The JJ_Game Class Home Page

(06/11/07)

The jj_game is a macro class for LaTeX. The purpose of the class is to make the construction of Jeopardy-like games easy. Currently, the class supports dvipsone, dvips, pdftex and dvipdfm. The game constructed in a LaTeX source and, depending on your workflow, is converted to PDF. It is possible to construct a game with any reasonable number of categories and any reasonable number of question per category.

JJ_game class is a Jeopardy-like game in which you compete for cyber money by answering questions composed by the game author. The questions can be multiple choice, math fill-in or text fill-in. Since the year 2000, many techniques have been developed, and this version of jj_game has many enhancements an new features:

  1. Added the ability to post math and text fill-in questions
  2. Enhanced control over the color design of the game
  3. The distribution comes with 9 designs (color schemes) jeopardy, florida, iceland, hornet, qatar, norway, germany, bahamas and spain
  4. Five general graphical backgrounds provided, and two additional ones that are used in a custom design.
  5. Language option, currently english and german. Additional languages will be added as translators volunteer
The basic game can be constructed using dvipsone, dvips, pdftex and dvipdfm (untested in this version). Additionally, there is a pro option that requires the use of dvipsone or dvips and Acrobat Pro 7.0 or later with distiller. I have used the jj_game class in some of my classes for extra credit; for this purpose, the following features were developed
  1. A forcredit option that forces the student---assuming the contestant is taking the game for credit---to enter his/her name.
  2. With the pro option, layers are used to hide the questions from the contestant before he/she selects a question from the game board. When the contestant selects a question, the question is made visible. The questions are in layers with a no print attribute, so the contestant cannot print out the game and distribute the questions to other contestants even if the questions are visible.

        Downloads:

        1. Documentation jjg_man.pdf contains all details of the game
        2. jj_game.zip, the full distribution
        3. jjg_test.pdf : Basic demo of Jeopardy with nothing fancy
        4. jjg_ca.pdf : Jeopardy game on College Algebra using one of the designs supplied by the distribution. Also, contestant is asked to enter his/her name and a time stamp and print button are supplied. There is nothing that forces the contestand to enter his/her name.
        5. jjg_custom.pdf : An example of custom graphic design, very swave.
        6. jjg_pro_ca.pdf : Same as jjg_ca.pdf, but with the pro option. The contestant is forced to enter a name before being allowed to look at the questions. The questions are placed in layers and are not revealed until it is selected from the game board. Super swave!

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        Comments and suggestions are always gratefully accepted and seriously considered.

        Hope you like the new version, now, I simply must get back to my retirement!

        one dps

         

        JJ_Game on the Web:

        This games are best downloaded and viewed off line.

        Now, I simply must get back to work

        D. P. Story dpstory@uakron.edu.

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