Major Additions - [DBTech] vBArcade v2 (vB5)

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. Streamlined import and editing managers put games from mochi, v3arcade, ibproarcade and more into your arcade with ease. 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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Documentation
https://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/docs/vbarcade

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Major Features:

Modular Game Handling: Currently supports games from pnflash, ibproarcade, v3arcade, mochi, (plus armor, kongregate, flashgamedistribution, spilgames in pro) and more can be added with a single file.

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.

Lite

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

"Most Trophies" Module

• Lists top 3 players and how many trophies they hold
• Displays avatar and link to member profile
• Displays username if avatars are turned off
• "Show Avatars" module configuration
• Respects user's choice to hide avatars if applicable

"Longest Players" Module

• Lists top 3 players and how long they've played
• Displays avatar and link to member profile
• Displays username if avatars are turned off
• "Show Avatars" module configuration
• "Maximum Players to Show" module configuration
• Respects user's choice to hide avatars if applicable

"You Might Like" Module

• Displays a semi-random game similar to existing one
• Fetches random game from the same category if one exists
• "Show Game Icon" module configuration

Global Scoring Integration

• Synchronises scoring with the Global Scoring system
• Displays Global Champion if enabled

Commenting

• Add / Edit comments for your scores on games
• AJAX-powered

Score Alerts

• Receive Email and/or PM notifications when your score is beaten
• Respects vBulletin's notification settings
• Contains link to the game for quick play

Score Tracking

• latest and champion scores
• most winners and longest players
• average scores, plays and playtime
• yourself and locally
• local rankings

General / Other

• Modern streamlined appearance with AJAX for replay and searching
• Tweet, Like, Pin, or +1 a game
• Easy game resizing
• Ajax ratings
• Set descriptions, instructions, controls, keywords - even authors and copyrights
• Assign games to multiple categories - with icons descriptions
• Manually or one-button mass install games from any source
• existing arcade installation (plus scores and settings): ibProArcade, v3 Arcade
• package upload or ftp directory: pnFlash, ibProArcade v3 Arcade, Mochi
• featured games feed: Mochi
• Obtain local scores from supported APIs: ibProArcade, v3 Arcade, pnFlash, Mochi
• Use time played as backup score when unsupported
• Retrieve scores from global network of participating sites
• See global champions with links
• Automatically archive old or duplicate scores

Additional Features (Pro)

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
• Invite/Reminder Email/PM alerts, with notifications
• 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

Tournament 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
• 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

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

Score Alerts

• Automatically create a new thread or post on highscore
• Uses vBulletin APIs to insert the content
• Works with vBulletin features like commenting

Category Passwords

• Set passwords to your categories
• AJAX input password before game list loads
• No reloads necessary

General / Other

• Submit your scores to the global network for global display
• Play games from Spil Games, FlashGameDistribution, Armor and Kongregate
• Get local scoring support from GamerSafe games
• Show off the legacy champion even if you archived all scores
• 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

Features Still Missing (Lite)

General / Other

• post your score to your Facebook wall
  FB integration with vB5 isn't 100% complete yet, this will be re-examined when that time comes.
• Show off your trophy collection in your postbit
  The vB5 postbit isn't designed to be as cluttered as the vB4 postbit can be, so this will be on the shelf for the time being.

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[THVossen]

When trying to import games:

For automatic game importing to work, your https://tunerheat.com/core/packages/...vbarcade/media directory needs to be readable and writable (chmod 0777).

But it is in media is 777?

[THVossen]

New error when adding a game:

Your game needs a game ID, title, height, width, and flash file at a minimum.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by THVossen

New error when adding a game:

Your game needs a game ID, title, height, width, and flash file at a minimum.

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you are reporting. That is a message telling you that some information from the previous page was missing.

Can you please provide more information?


Fillip

[THVossen]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you are reporting. That is a message telling you that some information from the previous page was missing.

Can you please provide more information?


Fillip

I filled in all the required fields. But I'm not sure what they're asking for Game ID? Where can this be located and is there an example?

Also can u recommend websites to use that include game id?

[Ashlar217]

Ok, so I had reported a few weeks ago that i couldnt get any of the arcade modules to show up on the arcade page. I checked into a few sites running this arcade on 5.2.4 boards, and found that all the sites who appear to be running the arcade script successfully, are using a 2 column layout on the arcade page.

I had been using a 3 column layout for my vb5.2.4. I tested this by changing the arcade page layout to a 2 column layout instead.

Results: All the arcade modules now appear as they should on the arcade page as long as i dont try to run a 3 column layout on the arcade page.

[Ashlar217]

Still cant get games to score. When a game is finished and score submitted a page shows for a few seconds that says "A systems error occurred" "the software has experienced a systems error" .

all the categories show but you click on anything except ALL its empty.

I'M getting same errors on 5.2.4. Games play fine up until submitting scores. Ive tried the various options for scoring system such as ipb, vb etc..

At least now I can see the arcade and the games are playable.

Any plans on working on getting this VB5 compatible more? The pro version is what I really need, but I won't invest until I know the lite is on the way to being stable.

[THVossen]

I assume lite version can't add games?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Ashlar217

Any plans on working on getting this VB5 compatible more? The pro version is what I really need, but I won't invest until I know the lite is on the way to being stable.

To be honest, considering the fact that I am still receiving emails about critical bugs and issues I reported over 4 years ago in the Pre-release version of vB5 and how they are just now being cleared out, it would not make sense for us to dedicate significant resources to improving compatibility with vB5.

That's not to say I'll never fix any bugs or anything, I'm just saying it's very unlikely major updates to any of our vB5 products will happen as vB5 is in my opinion a very poorly managed product that has intentionally been made very difficult to develop for.

If we physically cannot produce products that live up to our standards of quality, or even feature parity to the vB4 versions, in spite of reporting these shortcomings during the preview version we were given specifically to report shortcomings, then our hands are pretty much tied.

To put it another way: I know and I understand how frustrating this is to you, but please believe me when I say it's ten times more frustrating for me when I'm faced with support tickets from users like yourself, who just want a working product. Knowing that I can't actually deliver that is incredibly saddening to me.

Originally Posted by THVossen

I assume lite version can't add games?

There should be no limitations on adding games to the Lite version as far as I can remember.


Fillip

[Ashlar217]

This is such a shame. I feel the pain of the coders who try their best to provide quality modifications for us. I just don't understand the logic of making a product like this less appealing to customers by limiting it's capabilities?

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Ashlar217

This is such a shame. I feel the pain of the coders who try their best to provide quality modifications for us. I just don't understand the logic of making a product like this less appealing to customers by limiting it's capabilities?

I'll admit my wording was coloured by my own frustrations. The fact is, vBulletin 5's priorities now rest solely in the hands of bean counters. To them, making the product more modification friendly is the tiniest of blips, as their data most likely suggests that the vast majority of forum owners do not install any modifications.

For that reason, it makes more sense to them to focus on trying to make the product contain the same features as the previous version ().

That's also the reason why they decided to implement our "Advanced User Tagging" product into the core vBulletin product - a lot of people requested it and voted for it in Jira.

Since our ability to eat is directly tied to our ability to produce quality products, vB5 is not a viable strategic location for our (very limited) resources at this time.


Fillip