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.

[bransworld]

The daily games have been posting automatically perfectly fine for the last few weeks. But now the last game to post was 3 days ago. Is there a problem?

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by bransworld

The daily games have been posting automatically perfectly fine for the last few weeks. But now the last game to post was 3 days ago. Is there a problem?

Hi , send me your details over PM, I'll get it checked
Thanks

[skol]

Thanks working fine..Just to add as i can't see it posted anywhere in the thread, if your board is switched off it won't work.

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by skol

Thanks working fine..Just to add as i can't see it posted anywhere in the thread, if your board is switched off it won't work.

You are right, thanks for mentioning that !
By the way, it won't work if the forum is password protected as well

We'll try to work around the switched-off boards.

[Warz]

First off this works great inside the forums (the actual thread that it creates).

My question is the Home page (vBCms) has a latest post widget. the daily game there displays as follows:

<div id="GameName" style="font-weight:bold; font-size:bigger; text-align:center; padding-bottom:5px;"><a href="http://www.playedonline.com/game/597839/infectonator-world-dominator.html"...

Warz On 03-05-2010
Daily game Mar 05 : Infectonator: World Dominator

Is there anything that can be done to make this look better?

[MichelangeloITA]

Hi, I followed all the instructions, but I still get

[S]

Exception : undefined method `string' for #

I tried several times, always the same message, could you check my account, please?[/S]

EDIT: Now it works fine, I've put a wrong path to the forums. But I got a new problem: in the section where you push games, we can't see BBcode anymore - if we edit a message, in the editor appears.

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by Warz

First off this works great inside the forums (the actual thread that it creates).

My question is the Home page (vBCms) has a latest post widget. the daily game there displays as follows:



Is there anything that can be done to make this look better?

I've written it down, thanks for the hint

[andreamarucci]

I've a problem. Installed and tried the test game and worked but from yesterday I've not received any new game in the forum. How can I check if everything is working? I've sent you my key just to check...

[andreamarucci]

Ok now the game is in my forum. Maybe I was confused. At what time GMT the new game is coming?

Another thing. I've set the post title to "Gioco del giorno" but the new post title was "Gioco del giorno" without the name and the date.

I've to put "Gioco del giorno [DATE] : [GAME NAME]" in this field?

[DailyGame]

Originally Posted by andreamarucci

Ok now the game is in my forum. Maybe I was confused. At what time GMT the new game is coming?

Another thing. I've set the post title to "Gioco del giorno" but the new post title was "Gioco del giorno" without the name and the date.

I've to put "Gioco del giorno [DATE] : [GAME NAME]" in this field?

Yep, "Gioco del giorno [DATE] : [GAME NAME]" will work