IndigoSkies, a computer science student from Harvey Mudd College has just made a simple but very interesting Python-based game which she named as JKT Sanjou! Can You Name All the JKT48 Girls?. The game intended to help people to remember the girls name by randomly presenting the girls photos in which you will have to guess who is the member(s) in question.
An excerpt taken from the game she hosted at her university server stated :
Hi guys!
If you’re reading this, you’re helping me play-test this game a little bit. So to start off, here’s a few warnings.
•It’s not pretty. I don’t have graphic design skills. For now I’m focusing on the functionality, not the design, but if you have any suggestions for how you think it should look, let me know?
•The photo URL text field is purposely read-only; it’s my current hack for passing the photo you’re guessing for to the next round. The way I was doing it before was invisible to the user, but edited the global database so it broke when more than one person tried to play it at once, so this was the next thing I thought of. I’m sure there’s a better way to do it; again, let me know if you have ideas. (I tried to gray the text box out so it was obviously not editable, but then I couldn’t retrieve the URL from the form later =/)
•There are only about 100 images in the database right now, so if you get the same image multiple times, it’s because there aren’t too many to choose from. I think it’s enough to play-test the game?
•Something I do want to do is link the photo at the top along with your results, or maybe have a separate results page which then links back to another photo to guess. Thoughts?
•I am planning on implementing modes where you can choose to guess only pictures of 1st gen girls or pictures of 2nd gen girls. Or maybe I’d do it by teams instead. Not sure yet.
Basically, let me know how this goes for you, what you think, if there’s anything specific or general I should change…it’s my first time making a game like this, so I’m prepared to listen to any suggestions Have fun
She created this game as a final project for a programming class in the fall of 2013, with the intent to continue working on the game even after the semester finished.
You can contact her with suggestions or any bugs-reporting via :
Twitter: @IndigoSkies
Tumblr: jktsanjou
Email: indigo AT cs.hmc.edu
So, what are you waiting for? Try to play-test the game and give her any suggestions you have in mind to help her polish her game!
JKT Sanjou!
developed with Python? wow, It’s good choice. I’ll try it.
when will the game stop? my fingers are tired lol
A good job you did there! I find it challenging as well as entertaining !
– I think it’s a good idea to make it multiple members : It increase difficulty, yet at the sometime helpful for those who are unfamiliar with the girls to actually recognize the girls through association.
– I see that you have did your homework inputting some alternative answers too. I deliberately input some alternative answer like ‘Nyash’ and ‘Wawa’ and it worked well. I’m not sure if you input both Achan and A-chan since some people tend to use either one or the other.
– I also deliberately input some wrong answers, to see the response. Putting a link to see the last picture where it is wrong will be helpful to correct it later is very helpful.
– Perhaps you should limit the number of question … honestly I stopped it half-way since it is too much for me.
– Btw I like the picture where the microphone hid some part of member’s face that makes it harder to guess. And I guessed it wrong!
More like an exam than a game, i think.
exam for JKT48-logy…….
yup….. my fingers are tired too…..
but good innovation hehehe
Should acccept answers with typos! for example I answered Vivioya Apriani instead of Viviyona Apriyani, how the heck am i supposed to know the minute spelling details of the names?? or is that part of the game that u have to answer very accurately?
You can answer with just their nicknames. In your case, answering with “Yona” will work.
Bazzeenngg… i don’t know it..
A nice & simple game. And I really like the pictures so much that I even saved some of them lol.
Could be more interesting with a more interactivity. But this is already very comprehensive. And yeah it feels like an exam instead ^^;
Looking forward for the revamped version!
damn I got started and the picture showing vinny and yuvi but when i tried to answer with nickname the game doesnt recognize vinny name #failinthefirsttest http://www.jkt48stuff.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif