Welcome to SiteSmith Arcade

A two-minute tour of SiteSmith Arcade, made in SiteSmith Studio.

What Arcade is for

SiteSmith Arcade gives a game server community its own website and store. Players find your server address with a copy button, see who's online, read your news and rules, check the ban list and buy ranks or items. When someone buys a package, Arcade sends its console commands to your game server, so the purchase shows up in game.

Arcade hosts the website, not the game server. Your Minecraft, FiveM, Rust or other server keeps running wherever you host it now. Arcade talks to it through the SiteSmith plugin, through RCON, or by reading its status.

Open it from the Workspace app launcher: Arcade. The first page, All communities, lists your communities with their live player counts and this month's sales.

The examples in this course

Harbor & Pine Coffee runs two communities. Emberfall SMP is an established Minecraft survival server with two servers, a store, staff and a ban list. Harbor & Pine Craft is the new server for the coffee shop's regulars, which you'll watch being created. Inside a community, the sidebar groups the pages: Overview, Servers, Players and Deliveries at the top, then Store, Community and Setup.

Free and paid plans

Arcade has a free plan for everyone. It includes one community with a set number of game servers and store packages, the four site themes, your colors and logo, rules pages and a short player history. The site shows a small "Powered by SiteSmith Arcade" line.

The paid plans raise those limits and add more: custom domains, coupons, gift cards, a monthly goal bar, custom CSS, longer player history and no SiteSmith credit. Voting and leaderboards are on Business. Open Plan in the sidebar to see the current limits and prices for each plan.

What this course covers

1. Create a community and take it live
2. Add game servers and connect them
3. Build the store, then handle orders, refunds and coupons
4. Set up news, pages, the site's look, staff, bans, appeals and applications

Each section ends with a short quiz, and there's a course check at the end.