Now that's ironic jim, sinse I myself am pretty good on classical music,
passable at opera (though due to too much vibrato it's not something I do
hugely, albeit that I can sing a fair few operatic peaces), but often get
stumped on pop music or celebrity related film or tv stuff.
I am also relatively okay with history and science as well, but I always
find when I'm answering questions to quiz shows there are far too many that
point to current trends, recent reality tv or tallent things or current
celibrities, that, as someone who doesn't have any interest in that type of
thing can't answer at all.
Btw, I really liked one half of the "I'm a celebrity get me out of here"
idea, carting lots of useless supposedly famous people off into the jungle
far from civilization. The only problem was, they had to bring them back!
:D.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kitchen" <[email protected]>
To: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Jeopardy?
Hi Thomas,
Depending on the category I can answer every question as well. But due to
lack of education or lack of interest there are categories that I would
not know a single question. You know maybe like opera, classical music,
Broadway shows, current movies or current pop culture. But that is also
why I mostly write games with random elements rather than puzzles. I mean
if I know the answers to the game, where would be the fun for me to play
it?
BFN
----- Original Message -----
Hi Jim,
Well, I don't own a database of questions either, but I'm pretty sure I
could create one pretty easily. Thanks to my college education I often
times can hold my own when listening to Jeopardy, and my extensive
studying of history, geography, science, art, and music could probably be
used to create the beginnings of a decent database. Plus I suppose I could
always purchase the board game from the store, and use it as a starter
database as well.
The only problem I have with Trivia and quiz games is that since the
developer has to know the answer to every question asked there is no way
he or she can lose unless there is some kind of custom database created by
other gamers. That's where your Trivia engine comes in handy because if I
create a Trivia file I will know the correct answers, but if someone else
created the file I won't necessarily know all the answers. So I would say
that having some way to add custom databases or quiz files would be
necessary here.
On 5/25/2012 10:28 AM, Jim Kitchen wrote:
Hi Thomas,
You make a very good point about spelling the answers in a Jeopardy game.
And the multiple choice doesn't seem to be a real good solution either.
My other problem with making a Jeopardy game is that I do not own a data
base of questions and answers. That is what has been nice about people
creating and sharing trivia files for my trivia game engine.
BFN
Jim
Computers run on smoke. Yep, that's why that if you see all of the smoke
coming out of your computer it ain't gonna run no more.
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