Tutorial Game Show Presenter |
Quiz Player The "Quiz Player" opens with the title screen of your Game Show (Fig.1). (If it's not the title you were expecting, remember the name of your quiz and the name of your show are two different things.) Depending on how you came into the "Quiz Player," your game show will either start up automatically or it will hold on the title screen and wait for your command. You can change the text of the title with the command SHOW TITLE AND SET-UP under the PREFERENCES menu.
Many of the menu items for the Player were covered above in the discussion of PREFERENCES. (That's where you set up how the show looks, how it flows, etc.) Here are summaries of the other menu commands that were not covered above: QUIZ MENU: (Fig.2)
Most commands from this menu were discussed abow, when we were reviewing the Quiz Editor. Let us just mention the differences here:
Under the EDIT menu, QUIZ EDITOR simply closes the player and opens the quiz editor. Also under EDIT, the ADJUST SCORE command pauses the game show and opens a window in which you can change any player's current score. This feature gives you a way to deal with many situations – operator error (you pressed the wrong key when the player actually had the right answer), time ran out as they player gave the correct answer, you caught a player cheating, reconsideration of a given answer, etc. Changes made with this command are applied immediately to the game in-progress. However, the changes may not be reflected in the optional Score Log file. Smooth Moves in the Quiz Player: Want Multiple Games in One Show? There are two ways to do this. Click anywhere on the stage at the moment the audience is applauding and Al Morale is holding the trophy. The show will go straight to the player sign-in screen. Otherwise, you can use the button at the bottom of the credits screen to start a NEW GAME. It will also go straight to the player sign-in screen without repeating the show introduction. Use Keyboard Sounds to add humor for your audience. You can generate the sound of audience "Ooos" and "Ahhs" to go with your comments (such as when you hand out a prize), cue an audience laugh track when something funny occurs to a player, or trigger specific comments from Al Morale when a question is on screen. Subtracting players in the Player Sign In screen is easy. Since 4 is the maximum number of players, the MORE button changes to a LESS button as soon as you reach 4. So, if you want a two player game and you accidentally created name slots for 3 players, just keep clicking MORE until the LESS button appears, then use it to remove the empty player slots. (If you leave empty slots on screen, the game will treat those as nameless players, so it's best to remove them.) Use the A, B, C and D keys to type in player responses to questions. Unless you're fast with a mouse (or slow with a keyboard), this is the quickest way to enter an answer when the timer is running. Tweak That Title when in the Quiz Player by selecting SHOW TITLE AND SET-UP under PREFERENCES. Any changes you make to the show title will be immediately shown when you click OK, so this is the ideal way to write a great title screen. Pause the Game: Game Show Presenter is designed to run as the foreground application on your computer and to go into pause mode the moment it becomes a background application. That means you can pause the game (including the timer during a quiz question) by kicking Game Show Presenter into the background. To resume the game show, just click the game show window to make it the active window.
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