Add-On Releases - Daily Game - Free games for your forum

Daily Game posts a new flash game to your vBulletin once per day in a new thread. Daily Game will help your forum by:

• Starting up conversations on slow days
• Increasing retention since users are playing on your forum
• Help you get links and improve SEO (flash games get a lot of links!)
• Make you money! Use your own ad code to display an ad while the flash game is loading. These pre-roll ads get very high eCPM!

Install time: 5 minutes
Installation difficulty: Easy
Demo: http://www.playedonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40

Updated to version 2.1 : simple_xml support is no longer required, enabled bbcodes on the game thread

Installation instructions

1. Upload add_daily_game.php to the vBulletin root directory
2. Import the product XML file (Plugins & Products -> Manage Products - > [Add/Import Product])
3. Configure the Daily Game settings under vBulletin Options -> vBulletin Options -> Daily Game:
   • Set ?Enabled? to Yes
   • Visit www.playedonline.com/register_vbulletin to register (input your forum's url and your email) and get a shared key for authentication
   • Configure which userid will post the daily games (input 0 for guest)
   • Choose a forum for Daily Game
   • Customise the title (useful for non-English forums) or leave blank for default
   • Enable or disable description and instructions
   • Paste ad code (e.g. AdSense) to show a pre-roll ad before the game starts (optional, leave empty to show no ads)
   • Click the Test link you got in the registration e-mail to post a test daily game (you can delete the test post after you verify that it works)
   • You're done! A daily game will be posted on your forum every day at 3am EST.

[dangerin]

It's impossible to remove the post with the old game.
it ever say that the action is not posible and i'm the admnistrator..
How this is possible ?

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by dangerin

It's impossible to remove the post with the old game.
it ever say that the action is not posible and i'm the admnistrator..
How this is possible ?

That's weird, you should be able to delete the post. The plugin certainly doesn't stand in your way.

Currently the reason for having one user sending the posts is security, so if we want to allow changing the user we'll need to find another security measure to work around it. I'll look into it...

[rlshosting]

Originally Posted by DailyGame

What do you mean by "instead of the game"?

We haven't tried bidvertiser on our forum, but if it's a standard ad code it will work. Please post your experience with it on this thread.

Instead of the Adsense code. You answered my question. I am going to try the bidvertiser code.

[volarium]

What triggers the daily run? I don't see any new items listed in Scheduled Tasks.

[nomoreturn]

Installed updates and now its working perfect. its a great mod and i think with this mod we will increase membership and our forum members will enjoy every day new game . Thanks for souch a nice mod .

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by volarium

What triggers the daily run? I don't see any new items listed in Scheduled Tasks.

We push the games from our servers once a day

[dangerin]

Originally Posted by DailyGame

That's weird, you should be able to delete the post. The plugin certainly doesn't stand in your way.

Currently the reason for having one user sending the posts is security, so if we want to allow changing the user we'll need to find another security measure to work around it. I'll look into it...

I can only modify the post but except this problem that is not really big.. is only a post and not more.. i do not understand why today there is not the game.. when it post a new game on the forum?

i hope to find as soon as possible the game because i've announced on site that there s a game everyday and now there is not..
Bye

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by dangerin

I can only modify the post but except this problem that is not really big.. is only a post and not more.. i do not understand why today there is not the game.. when it post a new game on the forum?

i hope to find as soon as possible the game because i've announced on site that there s a game everyday and now there is not..
Bye

It's coming in about 30 minutes

[dangerin]

Wonderful.. so i can see if is all ok.. but every day this is the time? so i can say to users what is the right time to publish the game! thank you

[Quads]

Got the first game installed shortly after installing the package.
Looks good so far! Thanks! Will keep my forum monkeys off my back for a while.