Darkwaltz4
Former Developer
After a very intense development period, with much great and appreciated feedback from our beta testers, I am happy to make available vBArcade v2.0.0 gold and lite.
Aside from the usual small improvements, I sought out to make the best flash arcade tournament system ever, and those who use it give it rave reviews.
My main focus was streamlining the entire process for players, from discovering and joining, to actually playing through the tournaments.
The system intelligently handles automatic pairing and replays with AJAX, to sending alerts, to breaking ties.
vBArcade tournaments are made to reward fast players by pairing them with each other, and allowing them to continue to advance as far as they qualify.
Even if the tournament as a whole hasn't moved beyond the first round, fast players can already be attempting the third, without waiting for the rest.
At the same time, the effects of no-shows is mitigated by an enforced time limit that auto-forfeits such players, while maintaining the integrity of the brackets.
All told, tournaments become fun, fast-paced and interactive, just like the rest of the vBArcade game playing experience.
Full v2.0.0 Gold Changelist:
Mochi localhost/ssl scoring support improvements
Global scoring fixed, with (Pro) function to sync local scores
Segregated configuration settings screen
Forum block shows data type used as title if title left unchanged
Local scoring indicators during import and manage games
Consistent guest label used with champion guests
Fixed choppy arcade portal AJAX search tab
Consistent table spacing and superfluous links cleaned up
Many minor wording, layout, optimization tweaks and bugfixes
Updates from v2.0.0b7:
Created SSL tunnel for mochi scoring support
Fixed broken mochi import for filenames with spaces
Fixed game loading with malformed forum url setting
Fixed invalid global winners and (Pro) better #1 /#2 ranking
(Pro) Fixed auto next-match AJAX selection for mochi/v2 games
You can download the lite version for free from our member area, or on vbulletin.org here
Just a little reminder, please remember to nominate/rate/like vBArcade there if you use the lite or pro versions
Discuss this news here.
Aside from the usual small improvements, I sought out to make the best flash arcade tournament system ever, and those who use it give it rave reviews.
My main focus was streamlining the entire process for players, from discovering and joining, to actually playing through the tournaments.
The system intelligently handles automatic pairing and replays with AJAX, to sending alerts, to breaking ties.
vBArcade tournaments are made to reward fast players by pairing them with each other, and allowing them to continue to advance as far as they qualify.
Even if the tournament as a whole hasn't moved beyond the first round, fast players can already be attempting the third, without waiting for the rest.
At the same time, the effects of no-shows is mitigated by an enforced time limit that auto-forfeits such players, while maintaining the integrity of the brackets.
All told, tournaments become fun, fast-paced and interactive, just like the rest of the vBArcade game playing experience.
Full v2.0.0 Gold Changelist:
Mochi localhost/ssl scoring support improvements
Global scoring fixed, with (Pro) function to sync local scores
Segregated configuration settings screen
Forum block shows data type used as title if title left unchanged
Local scoring indicators during import and manage games
Consistent guest label used with champion guests
Fixed choppy arcade portal AJAX search tab
Consistent table spacing and superfluous links cleaned up
Many minor wording, layout, optimization tweaks and bugfixes
- Tournaments
- Overall
- Any local scoring game, with unique titles and descriptions
- Shown as a detailed horizontal tree, while playing the game
- (Pro) Live countdowns shown for tournaments set in the future
- (Pro) Invite specific users and/or allow specific usergroups to join
- (Pro) Optionally auto-confirm all invited players to begin immediately
- Auto-prune tournaments that don't reach minimum players
- (Pro) Create recurring tournaments and optionally rematch players
- Convert related settings from other arcades
- (Pro) Optional privacy hides tournaments from nonparticipants
- (Pro) Track all matches, with results and standings, from admincp
- (Pro) Easily search, sort, begin, clone, mass delete from admincp
- 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
- (Pro) Optionally disallow practicing a game a player is competing in
- Matches
- Each tournament sets number of play attempts per match
- (Pro) Replays automatically switch to the relevant match with AJAX
- 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) Random player chosen to advance in a double forfeit
- (Pro) Fast players can advance to future rounds and pair up early
- (Pro) Optionally count tournament scores towards regular leaderboards
- (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
- (Pro) 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
- Overall
Updates from v2.0.0b7:
Created SSL tunnel for mochi scoring support
Fixed broken mochi import for filenames with spaces
Fixed game loading with malformed forum url setting
Fixed invalid global winners and (Pro) better #1 /#2 ranking
(Pro) Fixed auto next-match AJAX selection for mochi/v2 games
You can download the lite version for free from our member area, or on vbulletin.org here
Just a little reminder, please remember to nominate/rate/like vBArcade there if you use the lite or pro versions
Discuss this news here.
