"Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Quiz Game
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Copyright 2004 Kyle Fritz
This Flash game is designed to take the questions from a text file and display them in an interface similar to the popular game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". It reads each question from the text file one at a time and its corresponding answer. That answer is randomly put in one of the four possible answer choices. The other answer choices are filled with random answers from the other questions. Should the user answer correctly, their score increments. If the user answers incorrectly or runs out of time, their score decrements by two points.
This Flash game was designed with Macromedia Flash MX. The sounds were taken from the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" television show. The graphical elements are based on those seen on the show. The producers of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" do not endorse this product. It was originally designed for students studying Spanish to practice vocabulary; however, it can be used for anything.
The text file must be formatted correctly in order for the game to work as desired. The file name must correspond to that in the the second scene of the Flash file. The default is "questions.txt". The first line must have the text &question#= (replace # with the number of the question starting with 0) and then the question followed by another &. The next line must have the text &answer#= (replace # with the number of the question starting with 0) and then the answer for the previous question followed by another &. This should keep going until all questions have been listed. The last line should say &numOfQuestions=#& (replace # with the number of questions listed). An example file, titled "questions.txt" is included.
To assist you in adding words to this game, a Java program has been included. You must have the Java Virtual Machine installed on your computer. If you are running Windows, double-click on the "Executable.bat" file. Otherwise, you need to run the "AddWords.jar" file with the console open. Once the program is running, simply follow the onscreen instructions and a text file will be created in the same directory as the AddWords.jar file.
Scene One: "Preloader"
Not much to modify here. This scene only loads the music, not the file. You may remove my copyright notice if you wish.
Scene Two: "File Loader"
On the "Actions" layer, in the first frame, are the main file loading actions. You may wish to change the values of the variable pointsToEarn and pointsToLose. You also may wish to change the line list.load("questions.txt"); to correspond to the name of your text file.
Scene Three: "Question"
You may wish to change the length of time a question is displayed. To do this, remove frames from the time line to correspond with the desired length of time and change the values show in the "time" layer accordingly.
Scene Four: "Final Score"
Not much to modify here.
This game was designed by Kyle Fritz for use on www.espanoliribarne.com to assist Spanish I students to practice vocabulary.
This game and readme file was submitted to FlashKit by Kyle Fritz so that others may take advantage of this games usefulness.
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