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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[rknight111]

Originally Posted by LLent

scores wont save even after i did all that is in this thread ... i will not give access to my admin or server but need help fixing this issue tell me what i can do thanks ..

i am running vb 4.1.7

Im having the exact same issue, as well as before the newest update it was centered and lined up on my system now its all screwed up.

[LLent]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

I dont mean to sound flippant, but... you will never know if your issue is fixed because you nor I will be able to identify what it is, to determine if I inadvertently fix, unless you keep it installed and up to date to check periodically. At least agree you are being illogical Good luck elsewhere I suppose.

Please i have shown you much respect the fact that i wont let you have access to my website acp and or server should not make anyone upset ...from reading all the responses in this thread a lot of peeps have this same issue and it looks like that you have been in many admin cps to fix this issue one would think with the info that you gathered that you may have come up with options for those that are having this issue to try ,cause this seems like is the common issue with this product for some peeps ..

now of course if you are going to pay my server costs and vb license by all means i would give you access

[Darkwaltz4]

Well, the success ratio for this addon doesn't seem so bleak despite the handful of people who have had scoring problems, which is why I have a troubleshooting guide in the first place.

All of them have since been addressed with updates and patches, but I cannot delete their obsolete posts to clear up that impression. I was able to arrive at the solutions by seeing what their unique situations were. A few happened to be from the same bugs, but again my troubleshooting guide has many bullets to try because of the many unique scenarios so far.

I'm not upset, just concerned you will not be able to get much help in general if that is your policy towards standard support cycles. It is only coincidence that I am the perhaps the first person to be spending this much time discussing it with you, but you'll have the same problem with support for other addons eventually.

Your mechanic can only give you a short list of stuff to figure out why your car isn't running, and if you try them all and don't give him your keys to try it out himself, there's not much hope in getting your car fixed.

I don't want to simply write you off and ignore you from now on, because I'm really not trying to be rude to you heck, if it made you more comfortable and got your problems fixed, I would even be willing to sign some sort of contract in private.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by LLent

Please i have shown you much respect the fact that i wont let you have access to my website acp and or server should not make anyone upset ...from reading all the responses in this thread a lot of peeps have this same issue and it looks like that you have been in many admin cps to fix this issue one would think with the info that you gathered that you may have come up with options for those that are having this issue to try ,cause this seems like is the common issue with this product for some peeps ..

now of course if you are going to pay my server costs and vb license by all means i would give you access

Heya,

I'm not sure where you feel John was upset - He was simply making the point that there almost certainly won't BE a "fix" for the issue - since a) we have no idea what is causing your issue and b) there is no global issue with the product - hundreds of sites are running vBArcade with the feature working just fine.

95% of the time the instructions in the thread work, the 5% of the time they DON'T work it is because of a conflict somewhere. It could be a setting, a conflicting modification, something outdated on the server etc. We have no way of knowing without actually being able to access the server and check it out.

I'm not really sure what you meant by " if you are going to pay my server costs and vb license by all means i would give you access" - Us taking the time to come to your site and fix the issue unique to your server is us helping you :P

Not granting us access is your prerogative of course, but considering as a company we count companies as large as Gearbox Software as clients and sites such as mmo-champion as clients you could safely assume your site would be safe in our hands =)

In any case we genuinely do wish you the best in finding something that will better suit your needs, no one is "upset" at you by any means so i'm glad to clear up that misconception =).

Regards,

Iain

[John Lester]

Love the mod Quick question, how do I get the navtab to open in a new window?

[John Lester]

Wouldn't save the edit

In the arcade page where it shows online users, the names are back to back without any spacing. How can I fix this?

[John Lester]

Ok I'm trying to find out if anyone else is experiencing this scenario that I currently am.

Some of my members can play the games I have installed, some can not. The games simply don't load (they don't even load the advet, but they can play the same game at mochigames without any issues).

It's not a permissions problem as I have been able to play any game on any account (admin mod member etc etc).

Flash and javascript are enabled (in a skype meeting with some members), cookies have been cleared, and as far as I can tell the ad site (url) isn't blocked.

EDIT: have tried with multiple browsers as well

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by rknight111

Im having the exact same issue, as well as before the newest update it was centered and lined up on my system now its all screwed up.

Do you have any modified arcade templates prior to the update? I will tend to your PM shortly, thanks!

Originally Posted by John Lester

Love the mod Quick question, how do I get the navtab to open in a new window?

Edit the dbtech_vbarcade_navtab template, and stick target="_blank" after class="navtab"

Originally Posted by John Lester

Wouldn't save the edit

In the arcade page where it shows online users, the names are back to back without any spacing. How can I fix this?

That seems to be a bug. I will get back with a fix soon.

Originally Posted by John Lester

Ok I'm trying to find out if anyone else is experiencing this scenario that I currently am.

Some of my members can play the games I have installed, some can not. The games simply don't load (they don't even load the advet, but they can play the same game at mochigames without any issues).

It's not a permissions problem as I have been able to play any game on any account (admin mod member etc etc).

Flash and javascript are enabled (in a skype meeting with some members), cookies have been cleared, and as far as I can tell the ad site (url) isn't blocked.

EDIT: have tried with multiple browsers as well

The ad is loaded by mochi though - so if it got that far, then vbarcade has successfully done as much as it can to serve up the game. Have you verified your domain with mochi?

[rknight111]

I did not update mine, this is a new install. What I am finding is It wont register the scores and when you hold over the score button that is next to current champion on the left box beside the game screen I get this, (website name has been put in place of the site name)

http://www.websitename.com/forum/arc...32iLord#scores


When you hover over the scores at the bottom of the screen I get this,

http://www.websitename.com/forum/#


I am running VBSEO as well on my site, and I have installed everything what it said in your addition to the HTA access file.

[Darkwaltz4]

The links should not be a problem, but possibly vBSEO - see your PM