me on how to upload thumbnails or the crowns.

I can browse to they, but when I click on upload they are not there when refreshed.

Many thanks.

[Erwin]

Today at 10:21 AM Link14716 said this in Post #321

EDIT: Yep, the ZIP is there.

Here's the download link: http://www.vggmn.com/addons/plasma.zip

That ZIP is 4.24 MB in size!

Edit: The game looks great. Big though... I'll trial it on my site... I'm just concerned of the bandwidth needed to host it

[Link14716]

Today at 11:06 PM Erwin said this in Post #323


That ZIP is 4.24 MB in size!

Which is why it is on my server instead of attached here. It's one huge game.

[Jakor Sevel]

asteroids works nice, and for that basketball game, provide a link to that person's forums.

[BrAinZ]

Yesterday at 11:23 PM HLodder said this in Post #322
Can anyone advise me on how to upload thumbnails or the crowns.

I can browse to they, but when I click on upload they are not there when refreshed.

Many thanks.

This confused me for a while. Make sure the graphics are in GIF format, as they seem to disappear if in BMP format.

[dstruct2k]

BMP format images aren't the best for the web anyways... You'd be a lot better off using GIFs for everything... You don't lose a lot of quality, you have 256 colors to work with, and they usually are under 1 or 2kb, as long as they aren't animated.

BMPs have a tendancy to not show up in some browsers... I think this is intentional, because even a 50px by 50px BMP can be well over 5kb, when if you save that same image as a GIF, it is only 1 or 2kb, and looks virtually identical. Browsers are usually coded to be as fast and efficient as possible, so some browsers may just decide to not show BMPs at all.

[Mr L]

Cheers.

All working now...

[Osmosis]

Hi all. Just wanted to chirp up and say nice work on the games. I've put several of them on my forums an kept the ones my users are enjoying.... Hexxagon is by far the favorite and there are some heated competitions going on for that one.

Anyway, I am a flash designer by trade, and I will convert and post any game you can give me the source files for... provided its a game that I will also be using, or if I have some spare time.