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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This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:

• 1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
• 1 Link to Product Description page of this modification

[Darkwaltz4]

Anyone having trouble with scoring should run through this troubleshooting list:
http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f104/...-scoring-6487/

If that does not help, I will need an admin login to poke around on your site. Currently no known scoring issues.

Originally Posted by skol

Auto Post URL..For auto posting single games from mochis site.What file should the url point too..

Thanks.

The URL to your arcade.php

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Noticing a little odd behaviour in how this the mod seems to interact with other mods, hoping someone here might be able to assist.

Okay, so the mods in question are...
[DBTech] vBArcade (vB4)
[DBTech] vBNavTabs - Navbar Tabs / Tab Management v1 (vB4)
and the vBulletin integration plugin for Photopost 8.03.

Okay, so as you can see on our forum homepage...
http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net
...the tabs for the Gallery (created by the Photopost plugin), the Arcade (created by this mod) and the Social Groups (created by the DBTech vBNavTabs mod) work fine

Likewise, if we go to the page for social groups, using the tab created by DBTech vBNavTabs...
http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/groups/
...all those tabs are still there and working properly

But if we go to the Arcade, with the tab this mod creates...
http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/arcade.php
...the tab for the gallery is missing

The oddest thing though....if I then turn off the tab in this mod, and try creating an Arcade tab with DBTech vBNavTabs, I get the same thing. The Gallery tab vanishes.

I have no idea if the error lies with this mod, or with the Photopost integration, or what it is, but it's a very odd situation regardless. Any ideas why this would be happening, and what we could do to fix that from happening?

Hm, if this is still troubling you, I'll need the photopost addon to try it locally (or an admin login with plugin access on your site)

Originally Posted by stwan

Where can I get a converter of v3arcade in vbarcade?

If you still have v3 Arcade installed, vBArcade will detect its presence and give you the option to import from the import page. If you have v3 arcade games, you can use the upload tool for the v3arcade zips of the games, and it should be able to read them.

[John Lester]

How do I change the location/order of the arcade navtab?

[John Lester]

Originally Posted by John Lester

How do I change the location/order of the arcade navtab?

Never mind I simply disabled the tab in the mod and made one using the navtab mod I have installed

[stwan]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

If you still have v3 Arcade installed, vBArcade will detect its presence and give you the option to import from the import page. If you have v3 arcade games, you can use the upload tool for the v3arcade zips of the games, and it should be able to read them.

Thank you for your answer! Score players will convert?

Score v3arcade => Score vBArcade

[sinistergaming]

is there any way to get a forum block for this system ?

[stwan]

Originally Posted by stwan

Thank you for your answer! Score players will convert?

Score v3arcade => Score vBArcade

up up

[DragonByte Tech]

Plenty of fun new features in v1.2.1 of vBArcade lite!

Several scoring and ranking related bugs, some style consistency fixes, and other patches, and more appealing game panel spacing.
Improved .htaccess installation (also, if you had scoring issues, revert your .htaccess vBArcade edits before upgrading)

Mochi's post game to site functionality and new game page scrape bulk import method
New forum block for any amount of latest scores/champions, or sorted games. Mix and match!

Finally, you can pin games to Pinterest. Enjoy!

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by stwan

Thank you for your answer! Score players will convert?

Score v3arcade => Score vBArcade

Yes During the import, there is an option to include categories, scores, and equivalent settings. Check the box next to scores!

Originally Posted by sinistergaming

is there any way to get a forum block for this system ?

Theres now included a new comprehensive forum block you can use multiple times in different ways.

[sinistergaming]

wow thanks
i wanted to add some games from v3arcade install but they have went to part of vbadvanced
whats a link i can goto about using that as well as mochi

[Darkwaltz4]

You can still install v3 arcade games via the upload method for now - or convert from your existing v3 install if you have it disabled.