Geoquiz

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Geoquiz

Geoquiz is a geography guessing game.

Screenshot

GeoquizActivity.jpg

Versions

  • 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 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"
  • 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
  • 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 coutries are actually purple instead of a nice yellow-orange
  • the code is hosted at [1]

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