This past week I’ve been working on a lot of little things, fixing bugs and tweaking some text stuff. Thanks to everyone who has sent in bug reports - they’ve been very very helpful. But I’d like to take the opportunity to give a quick demonstration of a new game I’m working on for Quizlet - codenamed “Scramble.” But I’m not set on that name, because I think it’s too close to the already-addictive “Scatter.” So here’s a very very early rough draft:
The point is to unscramble the letters to form words. Obviously, there should be some text to show you the definition of the word you’re forming.
So that’s alright, but after playing it…it’s not that fun. So I’d like to ask YOU - what do you think would make this game more fun? What new aspects would make it more fast-paced?
And also, if you can think of any other game ideas, I’d love to hear them. Post in the comments…
-Andrew
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nyway i think a game where you have to type really fast to get it. like tt.
I think that you could start with just the definition and after a while give a letter and then another letter and then another letter and keep giving letters until either they get the word, or the letters are all given. The goal is to figure out the word before all the letters appear
hangman with definitions would be great
Yeah! Do hangman!
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Anyone wanna play?
does it have an a
How about a crossword puzzle?
I have another suggestion, and this is much more action-y than hangman.
This kind of like the “space invader” kind of game that you used to play on Mavis Beacon (if you’ve used that to learn typing.)
Words are like different weapons and definitions are your enemies that you have to zap with your weapons. You have a dashboard of word/weapons on the bottom of the screen, and hotkeys (number keys) to switch to them. You can only use one weapon at a time.You see definitions slowly approaching from the horizon (simulating 3D) and you have to zap them with your weapons. If your weapon/word doesn’t match up with the definition, it does nothing, but if the current word/weapon matches with the definition, the definition EXPLODES. if the definition gets too close, you loose a life. your high scores would be incremented for each definition that you killed, and would be posted on the set page.
Good idea? yes? no?
@Amelia: I’m going to guess… an ‘E’
Haha! I like the idea of killing vocabulary…
Thanks everyone, these are great (keep ‘em coming)
hehe.:) nice woojoo. Yeah, i was thinking hangman, but some1 sed that. Maybe you could do….i don’t know. but i like hangman and crossword, but hangman wouldn’t work 2 well, with definitions…maybe, i guess. Yeah, i like crossword and hangman, and space invader! :p
lol!
oh yeah— if you could find a way, i love to do word searches! :p
im not sure how it would work, but if you could find a way, great!
Maybe making a game were some letter or words of a definition are missing and you must fill them in. It could be played like Scatter so you’d try to beat your previous time, etc. It makes sense for things with longer definitions.
Ie. The game would give you;
jibni x1 is n__r/close to/ap____mates x2 in _______/quantity x3 (ka/ni)
And you’d have to fill in:
jibni x1 is near/close to/approximates x2 in property/quantity x3 (ka/ni)
As for a suggestion on how to make Scatter more fun, maybe you could have the letters float apart, so you’d have to lasso them into place perhaps. Or glue them together.
Great to hear you are expanding the games!
The idea of “killing“ the words sounds great… if anyone has played games like `typing of the dead` you can see the potential for a really fun game here. Not much time to go into it, but zombies or whatever evil creature come toward the screen with a word floating over their heads, you simply type the word to deal with `em…
If you mistype the word or definition the monster comes faster but you can try again until you succeed.
Maybe a bit too ambitious…?
I think a really challenging game could be like a jawbreaker except you have to maneuver the letters of each word, color-coded, of course, and the word would disspapear once all the letters are touching in any direction, including diagonal. The letters don’t have to be in order. So in a way it would also be scramble.
but I think there could be this game where you have like a house and a character you move with arrow keys. There are different terms and definitions in each room. More than one can be in one room. You press a hot key to pick up a term or definition and you have to run to get the definition as fast as possible. Once you get the corresponding phrases picked up one after another, they disappear from your “load”. Then you have to quickly get all the other ones to disappear. In a way it’s like scatter but easier to play and funner because you get to move the arrow keys instead of clicking around on a boring white background. I think I really like this idea, and also the one by Challenger so I hope you do them!
I like those last 2!
