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Geoquiz .xo Bundle – Geoquiz-4 .xo Gordon McCreight

[edit] Geoquiz

Geoquiz is a geography guessing game.

[edit] Screenshot

[edit] 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

• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

Facts about GeoquizRDF feed

Activity bundle	http://www.gmccreight.com/geoquiz/Geoquiz-4.xo  +
Activity genre	Games  +
Activity version	4  +
Contact person	Gmccreight  +
Short description	Geoquiz is a geography guessing game.
Software release	7.1.2 (656)  +, and Candidate  +
Source code	http://github.com/gmccreight/geoquiz/tree/master  +
Sugar icon	+