Geoquiz
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Geoquiz
Geoquiz is a geography guessing game.
Screenshot
Versions
- 4
- Thanks to Nick Doiron for a patch making:
- Swaziland, Lesotho, and Gambia show up correctly (Gambia is small, but visible)
- The buttons cycle from top to bottom and vice-versa
- Thanks to Nick Doiron for a patch making:
- 3
- Added South America and a front page where you pick the continent
- 2
- Added a message about which keys to use.
- Discovered a mistake in the MANIFEST which created double files in the .xo zip file (no big deal, but fixed)
- Gave credit to the Maze activity in the code. Used a lot of their code in this Activity.
- 1
- Released to the wild
Known issues
- as of v4 :
- still quits on completion. It should say something like "congratulations!" when you are done and let you pick again, instead
- as of v3 :
- three little bugs in africa : Gambia, Lesotho and Swaziland do not show up as yellow when they come up in the list... they are too small perhaps in the svg. adding a 2px halo around each country should solve that problem generally, if possible...
- one large bug in africa : Zimbabwe is called "Mozambique"
- Is this really true? I just double-checked and it doesn't appear to be true to me, Gordon, the developer. (Gordon)
- it quits on completion. It should say something like "congratulations!" when you are done and let you pick again, instead
Feature requests
- Adjust difficulty : let players choose the # of options per question, from 3 to 7
- There's actually a hidden way to do this. Hold down the shift key then hit the + key. You'll get two more country options. The minus key removes two options. (Gordon)
- Add language support : there are good 100-language lists of country names.
- For extra difficulty, support randomly selecting a language for each country name shown, from a given set of languages
Information for programmers
This little Activity is still a work in progress, but it's pretty functional already.
- Uses SVG for the country shapes
- Has multiple continents, but only displays the names in English
- Intended to be multi-player, but haven't written the code for that yet
- When you finish the game it crashes rather than having a cool "TADA" type screen
- The SVG colors aren't displaying like I think they should, so the highlighted countries are actually purple instead of a nice yellow-orange
- The code is hosted at [1]
Activity Summary
| Icon: | Sugar icon::Image:activity-geoquiz.svg |
| Genre: | Activity genre::Games |
| Activity group: | ,|x|Activity group::x}} |
| Short description: | Short description::Geoquiz is a geography guessing game. |
| Description: | |
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| Repository URL: | Source code::http://github.com/gmccreight/geoquiz/tree/master |
| Available languages: | ,|x|Available languages::x}} |
| Available languages (codes): | ,|x|Language code::x}} |
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| URL from which to download the latest .xo bundle | Activity bundle::http://www.gmccreight.com/geoquiz/Geoquiz-4.xo |
| Last tested version number: | Activity version::4 |
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| Ready for testing (development has progressed to the point where testers should try it out): | ,|x|Ready for testing::x}} |
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