Mastering Joomla: How to Add Games to Your Joomla Site

Gaming has become an integral part of our culture as videogames continue to increase in popularity across the world. Joomla makes it very easy to post online games to your website. Joomla easily supports a huge library of games available for downloading and publishing. With Joomla, you can also easily manage a large number of flash video games for your website.

A very popular game application for Joomla is the dcsFlashGames Arcade. You can download this link. This game module provides many tools for managing an online arcade. The dcsFlashGames Arcade provides a high score system for keeping track of players' scores; a game voting system, which allows users to vote on their favorite games; a Hall of Fame, that lists all-time high scores; a Scoreboard, for displaying games and scores on the website; and a rating system, in order to rate games based on their content. In addition to all of these features, dcsFlashGames Arcade supports eight languages.

There are many more game compilations available for Joomla. The Joomla Flash Casino, for example, features casino games like baccarat, blackjack, roulette, video poker, craps, and a slot machine. Ulti Sudoku is another popular extension used for playing sudoku online and can be downloaded from www.puzzlerscave.com. It features a free sudoku puzzle at your site daily. Note, however, that Ulti Sudoku is specifically for joomla 1.5; it is not backwards compatible with Joomla 1.0

Joomla game packages vary depending on the content and type of game. Games may contain a component file, a module file, or a combination of the two. Before downloading a games package, you have to know what types of files are contained within the games package so that you know how to install it.

Remember this: always install component files before you install module files

Installing games on Joomla is almost identical to adding other extensions.

Step #1
First you have to download the extension from the Internet. Once you have selected the desired game, you need to download it.

Step #2
The file will most likely be in .zip format, which is a compressed file. Save the file on any folder on your computer so that you will be able to access it later.

Step #3
After you saved the file, you need to log onto the Joomla administrator panel and go to the Installers menu.

Step #4
On the Installers menu, you will need to click Upload File and Install.

Step #5
On the menu, you will need to click Browse. You now need to select the file of the game extension you downloaded earlier.

Step #6
Once selected, click Upload and install. After you have installed the game, click Continue complete the installation.

And you are done!