Author Topic: Freebie! Family Feud Presentation (Read 12255 times)

Particleman · « **on:** August 27, 2003, 01:05:42 AM »

Hi guys,

For any of you who might be interested in playing Family Feud for parties or social gatherings but can't find a reasonable way to display a functional game board, you'll want to download and try this. This isn't a game you actually play along with. It allows a person to control the answer board on a TV screen or projector.

I used this at a Christmas party last year and everyone loved it. It's still not finished but please give it a try and let me know what you think. It's based off of the 1976-1985 era of Family Feud.

Here's the link:

http://www.katymae.com/ff/feud.htm

Todd

clemon79 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2003, 01:54:41 AM »

[quote name=\'Particleman\' date=\'Aug 26 2003, 10:05 PM\'] Here's the link:

http://www.katymae.com/ff/feud.htm
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WOW. WAY DAMN SLICK.

The extra little tap when a slide turns over is a particulaly nice touch. I could see this being a completely awesome tool if it gets completely tricked out.

SimpsonGeek · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2003, 10:06:02 AM »

WOW!!! You're awsome, I'm denfenitly going to use this at parties. Great Job!

BrandonFG · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2003, 10:45:52 AM »

[quote name=\'Particleman\' date=\'Aug 27 2003, 12:05 AM\'] Hi guys,

For any of you who might be interested in playing Family Feud for parties or social gatherings but can't find a reasonable way to display a functional game board, you'll want to download and try this. This isn't a game you actually play along with. It allows a person to control the answer board on a TV screen or projector.

I used this at a Christmas party last year and everyone loved it. It's still not finished but please give it a try and let me know what you think. It's based off of the 1976-1985 era of Family Feud.

Here's the link:

http://www.katymae.com/ff/feud.htm

Todd [/quote]
That...was absolutely beautiful. Words cannot display how impressed I was with that presentation, esp. since I've been toying with the idea of doing a campus Feud, put on by the journalism majors. One of the best FlashGames I've ever seen! :-)

joelvanderveen · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2003, 11:59:58 AM »

Absolutely awesome!

geno57 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2003, 12:12:19 PM »

That IS beautimous. Thanks!

NickintheATL · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2003, 12:46:23 PM »

Is it just me, or did I have a lot of trouble downloading this file off the server it's on. Just pointing out a possible techinical issue, nothing against the program itself!

Nicholas Mooneyhan
http://crash.to/mooneyhan/

clemon79 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2003, 04:08:40 PM »

[quote name=\'NicholasM79\' date=\'Aug 27 2003, 09:46 AM\'] Is it just me, or did I have a lot of trouble downloading this file off the server it's on. Just pointing out a possible techinical issue, nothing against the program itself!
[/quote]
I don't think it's a technical issue so much as their server was just being particularly pissy this morning...I had a little more trouble today here at work than I did last night at home. It'll prolly clear itself up.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #8 on:** August 27, 2003, 07:15:08 PM »

awesome!

Peter Sarrett · « **Reply #9 on:** August 27, 2003, 07:20:38 PM »

I wrote a similar app in DHTML for an event this past April, but yours is nicer. I couldn't get DHTML to manipulate text to make it look like it was flipping, so I resorted to using JPGs instead-- which meant I had to create a JPG for each answer. Ugh!

Very nicely done. Time for me to learn Flash.

- Peter

daveromanjr · « **Reply #10 on:** August 27, 2003, 07:25:53 PM »

I love this software! Great job on the animations and sounds! I have just started playing with Flash a little bit and never knew it was that difficult... I really admire the work you've done on this!

Brandon Brooks · « **Reply #11 on:** August 27, 2003, 09:40:19 PM »

[quote name=\'Particleman\' date=\'Aug 27 2003, 12:05 AM\'] Hi guys,

For any of you who might be interested in playing Family Feud for parties or social gatherings but can't find a reasonable way to display a functional game board, you'll want to download and try this. This isn't a game you actually play along with. It allows a person to control the answer board on a TV screen or projector.

I used this at a Christmas party last year and everyone loved it. It's still not finished but please give it a try and let me know what you think. It's based off of the 1976-1985 era of Family Feud.

Here's the link:

http://www.katymae.com/ff/feud.htm

Todd [/quote]
I ain't gonna lie, this is pretty nice. I haven't seen anything like this before. I guess I wanna give you some suggestions if you plan to pursue this further:

Making it easier to input data by creating a stand-alone program is no biggie, and I wouldn't waste my time on it. The instructions seem clear enough, and people should do test runs of all the questions they use before they play, anyway.

Also, file size is really no issue. If you download the program one time, one should be able to wait however long they need too. The text files are small enough to be carried on a disk, if needed. To that end, go ahead and throw as much as you need onto it.

In terms of doing a Fast Money deal, if you programmed that whole board, I can't see it too much harder to do it. It may take some time like the regular game board. Here's what you can do: you'll have the first person play fast money. There will be someone at a computer typing the answers into the .txt files in abbreviated forms less than 12 characters long with their corresponding values while the projector is turned off or covered up. They'll save the files, and use a quick one-character-at-a-time reveal mechanism to reveal the answers. Then the projector will be turned back off for the next person, the file will be modified and the second set will be revealed. I don't know how feasible that is, but it seems a little easier than live type to screen flash. But you'll also need an inputter that's well coordinated with the host.

But again, you've done a bang-up job. Atta-boy.

Brandon Brooks

TV Favorites · « **Reply #12 on:** August 27, 2003, 09:56:47 PM »

Very nice job! One thing I would like to see is a segment at the beginning with the family intro music and main theme with the Fast Money Feud logo running like at the beginning of the show. Maybe the opening theme (where the families are introduced) can be played and looped until the operator pushes a button. At that time, the host intro music would play and the board would turn to show the animated fast money feud logo.

parliboy · « **Reply #13 on:** August 27, 2003, 10:51:00 PM »

Mirroring for a couple of days for bandwidth's sake. Broadbanders, grab from here, it'll handle your phat pipes just fine.

http://parliboy.com/presentation.zip

Particleman · « **Reply #14 on:** August 28, 2003, 12:13:34 AM »

Wow, I never thought people would actually care about this. Makes me want to finish it! I also appreciate all the suggestions. I take them very seriously.

TV Favorites, before too much longer I'm going to fix the intro. It'll start out with a blank screen. The next scene will be the oval-shaped Family Feud logo with the flashing lights flickering around it. The violin intro music will be playing. The next scene will rotate the board to the electronic side with the theme song playing. It'll animate and stay there until the first question comes up.

Anyone who wants to learn Flash or already knows Flash and wants to have my FLA file, you're welcome to it. This is my gift to the game show community.

Parliboy, thanks for mirroring this file. I use Doteasy as my web server. How long will it stay there?

Author Topic: Freebie! Family Feud Presentation (Read 12255 times)

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