So I’ve been working on this project for almost a year. In your free time, of course. And with full enthusiasm, since I really like this kind of thing myself. Now, however, I already regret it, t.To. during this time I could learn some Nodejs with Angular and go to work, and not suffer from bullshit. Oh well..
Of course, I’m still a long way from game development, but for a quiz you don’t need all sorts of canvases, virtual DOMs and so on. Built on good old JQuery. It’s pointless to criticize the design – I’m not a designer. Now, I’ll earn the first hundred bucks, then I’ll order a design 🙂
In short, the quiz is not quite ordinary. There are not many questions, now there are 350 of them+. But I decided not to take the easy route and instead of text questions I make short video clips (essentially looped GIFs). The point is to guess what will happen next, how the video will end, or what is even shown here. After the answer I show the full gif with the answer and a short text.
15 questions per week are collected in a round. The questions are mostly educational, about science and inventions: “What is this thing for??", "What kind of gadget is this?", about the incident: "What will happen next?", sometimes even about something funny: "How will it end??"..
Goodies include coins and achievements. So https://yallabetcasino.co.uk/ that it’s not too boring to play. The principle is simple – 5 coins for the correct answer. Plus bonuses at the end of the round for a good rate of correct answers.
The pain of the whole project is the selection of questions. Watching the feed on Reddit, collections of gifs, videos on Youtube for the queries “amazing”, “incredible”, “unbelievable” is now my daily activity.
Then cutting the video. A looped video fragment of up to 6 seconds – this will be a video question. Frames are carefully selected, slowed down or sped up, stitched together to get a video response – a squeeze of the best frames up to 20 seconds long. So that the player doesn’t get tired of watching. You can call it a gif or a vine with an answer.
In addition to questions and answers and gifs, I decided to write a separate article on each question. So that after the answer you can get more complete information on the topic. But judging by the statistics, players only read them in about 1 case out of 10. Probably, after all, the gameplay is more important than boring reading.
Then comes the compilation of 4 answer options. Sometimes I wonder why 4 and not 5 or 3. Where did this standard come from in quizzes?? Well, three options are selected with a bang. There may not be enough imagination for the fourth. Hence it happens that the last option is somehow stupid or too obvious.
The problem to some extent is cheating. Since players who have achieved the “50 correct answers in a row” achievement in a day bear little resemblance to intellectual geniuses or Wasserman-erudites. God be with them.
In general, the project brings satisfaction and the feeling that it has done for the people not only something fun, but also useful (in terms of self-education, broadening their horizons, etc.).n.). It’s especially nice when you see players over 60 in the rankings+
One of the disappointments is that you cannot enjoy the game yourself, t.To. know all the answers in advance. But it’s joyful when you watch your wife or parents play (the kids are not yet old enough to take the quiz)…
And when you post your project publicly, what feelings do you experience??