Final Quiz and 500 word rational

Quiz by ~xhtuffx on deviantART

When thinking about my quiz I wasn't sure at first what to base it on that other people would know things about and would enjoy using. I researched into other quiz games online, and popular ones such as trivial pursuit and who wants to be a millionaire? to think about genres, styles and questions. I decided that a general knowledge quiz would be best to do because then there are a wide range of questions you could use and it wouldn't just be based on one thing that someone might not know any answers too. I then thought I could have three rounds that could appeal to a range of users and that would also make it easier on deciding what questions to use. I went with a nature, music and sport round with a range of questions in them which some were easy and some where the answer was not so obvious. For example there is a question "Who is this tennis player" with a picture beside it which is a face everyone should know, and the available answers also make it easier to narrow down which one is right. And there is another question "what does a dendrologist study?" and I think this a more difficult question because it may not be something everyone would know. I wanted to use my own drawings to illustrate my quiz and I think it makes it more personal to me, although it did mean it took me a long time to make all the different drawings. I think this also makes it look visually pleasing and easy to look at as there are no flashing images or colours that clash. The text I used is also easy to read and isn't too fancy or strange so it fits with my quiz style. I began with a start page that leads you to instructions or the first round, and then the quiz starts with animations in between each round, and you get a final score at the end. I struggled a lot with the actionscript, finding it difficult to make each frame go to the next correct frame, and getting the score to work. It was also very tedious trying to get all the text to fly into the screen and make motion tweens. I also found it confusing and difficult to import videos and music and they often didn't work and so this has made my quiz really simple. I think it is very hard to use actionscript especially when you aren't entirely sure how it works or aren't confident in using it. I think my quiz is easy to use and the questions make you think and give you confidence that you can answer the more harder ones. I think to reward the user more I would put a score table at the end so they can improve their score and beat other users. I think my quiz could have been a lot better if I understood flash more and so I could be more imaginative with what I could put in my quiz.