Trivia/Polling Web Game Engine

Oxygen Media, Convergence Lab 2000

Project Description: This system allows television producers to easily create games for the Web that compliment their on-air programming.� The system is comprised of several modules.� The first is a web interface for writers to create questions for the Web audience.� The second module is a web interface for producers to arrange questions into a timeline for a show and to schedule the question playback on the web.� There is also a centralized SQL database for storing all the questions and shows.� The third module, or web interface, is for the producer to play back the show on the web and keep score.� There is also a bot in the playback engine that will automatically choose the best question within a range set by the producer, so the system can run shows continuously.� Finally, the last module contains an interface for the end-user that displays the questions, the scores, and the chat of other contestants and relays the users' answers to the playback engine.�

I worked with Ethan Adelman at Oxygen media.

Technical Notes: I wrote all the interfaces in Macromedia Director/Lingo outputting to Shockwave, the middleware in Perl and the database is in MS-SQL.