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One problem I'm experiencing is that the points keep resetting. I have this problem with other bomb games and so do other people where the animations reset if you visit more than 2 slides or something like that and go back to the scoreboard/choices slide. I heard there's no way of fixing that? And it only happens to certain versions of powerpoint? Anyone have a work around? =/
Quote from: Summer on April 11, 2013, 07:45:31 PMOne problem I'm experiencing is that the points keep resetting. I have this problem with other bomb games and so do other people where the animations reset if you visit more than 2 slides or something like that and go back to the scoreboard/choices slide. I heard there's no way of fixing that? And it only happens to certain versions of powerpoint? Anyone have a work around? =/It has worked on both my powerpoint 2007 and 2003. But if you go BACKWARD from the scoreboard then they will reset. Everytime. That is why the scoreboard is at beginning, so you always go back to it. If you accidentally press the back button then you're out of luck. I hope that fixes it?
Powerpoint 2010 has the issues with everything resetting. Try opening 2 instances of the game at the same time, put both into full screen. use 'alt+tab' to change between the 2 full screen presentations, but never move one of them off of the scoreboard page. This should stop it from resetting. You could even erase all the other slides except for the scoreboard in the one presentation, might help everything run smoother.
Summer, Let me know how the students enjoy it if you use it. I still haven't tried it when them. Also, was it easy to fill in the slide templates?
They really loved the rock, paper, scissors! They were.... hmmm... "awed"(?) by having to do RPS with a computer haha. But I think the hands appearing didn't have enough impact. Their reaction after was like, "oh.. we won... great..." Maybe if the hands appeared with a more "pow" animation and with sounds and instead of fading away, make it blink away or something?
In other games I make it so that the game has a "lose all points" possibility instead of a "your team loses all points". One team lost all their points today and they were REALLY angry when it was only them who lost all their points. But it wouldn't make sense in this game for all the teams to lose points due to the One Piece characters fighting against one team.
Other random things:- The students told me the treasure chests are from Minecraft and they got a kick out of that, haha.- For the font, when you have an apostrophe, there's a gap between the apostrophe and the next letter. It confused my students for a moment. If I were to use it with grade 4 and under, I think they some students would be confused (is the letter after the apostrophe a new word? Is it a weird mistake? etc.). Even though I'll only use it for the grade 6's, I'm just saying this in case some other teachers are considering changing the font.
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One thing I noticed (and it was really easy to fix) is that the number 2 question for South Blue hyperlinks to the wrong slide. It goes to slide number 26 (which is south blue #3) and it should go to slide number 25.Otherwise it's brilliant and I'm using this game as midterm reviews for my high school and middle school students. Starting tomorrow - I'll let you know how it goes!
So I should be prepping but I decided to look at your game and I like it.Just a few things about it:I love the choice of sounds.I like the coins splattering out of the chest.The scoreboard is actually quite interesting.I like the style you applied to it but it was a little difficult for me at first to grasp.
Okay, I've only played it with one class but I needed to come back and tell you - THIS GAME IS A MIRACLE WORKER! The fact that it has all of the different kinds of questions had the kids really involved and for the first time I have literally EVERY SINGLE student active and alert and completely focused on English the ENTIRE period. You know how hard that is to do during first period?