Quiz Style Gameshow

[Chris Devlin]

Hi there! I’m working on creating a quiz-style gameshow segment for one of our shows, and I’m hoping you can help me out. I’m trying to make it as simple as possible for the QLab operator, so I’ve been using a stream deck to help volunteers navigate the platform.

Here’s an example of what I’m trying to achieve:

Question 1 - Bla Bla Bla

Is that correct? - The user will then press a button on the stream deck either “yes” or “no.” An animation will play to show whether the answer is correct, and then the question will move onto the next one.

Now, I’m having a bit of a dilemma. I want to make sure there are only two animations that play (correct or incorrect), so I don’t have to fill up the QLab with hundreds of the same two cues or have a hotkey that somehow leads to the next question. I was thinking maybe a Target cue would be a better option for this?

I know there are many different ways to do this, and I’m open to any suggestions you might have. Let me know what you think!

[Paul]

Lots of way you might do this.. 

I would set up a cue list called 'Questions' numbered 'qu' with the questions (presumable as Text or possibly Video cues). 

Then I would have another cue list called answers with two group cues 'correct' and 'wrong' containing the animation, the sound [and possibly a way of incrementing the score] and a Network cue which sends a go to the Questions cue list

/cue/qu/go

So you get your buttons to trigger either the 'correct' or 'wrong' cue via OSC, hotkey or MIDI

/cue/correct/go

/cue/wrong/go

and these would run the next question cue in the 'questions' cue list:

You might also want to read the questions from a file to make maintenance and updating easier, then use a script to import them or run them dynamically as Text cues. ( I done something similar, for a demo, for a millionaire-style quiz.)

But for a one off show, best option is to keep it simple!

[Chris Devlin]

Thanks for the reply, at the moment my demo file is just using Text files. I did think about running it as an apple script, however once the show has been built I'll be handing it over and leaving so need to make it as simplistic as possible. There will be potentially be hundreds of questions for multiple rounds which Is why I want to get the workflow correct before committing. At the moment my stack looks fairly similar to your suggestion. I've used OSC for stream deck to trigger a hotkey before but I'm just wondering if theres another way without having to re-use hundreds of the same cues.