Major Additions - Play By Post Gaming Core

What does this do?
On its own this mod does NOTHING. It provides the Admin CP interface and common code for Play by post games.

What can I use it for?
There are two reasons why you might want to isntall this mod. The first and most common is that you wish to install one or more Play by post games for your forums. The second is that you want to develop your own play by post game.

What exactly IS play by post gaming/games?
The idea of a play by post game is that it is a game played by one or more of your forum members within a thread of your forum. A player makes a move by making a post containing the details of the move that they wish to make. As an example, take the chess plugin; this allows two members to play a game of chess beween them, each player in turn posts the piece they wish to move and where they want it to move to. The thread output gets turned into a chess board so that other members can see the game.

Features

• Admin CP interface to configure games.
• Admin CP interface to configure stats from games.
• Allows assigning of games to forums.
• When posting a new thread, members can pick between avaliable games to play.

Installation
1. Upload contents of upload folder.
2. Import product.
3. Find, download and install at least one PBPG compatible game.
4. Configure game and assign it to at least 1 forum.
5. I recomend turning off bbcode, smilies, images and post count in the forums you assign games to.

Uninstallation
1. Edit any forum with a configuration assigned; remove all the configurations.
2. Use the clear threads option (beta 2+) against each configuration to remove the config from threads. (the threads will revert to being normal forum threads)
3. Delete all configurations.
4. Uninstall all pbpg plugins.
5. Uninstall this product.

Changelog

• 4.0-0.1 b4
  • Added statistics management tool. Any plugins which provide statistics can be managed by this tool, mapping stats into user profile fields.
  • Added some admin help to some areas; some work still needed.
  • Added comms support. This includes the basic tools for plugins to communicate with each other and store state.
• 4.0-0.1 b3
  • Added install lib to simplify and unifiy plugin install code.
• 4.0-0.1 b2
  • Changed select box to checkboxes for enabling plugins.
  • Added clear threads option to configuration to remove it from any threads its enabled on.
  • Product drops its own tables on uninstall.
• 4.0-0.1 b1
  • Fixed bug with javascript in IE.
• 4.0-0.1 a3
  • Added safety check to delete configuration. You can no longer delete a configuration thats in use.
  • Added a common directory for scripts and images common to one or more pbp game.
  • Fixed a bug that occured in threads that go beyond a single page when you are not viewing the last page.
• 4.0-0.1 a2
  • Added ability to delete configurations
  • Phrased admin cp elements. (if anyone notices any missing let me know)
  • Cleaned up install code
  • Added uninstall code to revert changes to vbulletin tables only
  • Added redirect/error messages
• 4.0-0.1 a1
  • Initial release

Notes

• YOU MUST INSTALL AT LEAST ONE GAME FOR THIS MOD TO WORK. Games are posted in separate threads; I'll use the first post to keep a list of all the games that are avaliable.
• If you intend to develop your own game, the API isn't finished or fixed yet, so hold fire for a while I'll also be putting some docs into the thread to assist with this.
• Contents of ref folder in the zip are for referance, they list uploaded files and the database changes made in case you want to remove the mod.
• Install lib file has been moved; some older versions of plugins may fail to find it, if this is the case update to the latest version of the plugin.

[Carnage]

Beta 4 is /finally/ out.

Additions include support for stats from plugins and inter plugin communication.

Latest versions of chess and tournaments+ladders have been released; checkers is on its way once I've got some images done.

[starman?]

Good work man. Tagged.

[War.Frog]

I'm all over this once checkers is out. Looks fantastic.

[rob01]

is there any way, for implementing this to role play games??

[Carnage]

Yes, you would have to write your own plugin to parse the posts and output players statistics etc. It's on my list of plugins to write, however it's a LOT of work so it's likely to be a long while.

[Toorak Times]

Hi Carnage,

Love your work and want to implement it on my site, especially the Tournaments mod.



What I want to do is run LIVE Lawn Bowls tournament where entrant members enter the draw, entry fee of $30 - I have a sponsor www.kittychaser.com.au who will send energy your way $-), run over a couple of months where players can choose their own club to play at, or the major sponsor's home/sponsored club.

It has always been hard to fill real bowls tourneys because players have to turn up to a venue, somewhere in metropolitan Melbourne or up the bush, pay their fee and hang around for ages and, because like all sporting fields, only so many can be accommodated.

I believe your mod will revolutionise the way Australian clubs can produce live updates and all the other cool stuff contained in your mod.

Is there a scorecard, or did I miss it?

I would love to talk.

Mick

[flapjack]

Would be awesome to see this mod working with 4.2.0. I've tried both Chess and Checkers, and nothing seems to happen when you try to post any moves or set options.