Creating a Game Based on a Quiz

Hi Heidi,

While you can't use layers to show a quiz question, have you tried setting this up using a main slide as the "game board" and each shape jumps to a particular quiz question?  You'll want to use the "Disabled" state for your shape (or button) so that the user couldn't click on it again). You'll also want to look into when this trigger to change the shape is set to occur - I'd place it on the "game board" slide just before the "jump to question slide."

Also, there are a number of game boards to get you started in this thread. 

HI Ashley, thanks for your reply. That sounds like what I've already done. The game board is a slide, and each quiz question is on a slide. When the user clicks a shape on the game board, a trigger takes them to the appropriate quiz question slide. When they finish the question, they are taken back to the game board.

The shapes have a trigger to change color after being clicked, but this doesn't seem to be retained when the user is taken off the game board to another slide and then returns to the game board. I'm not sure how to make the changes triggered by previous actions "stick" when you loop back to the game board slide.

Hi Heidi,

Have you checked the revisiting properties for the game board slide? I'd set it to "Resume saved state" to ensure that the state changes for you shapes remain. 

Aha! I was overlooking that feature. Yes, that's exactly what I needed to ensure the clicked shapes change color when the learner returns to the game board.

One final question - is it possible with a state or a trigger to make it impossible to click the shape twice? It doesn't seem like a state will allow me to remove the trigger from the shape - the trigger applies to all states, unless I'm missing something again. I'm OK with not having that functionality - I'm "graying out" the shapes once they've been used, so that visual cue may be enough to discourage learners from trying to answer the same question again. But if it is possible to prevent them, it would be nice to do so - any ideas?

Thank you!

Aha again - I just discovered the "Disabled" state which does exactly what I wanted! So all of my wishes are granted.

Thanks again for your help!

Thanks for the update Heidi and you beat me too it!

Just as a point of reference, here is a set of definitions of the built in states. You'll also want to review this article on how the disabled button states work.  

BTW, this is tomorrow's weekly challenge activity

Cool - thanks for the update David! 

Heidi, if you're looking to participate in the weekly challenge, you'll find the information in David's blog. 

Just posted the challenge. We also posted a simple game template in the downloads that you can pull apart and play with.