What's New in Gameshow Pro 4?

What's New in Gameshow Pro 4?

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What makes Gameshow Pro 4 so different from its predecessor, Gameshow Pro 3? There are over 50 new features and improvements for Game 1 alone! Don't let all the new features scare you, though. Gameshow Pro 4 retains Gameshow Pro 3's easy-to-use mold, and it was designed with users in mind to be even more intuitive and easy to navigate.

What are some NEW features?

1. Graphic Themes - This feature will allow instructors to change the entire graphic theme of the game board. From the background graphics to the buttons, it changes the entire look of the game. Select either Classic (Gameshow Pro 3 game board), Hip, Corporate or Fun.

2. Question Library - This feature will allow users to store and/or consolidate gameshow questions in a local library. When building gameshows, they can retrieve previously saved questions by clicking and dragging them directly into a new gameshow or an existing one.

3. Customizable Team Colors - This feature lets you select different color settings for the team boxes.

4. Customizable Sounds - This feature will allow the customization of all buzzer ring-in sounds (e.g., "Yellow Team" instead of "Team 1").

5. Additional Info Screens - This feature will allow the presentation of Info Screens:

Before a question (Intro)

During a question, as a (Hint)

After the question, as a follow-up Info screen

In Game 2, Classroom Feud, each of the 10 possible answers can have its own Info screen.

6. Early Ring-In Penalty - This feature in Game 1 automatically locks-out a team that rings in early for a designated amount of time, treats an early ring-in as an incorrect answer, deducts a selected amount of points from an early ringer, or immediately demands an answer (without completing the question). This customizable feature discourages teams from ringing in for the sake of ringing in first. *Note: This feature works with wired or wireless buzzer systems.

7. Question Review - This feature will allow the gameshow host to review the game show's questions, answers, and infos after a game is played.

8. Product Translation Area - This feature will make it possible for users who speak single-byte languages (Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, etc.) to translate the product's system messages into their native language. (It is already possible to display Q&A in these languages.)

9. Increased Team Capacity - The following games can now have additional teams for each game:

Game 1 - up to 10 Teams
Game 4 - up to 5 Teams
Game 5 - up to 5 Teams
Game 6 - up to 10 Teams

Games 2 & 3 (where only 2 teams are required) will have the same 2 team capacity.

10. Additional Q/A Layouts - This feature will allow instructors to include graphics in the answer area.

11. Improved Answer Key Printing - This feature will produce a printed answer key that includes pictures included in the questions, answers, Intros, Hints and Info screens in your gameshow.

12. Events Setup - These features allow you to control the flow or sequence of events in your game:

Pre-Game Setup

Match 1, 2, 3...etc. Setup

Post-Game Setup

13. Increased Answer Capacity - This feature will allow instructors to have up to 6 answers to the question they are designing. In Game 2, Classroom Feud, questions can have up to 10 right answers to accommodate Top 10 lists.

14. Q&A Database Search Engine - Gameshow Pro 4's sophisticated search feature will allow you to search for words within your questions only, answers only, questions OR answers, info screens and descriptions. You may also limit your search to a particular category, number of answers, or media. (You can access this from the Filter feature in the Question Bank)

15. Recording Results - Games may now be saved in progress ANYWHERE in a game, not just when you are at the game board screen. This feature will create a log of gameshow results that will document questions displayed, which teams answered, and how they answered, allowing trainers to document more fully how a group is performing.

16. More scoring/play options-

Categories-
Penalty for Answering Incorrectly: Instructors can deduct the question value for a wrong answer, deduct no points, or select the number of points to deduct.

Starting Team: Instructors can decide if the teams are selected randomly by the program or the instructor specifies who goes first.

Next Team in Control: Instructors can select which team gains control. Whether it's Random, Correcly Answering, Highest, Lowest or the Teams Take Turns picking questions.

Question Play Mode: Instructor decides if the teams are going to play a Ring-In-Type game or whether or not they'll take turns answering questions.

Classroom Feud-
First Answer Team: Determines which team is given the chance to answer first. (First to Ring-In, Sequential/Teams Take Turns, Specify)

Question Play Mode: Sets the procedure to determine how a question is played as well as when & how points are awarded. The options are Standard (Winner Take All), Same Team (Immediately Award Points), and Alternate Teams (Immediately Award Points).

Team in Control: The setting for Team In Control (First to Answer or Highest Answering) determines how a team can win the right to decide either to keep control or to give control to the opposing team.

Number of Strikes: The setting for Number of Strikes (1-5) detemines how many wrong answers a team can receive before it has to forfeit control of the question to the opposing team.

Tic Tac Toe-
Penalty for Answering Incorrectly: Instructors can select no penalty for an incorrect answer, have the incorrect team lose their square to the opposing team, or allow for the other team to ring-in to answer/pass the question onto the other team.

Points Per Square: Instructors can assign the number of points that they wish to the squares.

Points For Tic Tac Toe: Instructors can award any number of points for a winning Tic Tac Toe team.

Points For Cats Game: In the event of a "tie" or "Cat's game", instructors can choose to award any number of points to the team with the most squares on the board, or to award no points at all.

Final Answer-
Starting Team: Instructors can decide if the teams are selected randomly by the program or the instructor specifies who goes first.

Question Play Mode: Instructor decides if the teams are going to run the board until they answera question wrong or the teams take turns.

Wheel of Knowedge-
Points to Buy a Vowel: Instructors can decide how many points a team needs to buy a vowel.

Starting Team: Instructors can decide if the teams are selected randomly by the program or the instructor specifies who goes first.

Question Play Mode: Instructor decides if the teams are going to take 1 question per turn, 1 question per spin, play a Ring-In-Type game or play without questions.

