Project - Blade Runner Quiz
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Between 2001 and 2005, I was managing Bladezone and had spent a lot of time discussing the film in the Bladezone forums and also reading several of the books available on the subject.
So, I had the idea of creating a quiz application for all Blade Runner fans to test their knowledge.
Contents:
Overview
I originally implemented the application in javascript with the intention of adding it to the Bladezone website, but then decided to convert the project into a standalone executable written in Blitz Basic and developed and tested on Windows XP Home Edition.
The final version was to have a global score board and question sets downloaded from the internet.
In the end, I left Bladezone and lost interest in completing the project.
I have no enthusiasm for completing the project in it's current form. If I was going to continue the project, I would probably go back to a javascript version - the browsers of today are much more capable than the browsers of 2001.
Project Status
I would estimate that the project is probably in the region of 60% complete.
- Implemented Features:
- Retro-tech user interface
- Sound effects sampled from the film
- Question set compiler
- Different question types:
- Single answer
- True or False
- Choose one or more
- Put in order
- Intended features:
- Picture questions
- Global score board
- Question sets downloaded from the internet
Development History
This is one of those projects that I could never seem to get the momentum up long enough to finish. I would shelve it, move onto something else and then re-visit it a year or so later.
- 2001 - Experimented with a Javascript version
- 2003 - Re-visited
- Abandoned the Javascript implementation
- Created a new, standalone version using Blitz Basic
- 2006 - Re-visited
- Re-worked the code
- Added new question types
- Added a question compiler
- Shelved indefinitely
Screen Shot
While recording the video demo, I took a screen shot.
Video Demostration
I created a video of the quiz machine running on my old Windows XP machine. The sequence shows a very small (and easy) question set that was designed primarily to test the different question types.