Arcade Submissions

If you have a game you wish to submit to the arcade please read this thread.



Guidelines

To submit a game:

1. package your game in a .zip file
2. Report this post, and include a link to your .zip file in your report
(This way it is sent to every member of the moderating team)

Please include a 100x100 pixel thumbnail image for your game. This could be a logo, screenshot, or other, and should be in .png format (if it is not we will convert it to .png).

We will check your game for any breach of the above rules and then upload it to the site.

Common Sense

We will operate a "common sense" guide with relation to quality control. If your submission is nothing more than a few words on the screen, a recompilation of a sample game, etc, it probably won't be uploaded.

Ownership

Once uploaded you have the ability to edit your game to remove it from the system. You can do this at any time if you wish.

Banned members who want their games deleted should request so in IRC or another method of contacting the staff.

Types Allowed

We allow HTML5 and Flash game submissions. Please see the guidelines above.

Categories

We will attempt to slot your game into an appropriate category, but please tell us if you definately want a certain one. At time of writing these are:

Action, shooter, role playing, puzzle, misc.

Comments

By default, comments will be allowed on games. If you absolutely desperately do not want comments enabled, please let us know and we will disable them. Comments are subject to all current forum rules and treated as a forum thread.



Final Words

Thank you for considering uploading your game, it is much appreciated.

Hi Wyatt, it's great to see that the arcade is coming along to the point that it's accepting submissions! I'm thinking of submitting my game from the HBGames Build and Win contest, but am planning to make future updates as well. If I submit now, will I be able to somehow upload a newer version later?

You can send us new files at a later date and we can overwrite them, yes. If you'd prefer it to be in there as a different game (so both are still playable) that's fine too.

To anyone interested the arcade is now open if you want to try it out. I will make an official announcement later.

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Awesome to hear about the arcade. I'm sure the details will be in an official announcement, but are there any other restrictions to think about. File size limit? use of plugins or certain external scripts/plugins? Max width or height. of the game?

I'm interested in the mature-in-nature clause... to what extend can games be mature before they get filtered out for being porn or whatever?
Just asking because I know the American understanding of mature is a bit different than the German one... just give me a heads up if 'mature in nature' means teenage dating game

And yes, I am asking that because I'm interested in playing & creating those kind of games. Not the dating game kind, that is. Deal with it.


Also, no externally referenced files means I can't implement online multiplayer, or read mysql databases?

Hi, thanks for the feedback;


I will have to discuss this with the rest of the staff. I will get back to you.


I see what you're saying, and for now I will have to say the normal forum rules apply but I'm not sure how vague they are. I think that if there is nudity, hardcore gore, drug use, then it will be considered mature, but every game is different. It's not particularly a problem, all that will happen is the game will look like this when you open the page:




Indeed. I would suggest that if this is your case, it should be hosted on your own server anyway for your own security; we could implement an iFrame perhaps to link to games hosted elsewhere if this would be wanted. We would have to make sure there are no security issues with that first.

If that would be possible, than it actually sounds like a better option... that way, the author could always update the project without having to wait for reconfirmation, which is quite vital if you got to fix MySQL securities quickly.

Plus I'd host it on my own server anyway.

Bit of a cafuffle,
In three entries we've already had two which show a flaw in the system.

A "game" is, technically, just a post. That way we can automate certain things, one of those is attributing a game author using their forum profile.

Well, two games submitted have more than one author. I have attributed the person who submitted the games for now, but this may need to be changed in future so as to give all members of a team proper credit.

I think it'd be a good idea to add a designated area, meant to credit people. If you limit it to users of this forum, I couldn't properly credit the guy from Jamendo that wrote the awesome music I used as Power Shift's soundtrack </shameless advertising>
If you got that, hiding the poster of the game won't be all that important anymore... instead, maybe a text field for the author would work nicely, which means you could put one, two or three names in there, as well as a company name for those who want to roll big. Now if you get extra fancy here, do some rexexp magic and replace words in there with userprofile links if matching :)

In general, I really like where it's going, though... I'm definately planning to contribute to this in the future.

Yes, you're right.

I have added a new bbcode intended for this, however you can use it how you wish; I just wanted something stylized. Once your game's up you can modify it to add the bbcode below it.

[infobox=Credits]Credits go here[/infobox]

Credits

Credits go here

Of course you can then add more if you need to or do it in your own way, etc.

Just wondering, but is it possible for multiple people to have ownership over a game? Since Tuna is the author of Project GRID on the Arcade, but what if I wanted to add an update to the game and he isn't online? Will I just have to sit and twiddle my thumbs until he comes on so I can give him the files to report and whatever else?

I can only set one "owner" who can edit the page itself, but if you want any files replacing or the game itself just report this post and include a link to the new files (or indeed if you want the game removing from the site). :) the staff aren't robots so we'll know it's you. (All files are manually dealt with as a security thing.)