Gaming in Las Vegas - DevLearn 2011

Intro

If you have been visiting this blog recently, you already know that I'm very excited to be presenting  a session at DevLean about Advanced Actions  in Captivate 5/5.5 with Viswanath Shivaswamy (Unleash Adobe Captivate's Full Power). Since this conference is situated in Las Vegas it seems appropriate to have a Game as use case. For attendees, not only those who will be there but also those following the Backchannel with David Kelly as experienced backchannel curator (DevLearn BackChannel) this blog post offers a preview of the game. Have fun...

Game

In this game you'll have to find what is on an image (choice of 2 images in this example) by disclosing parts of the image (4 in this simple case). To disclose such a part you'll have to answer a question correctly, which will then be translated in a score of 5pts. After each correct answer you'll get the opportunity to guess the content of the image. This will also result in a score. The points earned by the guess depend on the number of parts that were made visible: 50pts if only one part disclosed, 35pts for 2 parts, 20pts for 3 parts and 5pts whan all parts are visible.

Sorry, it is a pretty large file (5MB) so you'll have to be patient when loading.

 

Waiting

By means of this game we will try to explain a practical work flow to start with this kind of more complex projects. Of course introduction to the basics of Advanced actions, more concise examples, tips and tricks will be offered as well. And we hope on a lot of interactivity, questions from the attendees (real or distant). 'See' you there at LV!

One of the questions that will certainly raise is: can we report this kind of score to a LMS.  I know, the last blog post about reporting partial scores, or adapted scores as in this game, is not yet published but... wait a little bit more. With the assistance of friends from the Captivate Community we will be able to offer you even two solutions: one using JavaScript, and another one using the amazing new Interactive Master Widget of InfoSemantics.

 

Update

Uploaded a new version of the published game, already learned something and DevLearn didn't even start. Two changes:

Connie Malamed suggested on Twitter that I should change the background of the radiobuttons answers to have more contrast. And she learned from me that 'Danmark' is not mis-spelled, it is just the original name of this country (not Anglicized to Denmark).

Found by accident that something went wrong when one clicked twice the same card, weird that no user has detected that. This has been corrected, using one of my favourite user variables, v_void. Ready for DevLearn now.