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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[kenp]

Originally Posted by glen290

We have finally upgraded th ie9 at work yay !! But i have the tiny play screen problem now, did a fix come out for this ?

I had the same issue. Are you running a custom template? I was and once I reverted that issue went away. After that I just customized the css myself...........

[LgsOfChampions]

no games come with this correct? Just asking cause wanna make sure I wasn't over looking them..

know of a place to get games?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by LgsOfChampions

no games come with this correct? Just asking cause wanna make sure I wasn't over looking them..

know of a place to get games?

You can use the import option in the ACP to get games from several sources.

Iain

[stwan]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

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add above

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Thanks. This bug fixed in next version?

[doctorsexy]

Hi ... i have the tiny play screen problem with ie9 as well ..firefox is ok ...thanks

[Darkwaltz4]

vBArcade v2.0.0 Gold + Lite Released!

After a very intense development period, with much great and appreciated feedback from our beta testers, I am happy to make available vBArcade v2.0.0 gold and lite.
Aside from the usual small improvements, I sought out to make the best flash arcade tournament system ever, and those who use it give it rave reviews.

My main focus was streamlining the entire process for players, from discovering and joining, to actually playing through the tournaments.
The system intelligently handles automatic pairing and replays with AJAX, to sending alerts, to breaking ties.

vBArcade tournaments are made to reward fast players by pairing them with each other, and allowing them to continue to advance as far as they qualify.
Even if the tournament as a whole hasn't moved beyond the first round, fast players can already be attempting the third, without waiting for the rest.
At the same time, the effects of no-shows is mitigated by an enforced time limit that auto-forfeits such players, while maintaining the integrity of the brackets.

All told, tournaments become fun, fast-paced and interactive, just like the rest of the vBArcade game playing experience.

v2.0.0 Gold Changelist:

Fixed global score loading
Mochi localhost/ssl scoring support improvements
Segregated configuration settings screen
Forum block shows data type used as title if title left unchanged
Local scoring indicators during import and manage games
Consistent guest label used with champion guests
Fixed choppy arcade portal AJAX search tab
Consistent table spacing and superfluous links cleaned up
Many minor wording, layout, optimization tweaks and bugfixes

Tournaments

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

Friendly Challenges

Familiar multi-round format
Players pair up, winner of each match advances
Winner of the final round declared champion
Begins immediately on final required player joining
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

(there is an expanded pro list of features in the first post)

[Gemma]

The tournament system is definitely a cut above anything else I've seen on any bulletin board arcade system. Well done, good job

[Mukashi]

Hmmm. Got the following error on upgrade. Any ideas what'd cause this?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/functions.php(8579) : eval()'d code on line 39

Warning: uasort() [function.uasort]: The argument should be an array in [path]/includes/functions.php(8579) : eval()'d code on line 80

[glen290]

I have the same issue after upgrading this morning..

[doctorsexy]

upgraded .... thanks :up: