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I loved playing Mindmaze, the trivia game inside Encarta '95, and was upset that I couldn't find a similar game anywhere online. Distraught and a little nostalg
by gleitz 15y ago
I loved playing Mindmaze, the trivia game inside Encarta '95, and was upset that I couldn't find a similar game anywhere online. Distraught and a little nostalgic, I recreated it as WikiMaze in HTML5. I've tried to keep the game true to its classic form with a slightly updated take on the graphics and gameplay.
The questions are generated on the fly from Wikipedia. For any folks that are looking for an easy place to get trivia questions, check out the API (e.g. http://www.wikimaze.me/api/v1/get-questions/?limit=5 http://www.wikimaze.me/api/v1/get-questions/?limit=5)
Give it a spin and let me know what you think!
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoThis is awesome, I remember playing this as a youngster, in the library on the computers there.
- gleitz 15y agoIt is also available as an app in the iTunes Store http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikimaze-free/id475157639?ls=1&mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikimaze-free/id475157639?ls=... <3 HTML5 apps!
- gojomo 15y agoCan you talk more about how you create the questions? I'm guessing the answers are always article titles, and you look for articles that have a neat leading summary which is easy to perform anaphor-substitution on. But, how do you pick the candidate wrong answers, and have you developed any other tricks for handling problematic/ambiguous summaries?
- gleitz 15y agoI'll be writing a series of blog posts about the architecture of the game as well as more info about the API at http://blog.wikimaze.me/ http://blog.wikimaze.me/ At a high level you are mostly right. The incorrect answers are generated using http://www.freebase.com/ http://www.freebase.com/ (now a Google product) Lots of pages have to be thrown out, but after analyzing thousands of articles it was relatively straightforward to know when you had a good page versus a bad one.