Case Study

This project was built for EmblemCon 2024. Since 2023, one of the moderators suggested we try a Fire Emblem spin to the game show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and I thought that was an excellent idea! Between me, my partner Ducessa, and the mod, we decided that Ducessa and I would be the ones quizzing each other, since we've been putting other mods in the hot seats previous years.

Building out this interface was one of the last things I did before graduating, and I did it all in one night! I took what I knew from a previous project and upgraded it based on the knowledge I knew now.

Rather than the inefficient way of writing out each function individually, I managed to find a way to consolidate all of the functionality I needed into 3 functions; setQuestion, incorrectAnswer, and correctAnswer. I knew that as long as I wrote the events in the right places, and in the right order too, it would work for every question that I had.

And not just what I had, but what Ducessa had too. Since she's not as experienced with code, I had to make sure to make this interface simple for her to edit. Thus, I consolidated all of the questions its own JS file that I sent to her as a blank copy and explained what she needed to fill in. I also told her what lines in the html file she needed to change.