Macronair / TheMillionaireGame

A custom game controller software based on the tv game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire!
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Pull questions from open trivia db #63

Open hazzuk opened 9 months ago

hazzuk commented 9 months ago

Finding questions and adding them manually is the hardest and slowest part of using this application. There is a online questions database which is API accessible, I suggest adding an integration to directly pull questions from this db into the app.

https://opentdb.com/

One button to quickly pull five easy, five medium and five hard multiple choice, any category questions would mean a user would be able to immediately play the game.

And perhaps a separate button and UI with filters for 'select a category', 'select a difficulty' which then you pull one question at a time. The response displays the new question and the user can either add the new question or request a new one.

Additionally, having functionality where the host (who is likely the one adding the questions) hasn't seen the answers, mean they can actually play with the ask the host lifeline.