Travel Game - Leaderboard questions

Hi, James -- It sounds like you want an item to have a state change across slides. You should be able to do that using a Slide Master. Please see this tutorial, and you might want to try setting your Sidebar up on the Master. Hope that helps! :)

Thanks for the reply Christie. I checked the tutorial, and it just explains about setting up master slides.

I have just tried that, but now I'm unable to change any states of the buttons on the master slide.

If the user clicks button 1 on page 1, I need button 1 to appear as visited on pages 2,3,4 & 5.

If the user clicks button 2 & 3 on page 4, I need button 1, 2 & 3 to all appear as visited, on every page that the sidebar appears on.

After lots of bodging around last night I managed to get this to work, but with only button 1. Attempting to duplicate this across 3 more buttons is going to be messy.

Is there an easier way?

Hi, James -- Would you be able to share your .story file here or a sample so that we can take a closer look at how it's set up? 

Hi Christie,

Hopefully I've uploaded the file in the right way. I've just coded together Gran Canaria and Lanzarote so far. The other two islands aren't linked up so variables/states won't work.

This is the version I managed to get to work (quite messy) without using the master slide you mentioned. 

Hi, James -- Thank you for sharing your file, and I would actually like to pass this to our Support Engineers for further exploration. I would be happy to create a ticket for you (I'll just need your email address, as we have more than 1 person with the name James Bonney in our system), or you can reach them directly using this form. Please let me know which would be most convenient for you.  :)

Good evening Christie, is there a specific reason to pas it over, just out of curiosity? Can I give you a separate email from what I use to log in as I use my work email address for that.

Thanks James 

Hi, James -- Thanks for your response and I will create the ticket for you. You will be hearing from someone shortly. And I thought it wouldn't hurt for our Support folks to take a closer look for you in case they have suggestions beyond what I would be able to provide at this time. As always, we aim to provide the most complete support possible for our valued customers and community members. :)

Thanks Christie, I really appreciate your help 

Hi James,

I took a look at your file. You might be surprised to know your logic is working just fine. The only thing I saw was only two slides didn't have all the variable triggers. 

So, only Lanzarote and Fuerteventura home slides didn't have the triggers to change the state of the Customers, Climate, Cuisine, and Flight Details buttons to visited. The other two home slides, Tenerife and Gran Canaria were both set up and worked fine for me.

I updated the two home slides with those missing triggers and everything else is all your logic!

Let us know if this solves your problem or I'm still misunderstanding. v2 .story file attached.

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your reassurance! As you say, I managed to get 2 of the islands to work, and parked the idea to see if there was an easier way to do it, before I cracked on with the other 2 islands.

The difficult part that is missing on your version is if you clicked on cuisine on the left hand side, I want it to show as visited on every other screen in the story. It works if you click on cuisine, customer details etc, from the main screen, but if you click them from Lanzarote or Fuerteventura, the state isn't replicated across all other slides/scenes. I managed to get it to work properly for Gran Canaria.

I've got to add variables to the icons on individual islands too, so lots to still work on.

I'll keep you informed on any other brain meltdowns.

Hi all,

I've finally finished the first installment of my travel game. 

Throughout the game the user wins 'air miles'. I'd like to feed the user score through to a leaderboard but I'm having a few issues.

The game is hosted in Moodle 1.9 on a secure server, the users have to log in to their account on our LMS to play the game.

Is there anyway to bypass the Moodle security so we can have the results feed through to a public leaderboard that we would create? Or is there a way to create a leaderboard within Moodle 1.9?

Any advice or help would be really appreciated.

Thanks

James

Hi, James -- Thanks for the follow up and that sounds like a really neat idea! I will go ahead and defer to the community/your fellow Moodle users for suggestions on how to make that happen. :)

Hi Christie,

Thanks, here's a link to the first installment if anyone is interested.

I'm looking forward to hearing any suggestions about the leaderboard as I feel it will really push the competitiveness of the users.

https://eb89c48fda108a25119c28ae211706419b101da4.googledrive.com/host/0Bzqd9HfmCkSHSkVhLVpNcWpCZlU/

Thanks

Awesome, James -- very cool so far, and thanks so much for sharing! Best of luck with your project!

Any ideas would be really helpful on the leaderboard issues?

Hi, James -- I just wanted to stop in to mention that you would also be welcome to post your question over in the Building Better Courses forum, as well. Some of those folks might have ideas or suggestions you can try. :)

Thanks Christie, will do :)

Sure thing, James!