Shrey Tripathi
Final year grad student, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore
shrey.tripathi [AT] iiitb.ac.in
Game Show
A game show using sockets
A game show implemented in python using socket programming
Project Overview:
There is a host who conducts a game show and participants/players who provide answers. There are three participants. The host has a long list of questions and correct answers with him. He randomly chooses one of the questions (making sure it is not a repeat of previous questions) and sends to all three players. The players receive the question, think about the answer for a while and press the buzzer. There is a timer for 10 seconds for buzzer to be pressed. Otherwise, the host moves on to the next question. The first one to press the buzzer is given a chance to provide the answer within 10 seconds. If the answer is correct, he is given 1 point, otherwise -0.5. Nobody gets chance to answer this question again. The host then proceeds with the next question. The game stops when any player gets 5 points and that player is declared the winner.
Description:
I have divided the project into two phases, the client phase and the server phase. First, the server waits for a connection from the four clients (of which the players are three) and then proceeds with the questions only if all the participants have joined. Each of them has been assigned as Player1, Player 2 and Player 3 with respect to the time of their participation. Then the server broadcasts the questions from the stored set of questions in the list given by initiating the thread_function() function. It then waits for buzzer to be pressed from any one of the user and then waits for the user to give some input. If the user gives a correct answer his score is incremented accordingly and reduced if it is a wrong answer. It keeps on doing the process until a player scores 5 points. Then the program is ended.
You can find a live demo video of the project here!