Customize your own robot character and square-off for some robot wars in this Guru Bronze winning example. Your robot will spin the wheel to select a trivia category and take on some tough trivia questions to earn points. And for a fun extra, you can tweet your progress along the way.
Way to go, Nancy! I got so into it that I was expecting to see Level 2. :(
Hope you build out more levels as this model is terrific for a number of applications.
This was really good. Congrats! Would love to see some of the background work on how you did some of this. Something like this would be useful for me to incorporate in my courses.
I'll do a write up on how I did this at some point but I was so sleep deprived when working on it that I'll have to go back and figure out what I did :)
Yes, this is really great and I would love to know how you spin stuff. Are you just "wireframing" an image to increment a few degrees each time? Using a gif? Inquiring minds would like to know...
Hi Joseph - I used the spin animation in Storyline to spin the wheel. But because storyline limits the spin to 2 turns I had to resort to a bit of trickery to make it spin more than twice. When the user clicks the spinner on the base layer, I have a trigger that says to jump to a layer called Wheel - this layer has a copy of the spinner and the wheel. The wheel is set to spin clockwise twice for a duration of 2 seconds and the timeline is set to 2 seconds. There are also 4 other layers (one for each topic) which also have wheels with the spin animation on them. On the Wheel layer I have some JavaScript to randomize which of the 4 topic layers will display when the Wheel timeline ends.
Oh wow. It would be easier for me to just use a spinning GIF but the GIF support is less than meaningful and it can't be started or stopped with precision. You have to use other images or something else to make that happen.
I think my description makes is sound a lot more complicated than it actually is. You don't need the JavaScript part, I just added it in because I wanted the wheel selection to appear random. I'll provide the source file at some point. I just want to clean it up a bit and put in some labels so people can follow it a bit better.
Hi, if you go back and read my previous post you will see that I have made the storyline project file available if you are interested in seeing how it all works.
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