{"id":508,"date":"2011-12-28T12:23:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T12:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/?p=508"},"modified":"2012-08-22T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:00:57","slug":"kodu-quiz-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiveclassroom.net\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"Kodu Quiz Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

When presenting at the Microsoft Partners in Learning forum, I was asked if it was possible to create a quiz-style game using Kodu. At first I thought this would not be possible but after giving it some more thought, I realised that this is actually fairly straight-forward. After reading this blog post<\/a> from Alfred Thompson<\/a> I thought using a tagged conversation was the way forward. However, I decided to simplify this by just listening for a particular button to be pressed. In my game players can answer multiple choice questions using A<\/span>, B<\/span>, X<\/span> or Y<\/span> on the gamepad.<\/p>\n

The screenshots below show pages 2 and 3 of the character (Stick) who asks the question when bumped into by the player (Sputnik):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>First the Stick asks a question then goes to Page 3. On this page it responds to the answer pressed on the gamepad. In this example the correct answer is given with the A button, in which the player is awarded with a pushpad (key) for the next part of the game. If the player gives a different answer the Stick will respond telling them they have the answer wrong and to try again. In my game I allow the player to have as many guesses as they like but this could be changed to make the game more difficult.<\/p>\n

Currently the game does have a couple of bugs, one example is that the sticks are supposed to be closed until their key has been collected but this only seems to work sporadically and I haven’t quite figured out why?!<\/p>\n

You can download the game here<\/a>. Please feel free to try it out, use or adapt in any way!<\/p>\n

For more Kodu demonstrations I will be on the Microsoft stand<\/a>\u00a0(D40) at BETT<\/a> from 11th to 14th January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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