I think what could make scatter and scramble more challenging is to put moving backgrounds and you should be able to pick the difficulty level, like in DDR.
These are really cool. MAke more, and i like the ideas. I once played agame lith that lol. cool huh?
:(I would like to buy an I please:)
do something like a game forum so we can play with goup members that would be cool. another cool thing would probably be like a pac man thing bit pacman has to eat the vocab word that is rite
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I like the idea, but I really think hangman and a clue would be nice, or give some parts of the definitions.
Good stuff guys. The more ideas the better.
I was recently sent this game: http://code.jalenack.com/test.html (I’ve copied the source onto my own server because his seems to be down).
It seems like a great starting point for a game. What do you think? It would have to provide more help - like hinting or partial revealing of the answer. But it’s definitely got that fun feel.
And lastly, I’m surprised no one has noticed that little unassuming menu link that shows up in the demo video
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how’bout aflash game where the term/ definition pops up and you have to click on the definition/term which are moving around. make there be the right answer and four or five wrong ones, or you could fix the glitch in scatter where you drag the right term over the definition and nothing happens and you have to re-drop it, or the one where you cant take a term high up and bring it to the bottom, b/c theres an invisible wall there…
but hey, just do what you gotta do
p.s. tt= turbo typer
What about word searches that give you the definition as a clue and then you have to find the word.?
did you read the feedback i sent in? it must’ve been a week or maybe 2 weeks ago?
i didn’t suggest new games, but asked for the ability to play scatter with all the words in the set. also synonym/antonym features.
so those aren’t really games, but suggestions
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Ahh, you are ambitious, Andrew! It’ll be cool to have new games. Frankly, I don’t play the game you do have right now too much, or really use any of the learning modes except, well, “learn”. It’s not that I don’t like them, or that they’re not well done - they certainly are - but I just don’t learn like that. Everyone approaches this stuff differently, I suppose, and everyone absorbs information through different activities. My point? It’s fantastic that you offer all these alternate way to learn, and it’s even better that you’re adding to them consistently. I’ve talked to plenty of people who use Quizlet, and they all utilize it differently: some, like me, rely on “learn” mode, while others love “familiarize,” are in the process of beating their amazing “scatter” scores, or think collaborating to print flashcards makes studying so much easier.
Anyway, games are fun. There’s no denying that. Bemmu’s game is great, but it tests typing speed, not knowledge. You could do something similar, with definitions scrolling past and having to type the term – but that’s really just an animated version of “learn,” isn’t it? I think a well-done version of word search and crossword puzzles would be fantastic, and quite different from anything else offered right now on Quizlet. Plus, they’re aren’t many well done puzzles online, and certainly none which use the sets you’ve already made on Quizlet. I think those are the games I would make first, and then come up with some even more original ones later.
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crosswords sound good
what up quizlet (and Andrew). My idea for a game is hangman, but a bit different. There will be a word you gotta unscramble, then after that, the hangman begins. You have to enter the right letters, or else the hangman GROWS and you LOSE!! Thank you and have a straight up day.
sweet! lol, got 235 pts on that typing game. THANKS ANDREW
I think you should have a game where you’re in a race car and there are around 10 definitions. As you drive the car you have to type the word that fits the definition as you drive up to them. You have to beat the computer (other car) to the finish line. You could make it really hard. For example a ton of obstacles in your path like brick walls and there could be power-ups too like in Mario Cart. And if you get a high score or something then you could have trophies. There could be a thing in My Dashboard that says My Trophies and shows little pictures of them. It would be really cool. I know I’d play it.
yeah, me too! cool game!
The typing game could be a start–I got a 305 on that :). Anyway I like all the suggestions that everyone put out. It would be a good way to end your craving of computer games, while studying at the same time!
It must be all that programming - I got 875…I love how it gets a lot more tense as it goes. [edit: oops, "more tenser" isn't English]
How about Memory? That flip-the-cards over thingie. Except the cards could have either side of the entry. Hmm, maybe that would be too hard, heh.
FWIW, I think Hangman and Crosswords would both be fun.
