Arcavio – HTML5 Game Portal PHP Script

Arcavio is a self-hosted HTML5 gaming portal with a complete administration dashboard. It lets you launch a branded gaming website where visitors can discover and play browser-based games, create accounts, save favourites and explore game categories.

The portal includes a responsive dark design, homepage sections for trending and popular games, dedicated game pages, player controls, ratings, recently played games and problem reporting.

Arcavio also provides a flexible homepage builder, game library management, publisher submissions, content management, advertising placements and role-based administration.

The package includes 12 original HTML5 games. An optional starter catalogue of 130 GameDistribution games is also available during installation, subject to GameDistribution approval for your domain.

Built with PHP 8.2+ and SQLite, Arcavio includes a web installer and requires no MySQL setup, Composer, Node.js or frontend build process.

Ideal for: Gaming website owners, HTML5 game publishers, developers and entrepreneurs building their own browser gaming portals.

Gaming Portal

• Modern dark and fully responsive website design.

• Homepage hero carousel with autoplay.

• Homepage sections for Arcavio Originals, Editor's Picks, Trending, New and Most Popular games.

• Game search and category pages.

• Player favourites and recently played games.

• Dedicated game pages with theatre mode and fullscreen.

• Restart, star ratings and similar-game recommendations.

• Share sheet and game problem reporting.

Included Games

• 12 original HTML5 games with artwork and self-hosted files.

• Optional 130-game GameDistribution starter catalogue.

• Support for custom self-hosted HTML5 games.

• Embedding from approved third-party game providers.

• Trusted HTTPS host restrictions for game embeds.

Homepage Builder

• Drag-and-drop homepage section ordering.

• Hide or rename homepage rows.

• Configure the number of games shown in each section.

• Create hand-picked or category-based sections.

Game Library Management

• Add and edit games.

• Bulk publish, draft, disable, feature, move and delete actions.

• CSV and JSON export.

• JSON and CSV import with preview.

• Import history and retry failed records.

• Temporarily hide broken or unavailable games without losing play counts or ratings.

User Accounts

• Player registration and sign-in.

• User profiles and avatar uploads.

• Email password reset.

• Favourite games and recently played history.

• Publisher game submission form.

• Moderation queue for submitted games.

Content Management

• Blog with cover images and sidebar.

• Editable About, Privacy and Terms pages.

• Game reports and publisher submission management.

• Website content and maintenance settings.

Administration

• Administrator, Editor and Moderator roles.

• Individual permissions.

• Dashboard and game management tools.

• Advertising placement management.

• Website settings and maintenance mode.

• Read-only live demo mode.

SEO and Monetization

• Individual SEO titles and meta descriptions for game pages.

• Canonical URLs and Open Graph metadata.

• Structured JSON-LD data.

• Automatic 301 redirects when game URLs change.

• Sitemap index with chunked game sitemaps.

• Google AdSense placements on homepage, game pages and category listings.

• Advertising ID validation.

Security and Reliability

• Administrator account created during installation.

• CSRF protection on forms.

• Rate-limited sign-in, registration and game reporting.

• Sandboxed game embeds.

• Avatar upload validation.

• Transactional database upgrades.

• Automatic installer lock after successful installation.

• PHP 8.2 or newer.

• Tested with PHP 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5.

• Built-in SQLite database support through the pdo_sqlite extension.

• PHP extensions: pdo_sqlite, json, session and fileinfo.

• Apache, LiteSpeed or Nginx web server.

• Apache and LiteSpeed require mod_rewrite for subfolder installations.

• HTTPS recommended for production websites.

Installation: No MySQL database setup, Composer, Node.js, npm or frontend build process required.

Optional third-party games: The GameDistribution starter catalogue requires approval from GameDistribution for your own domain before those games can be played.

Documentation: Offline documentation is included in the package.