XO ImageQuiz
Perhaps a better name for the activity is 'ImageQuiz'
The Idea
- Design and implementation of an easy and fun, educational image-quiz for kids.
- The goal is to connect a high fun-factor with as many educational aspects and features of the xo as possible.
- Internet user can generate content by submitting new questions, images and imagemaps online. All in one page.
- Some first ideas can be found here http://www.linuxuser.at/xoquiz
- Aim at playful learning instead of edutainment:
- Built-in modes to contribute and share questions, ratings and translations
- It can be used to gain specific knowledge about different topics with a high fun-factor
- The game provides introductive reading and/or images in addition to the answers
- Mixed approaches to picking questions (Categories, Flashcard System, Interests, ...)
- Browsing through categories, questions and answers
- Open-source images only
The concept is still in development :-) ideas are welcome! (chris(at)linuxuser.at)
Description
Summary
It's all about the educational factors in the quiz project:
- Easy to pick up knowledge while playing (or submitting questions)
- Explanatory images, perhaps informative answers (text, introductive reading, maybe a second image)
- Flashcard System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashcard)
- Easy possibility to create and share quizzes by kids (image upload or xo-cam)
- Ability to use an existing image to create new questions
- Possibility to create and share translations
- Rating of other contributions
- At least 3 difficulty levels (maybe for different ages, ...)
- In-game translatable questions
- Categories like Arts, Astronomy, Food, Geography, Health, Technics, ...
- Single-Player as well as Multiplayer
- Including limited hd in the concept
- Modular structure of the activity
- Exchangeable categories via Mesh or Schoolserver
Game Modes
This are just basic ideas; the concept is not finished yet. If you have any ideas or comments, please post them.
- Single Player
- Quiz Mode
- Choose any category (or all) and have a quick game
- 'Educational' Mode
- Get more background information
- Get stats on which questions how often answered
- Quiz Mode
- Multiplayer
- Coop Mode (Teamplay)
- How many clicked on the right spot
- See the others cursor and all have to move to one
- VS Mode
- Challenge one or more player in any category and difficulty level over the Mesh
- Coop Mode (Teamplay)
- Submit Mode (using the xo-cam or uploaded images)
- Rate Contributions
- Translate Questions
Ideas
A basic, high-quality database is crucial for the game as well as open-source images. An idea would be to apply web2 thoughts and let users contribute and rate the content - should be fun and easy too ;-). I can imagine three ways to generate a good database:
- It could be possible to get a digg or such and have lots of people visiting the project and perhaps submitting questions
- Some kind of content-jam
- Contributions of a core team
Development
Overview
The activity for the xo will be written in Python using:
- Pygame / the olpc pygames wrapper for display and xo interaction (cam, net, mesh)
- Pysqlite as data-storage system
- Unicode
Further Readings
- Pygame
- PyGame Reference
- PythonGameProgramming (Excellent, quick diy-introduction on images, sound, display, event handling, ...)
- PyGame Tutorials Overview
Status
- The page for submitting and rating new questions, and for playing the contributions is online at http://www.linuxuser.at/xoquiz
- The python activity is currently being started:
- It's already possible to use the web db
- Image display works
- Polygon creation works
- Check if click is inside polygon works
The project is open for contributers! Leave a note in this page's Talk, or drop me a line (chris at linuxuser.at) if you are interested!
Roadmap
* November 07: Finishing the web-application * December 07: Building basic high-quality database, Start Single Player of Activity * January 08: Single Player Mode * February 08: Tests and Multiplayer * March 08: Final Design and Testing * April 08: Release of version 1.0
Involved People
- Chris Hager (Austria) (chris(at)linuxuser.at)
- Georg Witwer (Austria)
If you want to get involved in this project, or just interested in more information, write me a mail! We're happy for all kinds of support :-)