Creativity

Creativity is a LAN multiplayer game. It is best played with 3 to 7 people. Everybody needs his own computer and - to get out the most fun - all people should play in the same room. This is not an online game!

The game idea is to invent creative responses to difficult challenges. After all players have submitted their responses, those answers are shuffled together with the real response. Now the players are to pick the correct answer. You get points for guessing right and especially, if other players believe that your answer was the correct one.

Important: In order to work the game needs a game file which is nothing more than a file with a list of challenge/response pairs formatted in XML:

<game>
 <round>
  <challenge>What is an Euphonium?</challenge>
  <response>An Euphonium is a brass instrument with a canonical bore.</response>
 </round>
 <round>
  <challenge>On the 20th of May in 1506,</challenge>
  <response>the famous navigator Christopher Columbus died.</response>
 </round>
</game>

You can download this sample file here. If you are an experienced Web programmer, you will surely figure out some ways to generate nice challenges and responses automatically from online newstickers :)

The game can be downloaded below:

creativity-0.5-win32.zip (8,5 MB)

Download for Windows. Use this, if you have a Windows machine and just want to play. You only need this zip file. Download and unzip in any directory you want. Then execute the creativity.exe and have fun!

creativity-0.5-src.tar.bz2 (40,7 KB)

Source code. Use this, if you want to play the game on other platforms. Python and PyQt4 are required. In Linux you can probably install them with the package manager of your distribution. In MacOS you should consider this website. I managed to run the application after installing all the files from the 2nd section except the numpy and PyQWT. Download and unpack the archive. Execute creativity.py to play the game.

Creativity should be working most of the time, but is not supposed to be bug free. The issues we know about are listed below:

• If you try to start the game without selecting a valid game file, the application crashes :)