Question Bowl-
Starting Team: Instructors can decide if the teams are selected randomly by the program or the instructor specifies who goes first.

Bonus Questions Open for Ring-In: Selects whether another team can ring-in to answer the question if the Bonus was answered incorrectly.

17. Select Starting Team - Instructors can either specify which team goes first by clicking on the team's name box, or they can opt to let the computer decide for them at random.

19. Next Team in Control - Instructors have a variety of options to select which team goes after a question is answered. They can select the team themselves, set the computer to randomly select a team, have the team the answered the question go next, automatically select the team with the highest score, automatically select the team with the lowest score, or have the teams take turns.

GAME 2: Teams can earn the right to keep control or to give control to the opposing team by either being the first team to ring-in or by giving the highest answer on the board.

20. Answer Team - Teams can either ring-in to answer a question, or the option can be set so that teams take turns answering questions.

21. Bonus Question Options - This feature enables other teams to ring-in and answer a bonus question if the team that selected the bonus question answers incorrectly.

22. Quick-Launch Icons – This feature will give you an overview screen of each gamefile that was created using the software. Each gamefile has its own icon that acts as a quick-launch button.

23. Question Sorting - Sort questions in a library by question text, number of answers, difficulty level, topics, source, and date modified in either ascending or descending order.

24. Question Build – This feature lets you build a question & answer in a typewriter-style sequence ranging from slow to fast.

25. Copy Rules Settings – Allows you to copy Rules settings from one match to another.

26. More Bonus Locations – You can have an unlimited number of bonus locations per match.

27. Drag-n-Drop feature - Questions can be easily dragged & dropped into game show categories.

28. Question Topic Selector - You can associate a topic or subject for each question and search/sort the Question Library using this field.

29. Question Difficulty Setting - You can also set a level of difficulty (0 - 5) for each particular question and sort the Question Library using this field.

30. Question Description – Each question may have a text description, and you can search the Question Library using this field.

31. Font Size Selector - This feature allows you to select any number sized font for Questions, Answers, Intro, Hints and Infos.

32. Text Justification - Question text can be left justified or centered with a click of a button.

33. Text Font Settings – Bold, Italicize and Underline text with a click of a button.

34. Maximize Text Button – Maximize Question and Answer text size with a click of a button.

35. Sound Library – You can select sounds from a pre-existing Gameshow Pro 4 Library of sounds or import your own.

36. Graphics Library - You can also select from a pre-existing Gameshow Pro 4 Library of graphics or import your own.

37. Hyperlink Feature - Question, Answer, Info, Intro & Hint text can be hyperlinked. (NO YET IMPLEMENTED)

38. Text Layout Combo – A new layout option lets you overlay text on a graphic.

39. Preview Window – You can preview the Questions, Intros, Hints, Infos and Answers to a question without having to play the game all the way through.

40. Date Modified – This feature automatically stores a date and time a particular question was modified. Questions in the Question Library may be sorted using this field.

41. Auto Graphic Layout selection – This feature automatically selects a graphic-type layout after importing a graphic/movie without having to select the layout first.

42. Additional Media Types –

You can import a Macromedia ".swf" file as a graphic.

You can also import an mp3 sound file.

43. On-Screen Context Sensitive Help – This feature displays a window giving you help on features included in Gameshow Pro 4 by rolling over the features with the mouse cursor. (It's the window in the lower right hand corner of every screen.)

44. Sample Question – This feature allows the teams to run through a sample question to familiarize themselves with the rules, timers, buzzers…etc. before the game begins.

45. Pre-Game Event Setup –

Display Game Instructions - This feature allows you to create a list of instructions displayed prior to seeing the game board.

Display Game Logo - This feature gives you the option to display the game show logo at the beginning of a game.

Introduce Teams - This feature gives you the option of introducing all of a match's teams prior to game play.

46. Match-Level Event Setup – All of the following are Match-level events. Except for those noted, you may choose to include these events in a match (or not).

· Introduce Match - Displays a Match Introduction screen

· Display Match Instructions - Displays editable instructions for a match

· Introduce Teams - Introduces teams one at a time prior to a match

· Play Sample Question - As noted in Item 50 (above).

· Display Game Board (Mandatory Event)

· Determine Starting Team (Mandatory Event)

· Select Question (Mandatory Event)

· Display Question Value - Displays a question's value prior to the question

· Display Pre-Question Info - If it exists, displays Pre-Question Info screen

· Play the Question (Mandatory Event)

· Highlight 1st-Place Team - Plays a musical fanfare & highlights the current leader after a question

· Display Leader Post-Match - Plays a musical fanfare & highlights the current leader after a match

· Review Questions - Gives you the option to review game show questions after a match

47. Final Match Event Setup – The following are Final Match events. Except for those noted, you may choose to include these events in your Final Match (or not).

· Introduce Match - Displays a Final Match Introduction screen

· Display Match Instructions - Displays editable instructions for a Final Match

· Introduce Teams - Introduces teams one at a time prior to a Final Match

· Display Final Question Category - Displays the Final Question Category, prior to displaying the question itself

· Play Final Question (Mandatory Event)

· Display Pre-Question Intro - If it exists, displays Pre-Question Info screen

· Play The Question (Mandatory Event)

· Review Questions - Gives you the option to review game show questions after a match

48. Post-Game Event Setup –

· Show Winner - Plays a musical fanfare & highlights the winner of the game

· Display Game Logo - Displays the game logo at the end of a game

49. Right-Click Options – This feature allows you to right-click on a filename within the library and select to delete, play or rename the game.

50. Include Title - This feature gives you the ability to include a title when showing an Intro, Hint or Info.

Note: All features may not be available in this version of Gameshow Pro 4 Game 1, but they will be available in the final Gameshow Pro 4 product release.