Buzzer! Coming soon FREE to iPhone/iTouch
Buzzer! is a 2 player split screen Music Quiz for iPhone/iTouch versions (2.0+)
Buzzer! randomly selects sync’d music from your iPhone/iTouch library for all of the 6 different Music Rounds. These consist of:
- Round 1: Guess the Artist?
Random track played with four possible Artists - Round 2: Guess the Association?
Random track played with four answers (mixture of Artist, Title and Album) - Round 3: Guess the Artwork?
An Album image is slowly revealed with four possible Albums - Round 4: Guess the Title?
Random track played but with sound chopped up and four possible Titles - Round 5: From which Album?
Random track Title is played with four possible Albums - Round 6: Random Question
Random question played from the above 5 Rounds
Game Play
Once the game has started you will see a timer displayed in the top left hand corner. This will slowly disappear during a question as time runs out and will refill after the question ends, providing a brief pause.
Once a question starts the buttons are made active. Player 1 must use the left side of the screen while the right is for Player 2. After a selection has been made the appropriate buttons are deactivated until next question.
Scoring
Players are scored as follows:
- If both players are correct the first player will receive more points
- From Round 2 onwards players will receive minus points for wrong answers
- Players will receive higher points for answering questions quickly
Settings
Before a game begins you can modify the game settings these include:
- Number of Rounds in the game ( 1 to 6 )
- Number of Questions per Round ( 1 to 15 )
- Time to answer each question: In seconds ( 5 to 15 )
- Pause time between each question: In seconds ( 2 to 8 )
Here are a few screenshots:
Richard.
Credit goes to Greg Elliott (http://gregtelliott.com/) for pointing me in the right direction with the MusicLibrary and Celestrial frameworks, and also for testing Buzzer!
Greg is the author of SynchStep. Taken from his website:
synchstep is a free application that plays songs from your music library that match your pace. Every step you take lands in-time with a drum hit, a bass pluck, a piano chord.
Check it out also.
Tags: App, Buzzer, iPhone, iTouch, Music, Quiz
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September 5, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Awesome game! Loving it!
One thing I would change though, is the ability to choose the rounds you wish to play and if possible, choose the number of questions per round, so for example you might only play ‘guess the artist’ and ‘guess the title’ but want to do 5 questions of guess the artist and 10 of guess the title. Also after the game, the music keeps playing, would be good for it to fade out and stop.
Just my thoughts, but definitely happy just having this game right now
September 5, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Very cool game, lots of fun. One thing I noticed though, is that in round 3, “guess the title”, sometimes one of the choices is shown as “Artist – Title” and the rest just shows song titles. Is it supposed to be that way?
September 6, 2008 at 12:14 am
Thanks Nayan, i’ll save your message in case I get some time to make an update.
It was actually meant to keep playing at the end – well, until you press the play button. I just thought the end screen needed a little livening up.
John, if you’re talking about Guess the Association then this is meant to give you a mixture of artists, titles and albums. The idea is that you select the associated item relevant to the track you’re listening too.
If you’re talking about another round then you should not see this problem. I would suggest you examine the ID tags of your MP3 files. The reason I say that is that there is no way the app could create a concatenation of two types to be displayed.
Glad you’re enjoying the game.
Richard
September 6, 2008 at 9:40 am
this is a terrific game. You managed to capture some if the iPhone’s cooler features in a fun and well known concept. Out of curiosity, why did you not publish it in the app store? Many would be tempted to charge $1.99 for this game.
September 6, 2008 at 9:50 am
Thank Uri
The MusicLibrary and Celestrial frameworks used in Buzzer! are off limits to developers from inside the SDK. Therefore it would never get approved by Apple for the App Store.
It was really just created as a way to play with these frameworks and experiment a little.
Glad you’re enjoying it – The tricky part is playing with someone else’s Library of tracks.
September 6, 2008 at 7:19 pm
What a great idea! One important suggestion – either exclude audiobooks/spoken word or let the user choose which genres to include. I listen to many audiobooks and this can’t really play it as is. Hopefully that’s something you can fix.
September 7, 2008 at 3:44 am
Another thing… Any way I can donate for this wonderful app?
After playing awhile, I’ve got some other ideas that would make the app better… Maybe a way to choose the genre’s that are included, after playing with a few friends, they’re maybe not into as much music as me, so a way to filter out a few genres, could make the game more enjoyable.
September 7, 2008 at 9:15 am
Hey mr buzzer ;o),
love your game, great work! Nayan is right, we need a way to send you a donation please.
I have one more suggestion for the game. As i saw now the app also chose tracks from the podcast and audiobook etc sections. It would be nice if it only take stuff from the music section or step 2 would be the possibility to be able to configure in the settings, what sections are used in game.
You are really talented and i hope to see some more games you created soon!
greez ringman
September 7, 2008 at 11:55 am
Nayan & ringman,
Thank you both for your comments.
I’m going to try and find some spare time to work on a few Buzzer! updates over the next couple of weeks.
These include customising the type of game people want to play. (ie: You could choose 5 questions from round 1, 10 questions from round 2, 0 questions from round 3 etc). I’m also going to look in the possibility of genres / removal of podcasts etc.
I’ll post updates here when I have some so stay tuned.
Thanks,
Richard.
PS> A donations link has also been added. That is very kind thank you.
September 8, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I’ve made a small donation for now and will donate more upon updates. Keep up the great work.
One thing I would like to see is that the answer options are possibly grouped by genre or something like that. The reason why is that I have a wide range of music in my collection, so sometimes, theres a clear answer out of the 4 options, but if it was chosen by genre then it could make the game harder. Maybe this could be tied into some sort of difficulty option but i think i’ve already given you enough feedback so I’ll stop now.
Thanks again for your great app!
February 15, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I like the game a lot. It is similar to Music Quiz from the old 1.14 days. I have one very important suggestion/request… You should make a single player version (like in Music Quiz) where you are just trying to beat the clock and get points by faster response. There could be a way to save your scores so you had something to try to beat in later games. one knows my iTunes library as well as me, so the 2 player version is not a fair battle, (assuming I had someone to play it with.