Mega Quiz - Quiz Builder

Hi scar_pragma.

There is no provision for scoring in this way as they quiz stands now. There’s no reason why that couldn’t be done in a modified version of the quiz, but that’s outside the scope of advice / 1 line mods that I would offer for free. If you would like a quote for doing the work, please send me an email via my activeden profile, giving as much detail as you can of how you would like the modified quiz to behave.

Hi, we want to custom your quiz, and we need your help. Firstly, we have our own list of questions and we just want to offer two possible answers A or B; so, please can you tell us where and how to indicate this without breaking the game? and another question… where we have to indicate which is the correct answer. Thanks a lot.

We really hope you would help us; as we realised that you don’t post anything since 1 year ago, and we hope it could be because anyone had any doubt during this time, because we really need your help to work out our dubt. We will wait for your response. Thanks a lot.

Hi OriginaliCopia.

I do monitor comments on my work. The only reason there’s been nothing written for a year is that no one has asked me anything! (I pride myself that’s because of the quality and depth of the documentation I write, which often takes longer to write than the application!)

Unfortunately there is no easy ‘one line answer’ to your question. Having four possible answers is one of the core features / part of the design, so there is no simple way to implement what you are after.

My two suggestions are 1) invent two new wrong answers for each of your questions. If you want to make it ‘easy’ for someone to get the right answer (I’m assuming you do since you were planning to have only one wrong answer on show) then why not make the two new answers obviously wrong?

and 2) if you definitely need a multiple choice choice with only two possible answers, contact me via my profile page here (click my minifig avatar) and we can talk about me producing a custom version for you.

Thanks a lot for your response! Well, the fact is that we decided to bought this game just to do this work quickly, as we read that this game was so customizable and easy, but now we don’t know what to do. Because we realised that we really need to get this work in few days, and we thought that it would be a great idea to buy it done and just make a few changes, but now it seems to be more complicated that we tought. Firstly, it’s essential to offer this game with just two answers, not 4. Do you think it would bé too complicated? Thanks

Thanks for your response. One more question, please. Do you think is it possible to offer one information text or another depending on the score result? Thanks

Hi OriginaliCopia.

Yes, that’s a core feature of the quiz. The last bullet point on page 1 of the documentation says…

“Fully editable ‘feedback’ phrases / links depending on the player’s score – Once the quiz is over, the player learns their score, and receives feedback. You decide what the game says to them. Can also be used to deliver ‘links’ to other pages / sites depending on the player’s score.”

You can find a complete step by step description of how to do this starting at page 13 of the documentation.

Thanks, I think that we have achieved. Just one more question, when I play the game firstly it seems to works right, but when I restart the game sometimes it show me one question as undefined, is it possible that I have done something wrong or that I use CS5 .5 and it would be better to use a low version. Thanks.

The are two most likely reasons for this, either of which will be solved by looking at frame 1, layer ‘code’ in movie flip ‘quiz_mc’ (the first frame of the main timeline of the quiz.

Either…

1) the line of code number_questions = 31; (line 2 in my original version). This number must match the actual number of questions in the quiz. For example, if this number were set to 31, but you only had 30 questions, then occasionally (when question number 31 actually came up in a quiz) you would get the problem you described.

or

2) (less likely, but still possible) you have missed the closing quotation marks on one of your questions. So for example, if line 34 which should read

q4 = “Who played Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’?”;

actually read this…

q4 = “Who played Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’?;

(missing final double quotes) then this may also cause the problem you described.