Trivial Pursuit for the Iphone

I lately found the Trivial Pursuit game is on the Iphone, it features a shake of the device to roll the die, and really great up to date graphics. There are different difficulty level's ranging from really easy to really, really, really hard.  

 

This is what the game-play look's like it has your character and others placed around the screen.

I really like the way you can play with 2 or more people on the same device because some game's make your friends buy the game and you can only play multi-player between different device's,

The game-play is very easy to play and follow and there is no lag or glitches in the game so overall the app is a very successful app and it has been in the top 100 App's for a long time now and it's only 59p so its well worth a purchase.

What would be good for our game later on is if it could be sold as an app and then we could make a bit of money for our hard effort in making the game and at the moment easy money to make is on the app store but the catch is apple takes 30% from the profit's.

Aha Mind Map for our idea's more to come though

This is our group's Mind Map on most of the idea's we have thought of:

I think mind maps tell a lot about a project's idea's and the thought process.

Additional Trivial Pursuit Information

Trivial Pursuit game console games:

Trivial Pursuit is now available on PlayStation 2 & 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo wii, PC and an Interactive DVD so this proves its a really well distributed games.

Above is a screen shot of the Xbox game it is just like playing the board game but here you create your own characters looks and you use the Xbox controller to control your pie's.
This was always going to be the next step for the game because it needed to bring the gamers into the game so they made the console game.

Facts from the game:

Trivial Pursuit was released on ps2 in March 2004 it was released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in March 2009.

Trivial Pursuit a few more facts if you don't know the game

Trivial Pursuit:

An online version of Trivial Pursuit was launched in September 2003. There have been different types of trivial pursuit for example Star Wars, Saturday Night Live, The lord of the rings.

The Game:

You have to collect 6 wedges to complete the game and win. There are 6 categories in the classic version:
Geography = Blue
Entertainment = Pink
History = Yellow
Arts & Literature = Brown
Science & Nature = Green
Sports & Leisure = Orange

The game is played with a die each player gets a turn to roll and it goes round in a circle.

The Playing Board:

The playing Board is in the shape of a wheel and inside the wheel there are 6 wedges (as shown in the picture.)

Around the board there is different sections, and in these sections there are symbols for each question and a roll again section.



 Object of the game:
The object of the game is to get all 6 wedges in your pie and get to the middle of the board where you will be asked one more question and this time the question teller asks you a question from any category if you get it correct you win!!!

Trivial Pursuit a few facts if you don't know the game

Trivial Pursuit:
2-6 Teams or Players
Age Range 12+ (This is what it is aimed at but anybody can play because they do different versions of the game.)

The skills needed to play are: General Knowledge, Knowledge of Popular culture.

Trivial pursuit is a board game, it was made in 1979 in Montreal,Qc.
The creator was Chris Haney he was a photo editor for Montreal's Gazette & Scott Abbott. He was also sports editor for The Canadian Press.

The game was released in 1982 with help from John Haney(Brother) & Ed Werner(Close Friend).
The rights to the game were licensed to Parker brothers (which is now Hasbro) in 1988, After being turned down by the Virgin group.

In 2008 Hasbro brothers brought out the rights in full, for $88 million. As of 2004 nearly 88 million games had been sold in 26 countries and 17 languages.

More ideas for the 6 wedges

Today in the group we discussed more ideas to do with the 6 wedges game I will be posting later a few pictures of the mind maps we created and the process of how things will happen.

A few more ideas we added in today was:

-Location tracker which creates a line which will follow your path when you get the Qr codes.

-The Qr codes will be on posters advertising the product and also for you to get a wedge on your score board.

-There will be a random question answered when you go onto the website each time.

Php Today!!!

I experience coding with Php today for the first time and got a working html/php script what I designed was a kind of twitter like posting event but its only for one computer at the moment, but when I start to learn Php  / mySQL I will be able to make it a global posting client.
But the items are coming together.

Php QR Code

Design

For the 6 wedges we need to make the qr codes i am going to be using a qr code generator.
And these codes are going to link to a website.
I have made an example code here this will link you 2 my blog the 6 wedges.

The Qr code is like a bar code but its only available to read with a qr reader, a lot of companies use them on there products now for specific details. The code is from the black lines on the code.
The big squares are the position of the Qr code where the small square is the alignment. So it make sure it gets the right image.
 
There is more of a read up on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code and it explains a lot on Qr code.

The plan short snappy idea's

Take a picture of the qr code, this will link you 2 a website, on this website will be a question from 1 of the 6 categories.
If you get the question right you will get a piece of pie and a new qr code which will give you a clue to wear the next qr code is.
if you get it wrong you will have to find another code and the one you picked will be invalid.
on the same website there will be a twitter feed for people 2 speak 2 other people playing the game. And also there will be a Facebook group for it.

Twitter Api

I was looking at Twitter Api 2day because I want 2 put twitter on the website we are going to create.
The reason I want 2 put twitter on the website is 2 give clues to people and also for people to start writing about the event and sharing comments which could make our game big.

This is the website for Twitter Api:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/w/page/22554648/FrontPage

Geo location

I have been looking into Geo location and I found a few websites on how to use the Geo-Location and most of the examples i have found use information based on your i.p address and also Wi-fi.
The examples i found do not get your location exactly though so im still looking into the ways it can get your exact location.

This is the first website I found it uses the Google Maps Api, here is a link for the website:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/index.html

Google maps Api is HTML and javascript code and this put's Google maps on your web-page with Geo-location and street view.

The second website i found was dive into html5 and it explains most things to do with Geo-location.
http://diveintohtml5.org/geolocation.html

This website is like a book and it explains Geo-location really well. There is Html 5 code on there which you can put into your web-page.

some old planning for our project

Well for our project we had the initial idea where the Qr code link's to a website showing your location and the question to unlock you wedges.

Then on the web page you answer the question and if correct you get a piece of pie / wedge and it remembers your devices cookie's.

Next when you get the wedge there will be a comment box and you fill out your name and a small comment where you found the qr code, just to let people know you were the first person to get the qr code.

Then when you get all 6 wedge's you win and you have a challenge to try again but with a harder difficulty.

We have changed how the project goes now because we didn't find a reason to use the location tracking and these were only early simple ideas.

This is the Trivial Pursuit game if you didn't know what it is

The 6 wedges

About:
The 6 wedges is an evolved game from trivial pursuit we are using some concepts from the game trivial pursuit. The concepts we are using is the 6 wedges and the Question categories.

The game will use QR codes this is to link the location you are in to a website where the questions will be asked. We may make a log in screen so the page is personalized for you or we might just make a website where everyone can join in and show everybody's location's. This will be good fun because people can work together to find answers and explore the whole university.

Where we are publishing this:
We are publishing this in the university it will be a university game and if it hits big we may make this go throughout the city its in the publics hands.

Technology we will be using: 
We will be using Qr codes for the player to find, we will either use Facebook, Twitter or Google maps to show people's location. The questions will be asked on either twitter or Facebook or maybe on a personal website.