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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[doctorsexy]

Still no problems here ... very pleased with it....:up:

[Mukashi]

Get the following error when trying to install this on our test forum.

Warning: file_put_contents([path]/.htaccess) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in [path]/dbtech/vbarcade/arcade_installer.php on line 49

What would likely be causing that?

[kenp]

I keep getting a playing screen about 1/3 the size of the designated area for playing. Any clue?

[monkeyboy1916]

Originally Posted by kenp

I keep getting a playing screen about 1/3 the size of the designated area for playing. Any clue?

Having the same issue only in IE, so I can verify this.

I hadn't reported it because I was just assuming it was among the other IE glitches that are planned to be fixed in the next version =)

[glen290]

Yeah, same thing happens to me in IE too...

[Darkwaltz4]

Thanks to everyone who nominated vbarcade for MOTM!

Originally Posted by Andyrew

Yes I have a .htaccess file, no errors when importing product, no games save score. Also after playing a game for the first time all other games come up with this when I go to play them.

Originally Posted by gamerscms

Any reason why the scores are not submitting to my forum?

Originally Posted by OldSchoolDSL

Same issue here

Here are the current reasons why scores might not be submitting on your site:

• The permissions for you and that game have not been set to Score
• The game has been set to not accept scoring
• The game has been set to the wrong scoring system
• Your game session has not submitted the score
• Your .htaccess file has not been altered correctly (usually indicated by errors during product import)
• Your arcade is set to archive your non-best scores, and that was not your best score

The first bullet is most likely, the next two are USUALLY set automatically, MOST games will have a well-informed score submission time (though I've seen games that send without telling you, and some that don't actually send despite claiming it), the fifth bullet will usually throw installer errors/messages, and the last bullet should at least show some scores from somewhere being saved.


Do only specific games, or specific scoring systems, or all games not save scoring for yourself, specific usergroups, or everyone?

If you have checked all of those and think its all correct, please PM me an admin login and FTP so I can look into it.

Originally Posted by Mukashi

Get the following error when trying to install this on our test forum.

Warning: file_put_contents([path]/.htaccess)  [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied  in [path]/dbtech/vbarcade/arcade_installer.php on line 49

What would likely be causing that?

Create an empty .htaccess file in your forum root and make it writable. Then run the installer again to apply the contents to it.

Originally Posted by fookaa

Hi thanks for the reply, i must of missed that post

One other thing, i also have your thanks/likes mod installed both awesome mods

One slight issue is the post bit stuff is all messed up looking... Im sure it's easily fixed when you know how, i have just imported over from phpbb so im a bit new to vb...

See attached image. Any tips would be much appreciated...

Did you edit your postbit templates to include special classes or something to the items in the postbit?

Originally Posted by glen290

Yeah, same thing happens to me in IE too...

Originally Posted by monkeyboy1916

Having the same issue only in IE, so I can verify this.

I hadn't reported it because I was just assuming it was among the other IE glitches that are planned to be fixed in the next version =)

Originally Posted by kenp

I keep getting a playing screen about 1/3 the size of the designated area for playing. Any clue?

Can I get a screenshot of this happening? Unfortunately the first one that got posted was of the entire desktop and has been skewed such that its difficult to figure out which dimensions of the game are incorrect :-/ Alternatively, if someone wants to PM me an admin login with style permissions I can verify that I've got this taken care of in the next update.

I'm actually trying to include vbcredits integration in the next version, or at least all the hooks in place that im going to want. All of the bugs reported so far have been taken care of.

[Mukashi]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Create an empty .htaccess file in your forum root and make it writable. Then run the installer again to apply the contents to it.

Looks like that did it, thanks. When we're installing on the live forum, simply making our existing .htaccess file writable will be enough, will it?

[glen290]

@Darkwaltz, will Pm my test board details for you to look at, hope this helps..

[creppello]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Edit the vBArcade - Render Postbit Trophies plugin, find:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['dbtech_vbarcade_postbits'] == ++$i) break; 


replace with

PHP Code:

if ($this->registry->options['dbtech_vbarcade_postbits'] <= $i++) break; 


Man, thanks. I was losing my MIND trying to figure out what was causing that, never even dawned on me it could be linked to the arcade......DOH !!!!

[glen290]

Is there a time limit whenplaying games, installed a few games today and if your only on for a short time it saves ok, but if your on them for a long time it does not save, in the arcade box a small shot of my forum appears and thenjust goes back to normal and no saving of the scores..