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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[MattGarner]

Is there not a way you can ban a user via username instead of IP address?

[Darkwaltz4]

You can create a secondary usergroup, say "banned from arcade" and add users to that. Then you can easily block that usergroup from playing in the arcade.

[popowich]

I like this arcade but I messed up. I upgraded from vB3 to vB4 earlier this week. I have backups. I started with ibproarcade which looked terrible after the upgrade. I migrated to v3arcade which wasn't much better. I installed and converted to this arcade earlier today. It was working fine, and the games use a ton of space, so I removed the old arcades both by uninstalling products and removing games. Sometime later I noticed there were multiple scrores being recorded for members. I only wanted to have the best score per member. I tried the scheduled cron job for cleaning up the scores but misinterpreted what it does. Now all our scores are gone. I have a sql dump of the original arcade. Is there any way for me to import the old scores for our games? Does everyone need to start over? Ugh. Thanks!

[Darkwaltz4]

Is it possible for you to restore the original ibproarcade you had installed? If so, uninstall vBArcade first...

Once ibproarcade is restored, install a fresh vbarcade on top of it (be sure to set vBArcade to use only best score) and use its import function to get all your games (be sure to check to include Scores with this process).

When all the games and scores are in, you can uninstall ibproarcade, including the gamedata folder - all the media assets will have been moved to the central vbarcade folder.

Let me know if I can be of further assistance

[popowich]

Any chance I can restore it under a different domain name and a migrate script can be written to migrate from that site to the live site? They would be on the same server. I don't want to start all over again on the vB4. The backups were for vB3 a couple days ago. Actually a command line migrate script would be helpful in general. I have over 4000 games and the migrate pages timed out on big numbers like 1000. I was able to sit here and do them 500 at a time which still took a while.

[Darkwaltz4]

Well it needs both the tables (which look like games_*) from ibproarcade and the old /arcade/ folder. You can restore your backup to that domain, then selectively copy those tables/folder to your official domain.

[popowich]

Actually, before I go through that, any chance there is an undo for that scheduled task that unhides the scores? From what I can see a lot of other stats are still displayed.

[popowich]

If I upgrade to pro after the fact will the legacy champion still be shown?

[MattGarner]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

You can create a secondary usergroup, say "banned from arcade" and add users to that. Then you can easily block that usergroup from playing in the arcade.

Ah good thinking. Thanks!

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by popowich

Actually, before I go through that, any chance there is an undo for that scheduled task that unhides the scores? From what I can see a lot of other stats are still displayed.

No, however I could probably put that into the next version.

Originally Posted by popowich

If I upgrade to pro after the fact will the legacy champion still be shown?

Yes all games, scores, settings will be kept when upgrading to the pro version.