FIRST The Trivia Game

[charliet]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

A couple of usability observations:
- The 'Next Question' button doesn't seem to work for skipping a question until the timer has reached zero (or until you hit the 'Answer' button to make it go to zero)
- It's kind of annoying to have to manually clear the text out of the answer box when you move on to a new question - it would be better if this happened automagically when you click 'Next Question'

Great work; this has the potential to be fun.

duh, thanks. dunno how i forgot that stuff. implemented

--- changes ---
- took out the timer, it will come back later when I implement different Modes
- built in a system to prevent duplicate questions as much.
- some GUI changes were made to make things easier
- can now skip questions quickly

--- future ---
- different modes, with different limitations
-- modes will allow for a scoreboard system


thanks to all who are helping! keep up the great submissions and suggestions!

[Tottanka]

Just noticed at you only get one chance to answer a question correctly.
You might want to fix that one too, in one of the modes...

[charliet]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

Just noticed at you only get one chance to answer a question correctly.
You might want to fix that one too, in one of the modes...

hmm.. sounds good to me. ok, its implemented. now users can guess multiple times at a question until they get it right, or get fed up and can goto the next one.

http://www.charlieslab.com/trivia - if this things keeps up, I am also considering a domain purchase. feel free to suggest ideas there as well. thinking http://www.firsttrivia.org/

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by charliet

hmm.. sounds good to me. ok, its implemented. now users can guess multiple times at a question until they get it right, or get fed up and can goto the next one.

http://www.charlieslab.com/trivia - if this things keeps up, I am also considering a domain purchase. feel free to suggest ideas there as well. thinking http://www.firsttrivia.org/

Dont hurry with the purchase. See how it works for a couple of weeks.

Keep te great work =]

[charliet]

Reporting is now fully functional. So if you come across a problem, some spam, or whatever, please go ahead and report it and I will see it and take whatever action is necessary to fix the problem.

[Branden Ghena]

This isn't anything big, but typos bug me.

When you submit a new question, the message in green along the top says, "Your question was submit." the same for the error message, "Your question was not submit."

In your Quick, VERB NOUN and VERB It On NOUN For Points! category you spell robotics robitics.

[JackN]

The game is pretty sweet, I really enjoy testing my FIRST smarts. I would like to know the answer to the one about what team's mascot is a flying pig, I tried both Exploding Bacon and 1902 and neither was right, so what is that answer. Also the one about who is the 1337est programmer I don't know.

[Branden Ghena]

If you check my picture, the flying pig answer should be easy, and the 1337est programmer is definitely Charles. He did make the game after all.

[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by tawnos23

If you check my picture, the flying pig answer should be easy, and the 1337est programmer is definitely Charles. He did make the game after all.

Then who is the coolest one?

[Branden Ghena]

I posted the second question with multiple versions and capitalizations of Charles and Charlie before the new non-caps sensitive version started. Charles said he would delete repeat questions eventually.

The question I can't get is the team with the "brutal" 2 weeks System Engineering sessions. Its eating me up inside.

[wendymom]

[quote=JackN;638513]The game is pretty sweet, I really enjoy testing my FIRST smarts. I would like to know the answer to the one about what team's mascot is a flying pig, I tried both Exploding Bacon and 1902 and neither was right, so what is that answer. Also the one about who is the 1337est programmer I don't know.[/QUOT

Exploding bacon's mascot is a pig on a rocket......still a flying pig....just not one with wings!!!

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by tawnos23

I posted the second question with multiple versions and capitalizations of Charles and Charlie before the new non-caps sensitive version started. Charles said he would delete repeat questions eventually.

The question I can't get is the team with the "brutal" 2 weeks System Engineering sessions. Its eating me up inside.

330.

What I don't like about this game has nothing to do with the software.... It seems like people are just tooting their own horn and being way too specific. Also, most questions are '07 based. Enough of those.... Let's get some REAL trivia in there (First champ winner, first 2 time champ, etc...) from at least before 2000.

EDIT: This question is getting me;
What team number was the first team to win 3 regionals

Is that in one year? 3 in total? What counts a regional (in the early early days)?

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

330.

What I don't like about this game has nothing to do with the software.... It seems like people are just tooting their own horn and being way too specific. Also, most questions are '07 based. Enough of those.... Let's get some REAL trivia in there (First champ winner, first 2 time champ, etc...) from at least before 2000.

EDIT: This question is getting me;
What team number was the first team to win 3 regionals

Is that in one year? 3 in total? What counts a regional (in the early early days)?

Edit: A more stylish answer than what I had before.

Look at the domain name of this forum. The answer is right there.

1998 they won 3 regionals.

[Storcky]

This is a lot of fun, but is there any way that the answer could be checked by hitting enter as well as answer? I keep losing my questions this way.
Thanks!

[EricH]

FireFox won't allow repeats of one question. Also, I can't figure out how to put multiple teams in one answer, as one question seems to require.