Hoard Hunter - the plugin
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The main plugin (version 0.5) for the Hoard Hunter game is now available for download from the link below.
This initial version requires that payments received via PayPal are approved manually. There will be an update very soon with a more integrated PayPal option. If you would like to be notified of new releases of the game plugin and / or would like installation and running support then please consider making a charitable donation using the Donate button below. Donors will be invited to the private Hoard Hunter group where support, ideas, update notifications and links to development versions of the system will be posted.
Installation Instructions
This plugin is dependent on a Hoard Hunter compatible theme being installed and in use on your WordPress system.
To install this plugin you must first unzip the downloaded archive and then upload the created hoardhunter directory to your wp-content/plugins directory. Next, login to your WordPress administration system, navigate to the Plugins menu and activate the plugin.
Setting up your pages.
Once the plugin is activated you need to create some pages within your WordPress system. You will need pages for the following (A downloadable pack of content and images for these pages, as used on the main Hoard Hunter site is available for donors):
- The Story - A back story for the game detailing the reason behind picking a sector and how it relates to the prize.
- How to Play - Instructions on how a user will play the game and what the tiles and message boxes mean.
- About - Some information about you, the game and what the payments will be used for.
- Official rules - Some legal blurb about the game and the games rules.
- Credits - some credits for the game.
- Welcome message - This is the initial message that appears when the game page is displayed
Once you have created these pages you can then navigate to the Hoard Hunter page in the Settings menu on your WordPress administration system and link your pages to the relevant Menus.
At the very bottom you can enter a Twitter username and password if you want notifications of reserved sectors sent to a Twitter account.
Running the game
The game can be controlled from the main Hoard Hunter menu in your WordPress administration system. At any time you can see (and edit) any of the available, purchased or reservered Sectors. Sectors listed in the No Payment tab, have been reserved but a payment hasn’t been associated with them within 24 hours.
Once you have a sector reserved and / or purchased you can then also edit the details of the purchaser. The search box in the top right hand corner of the page will allow you to search on any details of the sector or purchaser (such as email address, paypal reference number, name, etc..)
July 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
we are back for the plugin, we have an idea to use it when the installaton is ready we will back again to give you the link,
it is a really good idea,
be backsoon,
thanks a lot
Wangjel
July 11th, 2008 at 4:36 am
Is there any way to add more sectors?
July 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
@Dag: Yes there is, but it requires edits in two places within the hoardhunter.php file. Open the file in a text editor and look for the class variable $inplay. Change this from 100 to the number of sectors. Next look for the function BuildMapGrid and change the numwide and numhigh settings to values that will ensure that all your sectors will be displayed.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Hi there
Great idea this! I would like to use it for a competition on our rainforest charity site. Once I get up and running and let the trustees know I’ll drop you a donation.
Quick question, once I have it installed, how to I stick it on a page? It says the home page is /
Can I install this on to my own page called competition or such like?
Thx for the time in reading this, appreciate it
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
So now I have actually read the information on the site (sorry!) I now understand that it requires a Hoard theme.
I’ll have a think about how we might make that work, but speaking with one of the guys that want to sponsor the competition for our relaunched site (large camera firm) they are keen to keep the comp within the confines of our site.
Is there a way I could utilise the CSS and PHP into a page of my own do you think? Or would that go against the way you’d like it to be used?
Any help much appreciated
Rob
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
@Rob: Hi Rob, it is possible to fit the game within an existing theme but you will need to create a specific page template (such as game.php) that fits within the existing site, then create a page within your blog that uses that template to power the game. Have a look in the index.php of the hoardhunter theme to see what the minimum that you will need in the page template (such as the messagebox div).