Goal of the Project

While working as the Media Technologist at Heartland Community College I created an original Jeopardy style interactive game design for a Communications 101 course instructor for use in her in-person class. This project was replacing a previous jeopardy game she had been using based on a PowerPoint slide presentation. She was not happy with her PowerPoint version she had been using and requested an easier, more user friendly version she could use in her classroom.

Project Specs

Category

  • Game Design
  • Instructional Design
  • Interactive Design

Software Used

  • Adobe Flash CS4 icon
  • Notepad++ code editor

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Audience

  • Heartland Community College Instructors
  • Heartland Community College Communication Students

Solution to the Problem

The Adobe Flash version of this Jeopardy style game, developed in 2010, worked quite well for the instructor. She was very pleased with the design and the ease of use. She also liked that this design uses an XML file for all of the game board categories, point totals, questions and answers. This allowed her to easily change the question or answer text as needed. This game board was used for many semesters at Heartland Community College for this Communications 101 course. This modular design also allowed other instructors to easily modify the XML file using a plain text editor for use in other types of courses offered at the college. This design serves as an fun and interactive way students can review course materials.

The original Adobe Flash-based Jeopardy game I developed as a "one-off" project required me to write over 1500 lines of ActionScript code in programming for this game to work. The XML document containing the game board categories, point totals, questions and answers is 224 lines of XML code. This was created in a plain text edit allowing the instructor to easily update any of the game board data using simple tools she would have access to.

The example of the Jeopardy Game Board on my portfolio above is running in Flash using a Flash Emulator called Ruffle. More information about the Ruffle Flash Emulator is available at Ruffle.rs.

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