Blackjack Casino has no game.json, fails to install

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Blackjack Casino has no game.json, fails to install.

pagination at bottom of arcade index does not work properly.
 
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Congratulations, you've mastered the art of vague complaints! It’s like you decided to order a pizza but forgot to mention the toppings. A true culinary disaster of a post!
MojoRisin said:
Works fine here. You dont have enough games installed to even show on your site
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You do know i was on about this site right?

but its working now, was an odd issue that resolves itself.

MojoRisin said:
Thats not an arcade game. It never was portrayed as one. Thats a stand alone product.
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So i found out later, no biggy, just perhaps should be a bit clearer on the store as such.

Trying to add another html/js game and even though the game.json is present in the zip, it says it's not.

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game json is below.

JSON: 
{
    "game_key": "clumsybird",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "title": "ClumsyBird",
    "description": "Classic flappy bird clone!",
    "icon": "fas fa-star",
    "cost_per_play": 10,
    "display_order": 100,
    "instructions": "Press space or touch screen to keep bird up between Obstacles"
}

Any idea why it's popping that error?
 
You need to follow the examples of one of the game files or have a grasp on how the arcade works. Thinking you can simply edit the json file, drop in some files and expect the game will work, is completely unrealistic.
 
MojoRisin said:
You need to follow the examples of one of the game files or have a grasp on how the arcade works. Thinking you can simply edit the json file, drop in some files and expect the game will work, is completely unrealistic.
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Hence why i asked, what is the format, it's not like there is a FAQ or any documentation for the "arcade" so we can see how it works, how unrealistic is that that users have to figure out why the arcade has a generic error that offers zero help on the subject?

Forums have zero posts on it.

Help help pages have nothing on it.

The zips for the few games that i tried have just 3 files in them, but we have to figure out them ourselves?

Where's that AI bot when you want to give a 1 rating.
 
You are attempting to do something that is outside the design of the script and I need to provide documentation for you to do that? Just because you can do it, does not mean I need to hold your hand through the process.

Yeah not happening..

You have the scripts in hand. Read and understand the code and you can develop games all day long. Nobody is preventing you from doing that.
 
MojoRisin said:
You are attempting to do something that is outside the design of the script and I need to provide documentation for you to do that? Just because you can do it, does not mean I need to hold your hand through the process.

Yeah not happening..

You have the scripts in hand. Read and understand the code and you can develop games all day long. Nobody is preventing you from doing that.
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I don't think you get the point here, the arcade addon itself is looking for specifics when uploading a ZIP file with game files, this function/operation is not in a zipped game file, it's in the addons source code. If i uploaded the almost identical json file with other game files, the game might be added but just not work because the file hierarchy is wrong, makes sense, we need to mind read this part but what doesn't is the fact the error says it can't find the json file and it's there, that's just bad error handling.

So you're asking the user to go through the source code of your addon to find out why it can't find the file game.json

You know what, it's just not worth the hassle, i'll just request a refund instead, and i'll be removing it.
 
tester said:
I don't think you get the point here, the arcade addon itself is looking for specifics when uploading a ZIP file with game files, this function/operation is not in a zipped game file, it's in the addons source code. If i uploaded the almost identical json file with other game files, the game might be added but just not work because the file hierarchy is wrong, makes sense, we need to mind read this part but what doesn't is the fact the error says it can't find the json file and it's there, that's just bad error handling.

So you're asking the user to go through the source code of your addon to find out why it can't find the file game.json

You know what, it's just not worth the hassle, i'll just request a refund instead, and i'll be removing it.
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by all means.. when it comes out that you are trying to use the script beyond its stated means, you might not get the results you wished for. The script operates and functions exactly as stated.

I will be sure and let the Xenforo developing community that this is how you operate when you dont get your way.
 
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