Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

Flash MX 2004 Games
Figure 14.10 Using the input application
Ideas for the implementation
At this stage you have an engine to enter and update quiz questions. The actual implementation
of the quiz is left to the developer. You can access the questions based on category and
difficulty. An interactive quiz should include some scaling of the difficulty and certain hurdles
that the player must get over in order to move on to an extra life. Maybe you can offer some
useful lifelines initially by reducing the number of possible answers, or making suggestions that
are often but not always correct. The quiz could be made funny by including a cartoon character
that responds to correct and incorrect answers in an amusing way. The quiz could use a
high score table that offers prizes on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Maybe the quiz could
be part of an email program, where players could send 10 questions to a friend. However it is
implemented, a quiz is a popular form of entertainment and easily updated. Because we have
included the input date in the database we could easily offer the player the opportunity just
to select from the new questions. This breathes new life into a website and encourages more
visits.
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