Are You A Trivia Buff?

Creating A Live Multimedia Trivia Contest

A major black entertainment company was looking for an interactive trivia contest that could be staged with customers in it's restaurant. Working with producer Duane Ross, JKT Media was given 8 weeks to create an interactive trivia program including scoring and personalization that was based upon over 1,000 client-suppllied questions and answers in four areas of black culture.

What moved this project out of an ordinary multimedia parameters was a requirement that the contestants not use a mouse to participate. instead, the client stipulated that the program be run from a control room while an emcee and the contestants, standing on a stage in the restaurant, interacted with the game on a large projection screen.

Using Tookbook and it's Openscript scripting language, we were able to develop a self-looping database of questions and answers, and substitute keystrokes by an operator for the traditional mouse clicks. The project was developed and delivered on time and on budget.

In fact, the contest was so successful that the client requested a second version based on Gospel trivia. This version was developed using the first program's engine and delivered in only 3 weeks.