Arcade-UI

The main interface for the arcade cabinet. The system to choose the game to play and view its leaderboards

Dependencies

1. processing4
2. jinput installation instructions: Pace the librarie jar at %SketchBook%/libraries/jinput/library/jinput.jar extract the files from the natives jar and place them at %SketchBook%/libraries/jinput/library/

Configuring games

1. Edit data/games.csv
2. Add a new line for your game
3. The first value(before the first coma) is the display name of the game
4. The second value is the file path to the game icon
5. The third value is the path to the game launch script / game executable
6. The fourth value id the leaderboard mode: 0 for simple mode, 1 for complex mode. More on the leaderboards below
7. The fifth and final value is the path the the game's leaderboard csv file

All together an example line in the game file might look like this:

Example game,/path/to/game/icon.png,/path/to/launch/script.sh,0,/path/to/leaderboard.csv

Leaderboard System

The big feature of this arcade UI system if the custom leaderboard system.
2 types of leaderboard are supported: Simple and Complex
All leaderboards are stored in csv files

Simple leaderboard (mode 0)

This leaderboard type is based on a single list of names and scores
Each line of the leaderbord file contains a sigle value. This value will consist of the name and score of the player. The first 10 scores in the file will be displayed.
Example simple Leaderbaord file:

Bob --- 1000
Joe --- 900
Jef --- 800
Bil --- 700
Jak --- 600
CIA --- 500
Sup --- 400
Kid --- 300
Fil --- 200
Rik --- 0

Note: it is up to the game to order the scores correctly

Complex loaderboard (mode 1)

This mode is also known as the multiple levels mode. This mode allows for multiple levels / catagories to have unique score boards on a single game.
Each line of the leaderboard files represens a diffrent level. The first value on the line is the name of the level. After that come the names and scores in value pairs, up to 10 scores. Games can have as many level as they want. Example complex leaderboard file:

level 1 name,name 1,1:36,name 2,2:22,name 3,2:58,name 4,4:02,name 5,4:10,name 6,5:34,name 7,5:30,name 8,6:59,name 9,7:57,name 10,1685:55
level 2 name,name 1,1:36,name 2,2:22,name 3,2:58,name 4,4:02,name 5,4:10,name 6,5:34,name 7,5:30,name 8,6:59,name 9,7:57,name 10,1685:55

Note: it is up to the game to order the scores correctly