Creating a Powerpoint game (or template)

http://www.iup.edu/page.aspx?id=61511

This is a link to Indiana University of Pennsylvania Games to be used in the classroom. It has Pyramid and a running clock.

It built images of 1-30 and placed them ontop of each other .. used the animation to disappear one after the other using the timing effect delay of 2 minutes.  This version doesn't inlcude the starting and stopping of the clock based on user interaction. But I'm thinking that you could use a trigger to stop the clock when the user clicks on something and use a trigger to start it.  This would mean placing this trigger over and over again after each of the time built images.  May be a better way to do it - but not sure.  Also, the PPT on the link is very very basic from a visual perspective but I thought maybe the "workings" of it might be helpful to you.  Goodluck and let me know if you get the starting and stopping worked out.

Welcome to the Forum Andy, Seems like Dianne has already come with a great find! Well done Dianne!

Hi Dianne,

Thanks for this link. I looked it over and parts of it are helpful. I pretty much now got my ppt prsentation the way I want it but for the timer. I find it hard to believe that no one out there wanted to do the same thing I want to do. I mean, I'm surfing the web and I see a whole bunch of game templates mimicking popular TV game shows, so why isn't there a template out there mimicking exactly Pyramid and I mean specifically the timer/stopwatch. I see templates (like the one you sent me) mimicking everything but. Again, I can't believe someone didn't figure out how to use the present features of PPT to make a count down/up timer that can stop - or a better way  to put it, to "Pause" the clock to se how much time was taken to answer all six in the category, then press clear or reset to either put the clock back to zero and go up or i.e. 60 and go down.

The suggestion you made sounds like an idea but I tried to do that and get screwed up somewhere and it doesn't work for me. 

I have another thought, please think this through maybe it can be done and it's easier. Let's use a countdown timer for example. let's say it's a 30 second timer. and let's say the person/team took 20 seconds to answer everything. What if at the 10 second mark the mouse is clicked right over the timer or a particular key is pressed, which makes the numbers from 9 on down still count down but it's hiding behind a coloured shape, i.e. the timer itself and it's colour. So you still have the timer working but since you can't see what's happening in the background IT LOOKS LIKE THE TIME STOPPED. Can that work and is it an easier thing to do? Do you know of anyone whose thought of that?

BTW, I found a website: online-stopwatch.com where you can download and embed a timer and/or stopwatch into ppt and they claim that if you follow the instructions it can act independently of the internet (doesn't need the internet to work). I tried it. It's a flash file.swf and and you copy it into PPT's Developer Tab. Please check out this website and try it yourself. Problem is, and it's huge and I'm probably not going to use it (and that's why I want a PPT itself solution) is beacuse every single time you get out of PPPT you have to reinitialize it, that's a royal pain.

Thanks,

Andy Gelberger

Hi again,

I have a new Powerpoint 2010 question.  I created an action button and hyperlinked it to a slide in the same presentation. Also on that same action button I have included an audio clip (I checked "Play sound").  But I would like that the sound clip plays after a delay of 15 seconds. can you help?