About
You can learn more about Arcade Management system from the documentation. It is also included in your download.
Arcade Management System (1.0.0) also supports multiple languages and custom themes. You can read more about that from the documentation linked above. There’s also a custom 404 page, here’s an example.
For now, you can view the administration in the screenshots but there will be a link to an administration demo with some actions disabled in the description once we’re done working on it.
If you like our work and would like to see more from us then please don’t forget to rate . Report all the bugs you find to our e-mail or comments. We will fix them as soon as possible.
Features
Administration
Home page with latest actions Manage advertisements Enable or disable game categories Manage featured games Adding games manually or fetching from Mochi Media Host games (downloads fetched game) Editing/deleting games and users Multiple editing Five different user groups Promoting users to moderator or admin Banning users Trash bin from where you can restore deleted units
Games
Sort by category and order by statistics Search for games by name or keywords Rate, comment and add games to favourites Integrated Mochi Media leaderboard Featured and spotlighted games
Users
Points and level system Profile page with friends, favourites and statistics Rating and commenting users Send and recieve private messages Each user gets a unique avatar (identicon) that can be changed
User Settings
Upload new avatar Change password and e-mail Edit description
Points & Levels
Every user starts out as level 1 upon registration. They can earn experience and levels through various actions:
- 1 point for playing a game they haven’t played before
- 1 point for commenting a user or game
- 1 point for rating a user or game
- 1 point for receiving a rating
- 25 points for referring a user
When a user plays a game with the leaderboard enabled and submits a score, the user gets as many points as the number of other players (s)he beat. For example, if a user ranks third in a game that has 10 score submissions, the user receives 7 points.
To reach level 2, a user has to earn 50 points. As the level increments, so does the amount of points needed to reach the next level by 50. On the users page, you can order users by how many points they’ve collected in a certain time period. Each user can also see how they rank on the sidebar.
User Groups
- Owner: the first account you create during setup; has all the privileges
- Administrator: has access to the administration, but cannot view the Settings nor Advertisements tabs
- Moderator: cannot access the administration, but has privileges on the site (deleting comments)
- User: doesn’t have any special privileges, this is the default group
- Banned: cannot log in to the site
Installation
Setup
- Upload the downloaded files on a web hosting of your choice
- Give write permissions to /cache/ and /public/db/ folders using an FTP client or a file browser your hosting provides (usually chmod 755 or 777 if that doesn’t work)
- Open your browser and navigate to the site
- You should see the Arcade database setup page (screenshot)
Database setup
- Driver: your database type (most commonly MySQL or PostgreSQL)
- Host: the database server host (usually 127.0.0.1, if not, consult your hosting)
- Username, password: database user and password that your host should provide
- Database: name of the database you want to use
- Prefix: this will be prepended to all of the table names that the script creates in the database, this is useful if you only have one database and use it for multiple sites
Once you finish the database setup, you will be prompted to create a user account. The account you create now is the most privileged user on the site, it has access to the administration and can create other administrators. Once you finish this step, you’ll be on the home page logged in as the owner.
There’s more information available in the documentation.