Charades GameSalad Game?

FallingBoxStudiosFallingBoxStudios Freelance Graphic DesignerMember Posts: 822
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Hi, I'm thinking of creating a charades GameSalad game, but I would like to know, whats the best/easiest way to create a GameSalad charades game? Thanks :)

- Hunter

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  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    I assume you want a game that provides a random word or phrase and a timer?

    There are trivia templates available that you can re-purpose for this. And there are plenty of timer tutorials and videos.

    The basic idea would be to store your phrases in a table, one per row. Then pick a random row and after retrieving the data from that cell and displaying it, delete the row.

    What else are you trying to do?
  • tatiangtatiang Member, Sous Chef, PRO, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 11,949
    See for example this thread and this post in particular: http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/407305/#Comment_407305.
  • FallingBoxStudiosFallingBoxStudios Freelance Graphic Designer Member Posts: 822
    @tatiang Thanks :D
  • FallingBoxStudiosFallingBoxStudios Freelance Graphic Designer Member Posts: 822
    @tatiang I have one more question ;) on a scale of 1-10, how difficult is this to create? for someone who has never worked with tables before as well as a first app? Thanks :)

    - Hunter
  • KevinCrossKevinCross London, UKMember Posts: 1,894
    I have one more question ;) on a scale of 1-10, how difficult is this to create? for someone who has never worked with tables before as well as a first app? Thanks :)

    - Hunter
    Not difficult at all once you've worked with tables.

    * One table with all of your words in. One blank table.
    * At the beginning of the game copy the words table into the blank table with the "Copy Table" behavior.
    * Randomly select a word from the copy table with random(1, tableRowCount(your copy table name))
    * Store the random number in an attribute so that you can delete the row from the copy table. This will stop the word coming up again in the same game.
    * Repeat the last two steps above until they quit the game or there's no more words left in the copy table. i.e. tableRowCount(your copy table name) = 0


  • TheGabfatherTheGabfather Member Posts: 633
    You will spend more time thinking about which words to include in the game (and quite possibly, designing your interface) than coding the logic for the game.

    It's a great practice app, so go for it! :)
  • FallingBoxStudiosFallingBoxStudios Freelance Graphic Designer Member Posts: 822
    @TheGabfather @KevinCross Thanks guys :) looks like its time for me to start learning tables :)
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