I am in the process of writing a Drupal Flash Games module which will support games from www.pnflashgames.com. To install a new game on your web site, you need to download and extract a game from the www.pnflashgames.com web site then upload it to a folder on the web server (I use files/games). From there, you create content a flash game and specify related game information, i.e., name, description, game file, author, height, width, background color, etc. If the game uploaded is scoring enabled, high scores for each user will be saved, and on the game's node the top 20 scores will be displayed.
My proof-of-concept works, albeit with a tweak to menu.inc. However, the module needs much more. Even though I am a software developer of 16 years, I am a novice at PHP and more like infancy-level at Drupal module developement. I am sure there are things I am doing wrong in regards to best practices in Drupal module development.
I could really use the help of some seasoned Drupal module developers to get this module complete so that the community can benefit from it. Before Drupal, I ran numerous Postnuke web sites with a similar module and you would be surprised how much traffic that simple module generated.
Things that need to be done:
- Add Top Players block
- Add Latest Top Scores block
- View games by categories (not completely up on Drupal taxonomy yet)