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iQuiz Game Now Available
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I've tried a few games on the iPod but the interface doesn't lend itself to great game play. I find it awkward.
I see iPod games as a gimmick more than anything. Hopefully this will change with the next significant revision of the iPod - multi-touch screen, for example.
Actually, Tetris, I find works very very well on the iPod. My gf was fiddling with my video and she happened to come across the game. She was still new to the clickwheel yet fell right into the gameplay and controls. It's designed very well, and actually works better with one thumb for me than all those times I've played Tetris on a gameboy. They are sort of gimmicks, but are still pleasant gimmicks that are nice time killing applications.
I agree. It may take a while to get used to but Vortex and Zuma work very well. As testament, I've made it to level 13-1 in Zuma with 3 lives left. (If you think level 9 or 10 is the end, you are wrong and yes, its harder
) Every once in a while I shoot a ball at the wrong place and blame the scroll wheel...I don't imagine Pac-Man is terribly easy on an iPod but I can tell you those two games work well and are fun, Maccus says Tetris is too, and iQuiz looks like it will be also.
It's (presumably) wrongly priced at £0.79 on the UK iTunes store. I bought it, and the transaction went through fine - Apple can't touch me either: under UK law if you sell something at a price, and that price is wrong, it's you're luck out
I've also bought it for 79 pence and I don't even have a 5th gen iPod!
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Just played MQ2-music quiz 2 and scored $20, 000. More fun to play than the original music quiz.
I agree. It may take a while to get used to but Vortex and Zuma work very well. As testament, I've made it to level 13-1 in Zuma with 3 lives left. (If you think level 9 or 10 is the end, you are wrong and yes, its harder
I don't imagine Pac-Man is terribly easy on an iPod but I can tell you those two games work well and are fun, Maccus says Tetris is too, and iQuiz looks like it will be also.
Pacman is dreadful to use, even after you get the hang of the controls. The issue with this game is that you have to turn your thumb around accordingly on the touch wheel to select the path for pacman to go into. If you turn and run from a ghost you might turn your finger too far and turn around again and head straight for the ghost and die. It's pretty frustrating. Unfortunately the zune would be the better device for pacman, as the directional pad is optimal for this type of game.
I've just released the first trivia pack for iQuiz called Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics.
Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics is a short quiz about Windows XP for Apple's iQuiz game for iPods.
How to install-unzip and copy the quiz pack and folder into: the iPod Games's iQuiz (in the iTunes folder on your PC or Mac). Then connect your iPod and sync it with iTunes 7.1 or later.
Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036763
Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics is a short quiz about Windows XP for Apple's iQuiz game for iPods.
How to install-unzip and copy the quiz pack and folder into: the iPod Games's iQuiz (in the iTunes folder on your PC or Mac). Then connect your iPod and sync it with iTunes 7.1 or later.
Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036763
Welcome back to the education world, Apple!
I can see teachers writing up all sorts of requests to get iPODS in the classroom with this addition. I'm imagining the future iPOD with wi-fi and using the main classroom computer as the server. BETTER PATENT THAT IMMEDIATELY.
Teacher makes up their own tests, downloads state tests. ACT and SAT sell questions for iQuiz to help with student preparation.
Pretty exciting stuff.
Kids forget their books every day, but I assure you, they don't forget their iPODS.
I can see teachers writing up all sorts of requests to get iPODS in the classroom with this addition. I'm imagining the future iPOD with wi-fi and using the main classroom computer as the server. BETTER PATENT THAT IMMEDIATELY.
Teacher makes up their own tests, downloads state tests. ACT and SAT sell questions for iQuiz to help with student preparation.
Pretty exciting stuff.
Kids forget their books every day, but I assure you, they don't forget their iPODS.
I could see something like this happening too. It's a great idea since you can make up your own questions and I'm sure people will hear about this game in the next couple of weeks.
Once again, great idea!
Ditto. Hoping to get one soon, as my nano packed in earlier this week...I'll look forward to using it! Should be quite a good way to revise...
How come the link shows me a $4.99 game but going to it manually costs $0.99??
Oh haha oops.. I see that's been covered.. never mind.
Oh haha oops.. I see that's been covered.. never mind.
I agree that there are huge possibilities for teachers with iQuiz. It's maybe not hugely exciting and we all probably wanted other things prioritised, but for us teachers it's great to have something for which we can quickly write quizzes and get kids actually learning on their iPods.
I've done a quiz based on the vocabulary in the latest lesson of my Coffee Break Spanish podcast. You can download the zip file here (instructions included).
Incidentally, I got it for £0.79 here in the UK. The iQuizmaker site seems to be down just now though. Obviously there's a lot of traffic today.
I've done a quiz based on the vocabulary in the latest lesson of my Coffee Break Spanish podcast. You can download the zip file here (instructions included).
Incidentally, I got it for £0.79 here in the UK. The iQuizmaker site seems to be down just now though. Obviously there's a lot of traffic today.
Go back and check the built-in tutorial, that's not how you control Pac Man. A lot of people are making this mistake since most other games do work this way.
To move Pac Man (or Ms. Pac Man), you need to only lightly tap the "next", "previous", "Pause/Play" and "Menu" portions of the click wheel to move right, left, down or up.
You don't need to run your thumb all around the entire scroll wheel, and you don't need to actually push these buttons down hard, just a really light tap will change Pac Man's direction. Think of it as a 4-button game.
Once you figure this out, the game is a lot easier to play and a lot more fun too.
Heh, I actually thought he was being sarcastic, but I may have read that wrong!
I doubt that many schools in my country would be prepared to force their students to spend several hundred dollars on a piece of equipment purely for the purpose of running a little $1.79 quiz program. That sort of thing can already be done with existing PCs or even... ahem... paper!