Randomly chosen questions

[PlanB]

I am attempting to make a trivia based game that sends the player random questions, I've worked out a basic code outline for it.

However I need to know if its possible to do a form of "IF" statement along with variables in MMF.

Also, if not, I'd appreciate any suggestions to getting questions to be selected at random.

[DavidN]

I'm not sure what you mean by "IF" statement because that's what events are... if Player collides with Doughnut, decrease Health("Player") by 1, if List Line Text$("List") = "Go home" then do something else. If you want to have an IF inside an expression you can use the Immediate IF (IIF) object, which takes in two variables and a condition (>, <, =) and outputs one of two possibilities depending on whether it's true or not.

What I would do for a trivia game like this is to store the questions and answers in an external file (plain INI would do), so that they could be read by picking a random number and then looking up the items that correspond to it. Perhaps if you go over how you're thinking of approaching it someone can give you pointers as to how to do it in MMF.

Good luck and welcome to the forums

[LordRichard2]

ya he meant the event editor. The event editor graphically shows if statments, rather than typing If "blaBla" = "bla" then do "bla".

To choose a random question, use ba random number generator object, and the generate a number between your number of questions that can be chosen, and then store the chosen number to a variable, and then display which question (with the event editor) that is chosen. You might have to make a seperate event for each check to make it simple, im not too sure how to do advanced loops or checks yet, i go for direct approaches and check each type of event seperately for debugging purposes.

[Mokhtar]

You may want to take a look at the Random Multipool object which was built mostly for this kind of things.