Music Quiz: The layout for this quiz was entirely based on improving my previous quiz through feedback. As I were also more familiar with the software, I added in a lot more animated text, using this as the homepage. As mentioned previously, asking 20 questions in one go for an online quiz seemed to be a bit too much, I decided to create several different quizzes into one, therefore still meeting the minimum of 10 questions, yet not one after the other. Realising early on that I had background issues with the previous quiz, I made sure I used a very light minimal background for this one, whilst concentrating on not making it too plain and boring. I used a relevant image again created on Photoshop of musical notes and graphics, which worked quite well with the bold bright questions and answer options. The homepage layout consisted of different artists names, including a video and instructions option, sliding in from different directions, with the option to click on each for a different quiz. I used different fonts of different sizes and colours, making it look fun and interesting to want to play. Each artist had their own separate homepage with their name sliding in and 'play' button. Each only consists of 4 questions, as I didn't want too many this time. This is a nice small number to answer, seeing as I have the option of 8 different answers, making a total of 32 questions. The good thing about this layout is it will not seem tedious, as you don't have to answer these questions simultaneously, as after each separate quiz you can go 'back' or quit the game. I'm very proud of this layout, as I know I took on board all criticism in order to make this one successful. In terms of user interaction, I have had positive feedback. This wasn't designed specifically at a certain audience, but I guess it is interesting to anyone with an interest in music. My feedback I received is from other students of similar age. The design and layout are perceived much better, and overall enjoy the quiz a lot more. I added a music track that runs throughout the quiz to keep the user engaged. The score is recorded at the end of each individual quiz so the user knows what their score out of 4 is. The Actionscript used was the same as the driving quiz, yet I had to change the premise of the scoring system so that I could use the same Actionscript for each quiz.
My influences for this quiz were my own personal interest in music and an old TV show called 'My kind of Music'. This show consisted of playing a clip of music and guessing who the artist and song name were to gain a point. I experimented with having a question based on a song where there were two buttons on the frame, 'play' and 'pause' within the question. I felt as it is a music quiz it works much better with music running throughout. In order to think of different artists, I gathered and selected a few well known names from the top 40 in the charts. This was as the users testing and playing the quiz were all of similar age range, they may have a strong idea who each were. Therefore I made some questions quite tricky, so it wasn't a waste of time making it easy, and also it can therefore be informative as the users can learn about their chosen or favourite artist.
I added in a video of a different artist, not stated on the homepage, basing the video on one question of who is the singer. I've had a few display problems with this but I think it may finally be working!
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