Today I made the first actual test about how the quiz works...and it was a success! Although there is still a lot to do, the basic functions of the game seemed to work nicely. I have implemented two game modes so far: the Main mode which has currently around 220 DP songs and questions about them, and The Morse Era mode which asks questions only about the songs recorded during 1996-2005. I also played it a while, the first song happened to be '69 and the question was simply "which song is playing". Well, managed to get some 80 points from it, so it was pretty easy. But there really are some more difficult questions in the quiz as well, like "where was '69 recorded?" - that already requires some serious DP-knowledge! Moreover, some of the sound samples are really hard to recognize, because they may not be from the chorus section, or there may not be any singing in them, for instance. That makes things more interesting!
The scoring, by the way, is based on time. So the faster you'll give the correct answer, the more points you will get. Perfect answer (lightspeed fast correct answer) is worth of 100 points. 90 points is a top score, 80 is a good one, 60 an average and so on. The minimum possible score for a single correct answer is 10 points - that's what you'll get for a correct answer unregardless of how long you must think before answering. If you answer incorrectly, your score will be substracted by 50 points. These rules make it possible to have a quiz, where one can't just open up Google and find out the answers - you'll need to know them if you want to have a top score. But of course using Google or any other site is allowed: that way you can learn more about the music of Deep Purple and perhaps achieve better scores in the future. Because there will be 3200 different questions, it's not easy to memorize all the information! Also guessing is not wise, because there is a 75 % chance of hitting the wrong answer (as there are 4 answer possibilities), which gives -50 points, and only 25 % chance of hitting the correct answer by accident. So the expected score value is 75 % * -50 + 25 % * 100 = -12.5 points, which means it's not worth to guess. But sometimes you have to. =)
The next thing I'm going to work on is removing some little glitches from the quiz engine and add more features into it. Then some changes to the graphical lay-out and I think it's realistic to have the first 'real' test version out during or after the weekend. Let's wait and see. =)
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