DGC Quiz for 100th Episode Anniversary

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  • rnlf
    Keymaster
    Podcaster
    #9193

    Hi all!

    We’re planning a celebration for our 100th episode. One thing we want to do is have a quiz!

    So I figured it would be cool if everybody was able to send question for the quiz. There is no tooling for this now and I have only just started working on the (DOS based!) quiz program, but I would like to start collecting your questions already.

    So here’s how to send in your questions:

    Send me one or multiple text files, each containing the following lines:

    N: Your Name
    C: Category name
    D: Difficulty
    Q: The question line 1
    Q: The question line 2
    S: Sound file
    W: Wrong answer
    W: Wrong answer
    W: Wrong answer
    A: Correct answer
    

    Your name will be displayed somewhere along the question.

    We don’t have a fixed set of categories, yet, just pick a sensible name for the category the question will appear in and I will see to it that I reduce the categories down to a sensible number an put everything in a related category.

    Difficulty should be a number between 1 and 10.

    You can have 1 or 2 question lines, none of the lines must be longer than 76 characters (they will be displayed at the same time, this is just so I don’t have to deal with text formatting ;))

    You’ll need exactly three wrong and one correct answers lines. The answers must not be longer than 70 characters.

    Sound file is optional. This can be used to play a sound in addition to the question. Keep it short (shorter than 10 seconds). The file will definitely be downsampled to 22050Hz and there’s a good chance the file will have to be at most 2.9 seconds at 8bit mono, depending on how much time I find to code this, so keep that in mind ;))

    If you want to send multiple questions in one file, separate them by a blank line.

    Here’s an example:

    N: rnlf
    C: The Club
    D: 7
    Q: Who is the only person to appear on all episode?
    S: tijn-voice-sample.mp3
    W: rnlf
    W: The guy from LGR
    W: Pix
    A: Tijn
    
    N: rnlf
    C: DOS Games
    D: 10
    Q: What's the name of the southern most city on
    Q: the game map of Transarctia?
    W: Berlin
    W: Rome
    W: Marrakesh
    A: Tibesti
    

    Oh, and finally, make sure the file is encoded as 8bit ASCII (or isolatin or utf8, but only use ASCII compatible characters ;)). Otherwise it might not display correctly.

    Send them by mail to the club-account: club@dosgameclub.com.


    TigerQuoll
    Participant
    Podcaster
    #9215

    ‘Kay, I’m working on a bunch for you.
    I’m having trouble with the difficulty if I can be honest… we’re already working in such a niche space, it’s really hard to know how common knowledge some of these tidbits are!

    Anyway, do you have a deadline?


    rnlf
    Keymaster
    Podcaster
    #9216

    None, yet! Just make the difficulties relative. The one you think might be easiest gets a 1, the hardest one a 10, everything else in between 😉

    It doesn’t have to be perfect, just “Pi times thumb” as the Germans say.


    rnlf
    Keymaster
    Podcaster
    #9217

    Oh, there’s also a chance time constraints will not make sounds possible. I know by saying this I probably won’t receive a single one with sounds from anybody.


    TigerQuoll
    Participant
    Podcaster
    #9218

    The problem is that the difficulty of all the questions I come up with are either a 1 if you have played the game, or a 10 if you haven’t! Nevermind… I’ll keep winging it and do my best.

    In typical fashion I’ve bitten off more than I can chew, and I’ve decided to make 1 question for every game the club has covered. If I actually finish, I apologize in advance!

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