This doesn’t work on my cpu!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! Please make it so that the game uses an earlier version of Quicktime
[ed. note: it's just a movie of how the game works. It won't need Quicktime for the real game...]
Haha I got 898 points.
I’m sorry JP.
Great suggestions, though I think the focus should still be learning, typing words quick is fun, but it’s hardly educational.
PS: 1042 points!
crosword puzzle or word search or hangman
would be great!!!!
Ok, here’s an idea. Everything is more fun when there is competition involved. You feel me? So make a beat-the-record game where you have to correctly define/translate a given set of terms while you are being timed. Once you finish, you are shown your time and a high scores list with the fastest players. It’ll sort of be a combination of LEARN and SCATTER.
definition/translation space invader = : ), im not sure how much it would help learning, just recollection speed, but it might be fun.
idk, maybe something basic, where you build a building out of definition blocks. If you get a definition right, you get to add a block, if you get it wrong, a random block is removed. You start with a basic building, and try to build to the sky. if it falls, u lose. hmmmmmm
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That looks like fun. I also like Amiela’s idea. Hangman is awesome, and great if you have to do a spelling test or your teachers are really picky about you spelling words right and stuff.
Well why not have a simple game to start with like checkers or chess and to move you have match the definition with the term
A greeting
1 hi
2 bye
3 beat
4 fun
This is just a really complicated idea. Have a “rpg” and you have to kill the term with the definition. You have a sword(not for school tho) and you go on to the next lvl (next word) Have it animated. The kids would love it
A crossword puzzle generator would be great, having the definition as the clue.
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by the way an rpg? that’s not goin to work with vocab
sorry thomas.
ok lol just a pretty weird idea
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hangman would be cool
What about a sort of tic-tac-toe?
You need to write the answer in a box to make your move, if it’s wrong you can’t go.
how about a game where you are a rocket and you get a definition and then you have to fly to the right term. you use up gas every time you fly up and if you get the answer right you get more gas. so you are not continuously flying there could also be landing pads.
Just wanna brag: Got 1254 in that animal typing game. GG
We would like to see a consentration type game
I think you should put lots og games on here so more people can talk about it and you can have more people come on here
games are fun
get more
how about a crozzword puzzle!!!!!!!!!!
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hangman
a crossword puzzle would be pretty sweet
or a fast paced version of a word search where like one word was in each puzzle and the definithin was on the bottom of the screen would be pretty cool
or hangman because everyone loves hangman
or memory with terms on half the cards and definitions on the other half
Do a word search with the definitions!
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on a different note, ive been thinking.
how about a thing that’s kinda like sudoku? where its like u have three avalibile terms and definitions. it may be pretty complex, but methinks it MIGHT just work
JP
HANGMAN! Hangman would be fun! But you could mix it up by giving Either JUST definitions or JUST the words. Or you could choose both.
I am thinking of spawn for 360 awesome huh?
a game that the defitions or terms are on flipped over cards and you have to match them.
Memory right.
I think you should just have a regular scrabble
i think you should have a memory or concentration game
one word crosswards or you could have a game where you shoot the word and you have the deffinition at the bottom of the screen
I think that you could maybe do some sort of memory game. You know so it gets the brain really thinking. Okay I found this now what is the match? Oh ya!!! Now where was that?? Ya know what I mean???
Well that is just what I think. I glad people will take some time to read/input.
I love Quizlet!!!!
i want to play hangman
this is dumb no one will play hangman with me please the game
Hey owner we haven’t heard a lot from you got anything?
Hey, I’ve got some things I’m playing with but nothing I like quite yet. I’ve also been weighed down by finals and tons of tests at school. Sorry about that!
Can we call you andrew
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I’d love use quizlet on my mobile phone. Like, a program that could let me play vocabulary building games while I’m waiting for the bus. Presumably it could be written as a J2ME application that could download my sets from the quizlet database.
Do you guys have anything like that in the works? Any takers?
Muchly enjoying quizlet as it is nonetheless,
Dave
I think the scramble is a good idea… My latin teacher tests us by scrambling the word so we have to unscramble it and then translate it and i always do badly…. maybe you could help me with this scramble thingo
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