Creating a Game Results Board with Captivate 5

Challenge

This question (from the forum)

"I'm trying to create a board for a game.  In the game there is a red team and a yellow team.  Once a team has control of the "board" the subsequent points earned should go to that team"
 

sounded like a challenge. And I like challenges, certainly when advanced actions in Captivate have to be used. Until today I had never imagined using Captivate for such a goal. And I had some difficulties to understand the rules of this game. The user gave me his graphics and was very patient explaining those rules. It took less time to create the advanced actions :-) . For those interested in the creation of the actions, I did publish an article explaining in detail those actions, here is the link:

 Creating a Game Results Board


In the article you can download the cptx-file and the cheat sheet for the moderator.

Game rules

The resulting SWF is displayed later on. But let's start explaining the rules (as I understood them):
  • The board is used by the moderator of the game, not by the teams
  • Two teams are playing: the 'yellow' and the 'red' team
  • A toss decides which team is starting: the moderator enters the result by clicking on the red or yellow rectangle
  • Each round corresponds with one slide and has one question
  • There are different correct answers, but not always the same number (first round has 5 correct answers, second 6, last 3); a round is finished when all correct answers have been given; total score for each round is 100 points, but the score for each correct answer is different.One example for first question: since 'dog' is the most popular pet it gets a much higher score than a 'rabbit' that is less popular.
  • The moderator has a cheat sheet, with the place of the correct answers; if the team gives a correct answer he clicks the corresponding rectangle: the answer is displayed with the corresponding score and this score is added to the result of the team.
  • If the answer is incorrect, the moderator clicks the last rectangle (bottom right); a big black cross shows up with the number of attempts left. When the team has given 3 incorrect answers, the other team can continue and gets the score already obtained by the first team.

Cheat sheet

Included a pdf with the cheat sheet for the moderator. There are 3 rounds with these questions:
  1. What are common household pets?
  2. Which day of the week is the most relaxing?
  3. What is a common side dish for lunch?
I got the explanation that the scores for the answers are based on statistics.


Game Results Board - result
Try it out please:


Some ideas

I' m thinking about creating a template for this scoreboard. It would allow customizing, for the backgrounds as well as for the questions, when using placeholders. Important is to have the advanced actions available in the template and an easy way to adapt them. It should be possible too to replace the textual answers by graphics.

What is your idea?