Select Game Options
Selecting the Gameplay options and type.
The Strong Game includes two types of play:
Collaborative Play Groups of players work together as a team to answer questions. This includes everyone on a single team trying to beat a minimum score, or teams of people working together to beat other teams and achieve the highest score.
Competitive Play Everyone is on their own, and the highest point score wins.
Game functionality changes depending on the type of game you select
Collaborative Gameplay
In Collaborative Play, the following options are automatically activated:
| Option | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Use Percentage Scores | ON | See the next section, "How Game Scoring Works" |
| Show Player Scores | OFF | Individual player scores will not be displayed |
| Show Team Scores | ON | Group scores will be displayed |
| Enable Player Audio Chat | ON | Group members can talk to one another via built-in voice chat over their phone/computer’s web browser. Allows groups playing online over web meeting software to stay in the main chat room, while having private conversations with group members. |
| Show Votes on Player App | ON | Group members will see answer selections their fellow group members are selecting in real time |
| Show Votes on Host | ON | ? |
| Show Vote Counting | ON | ? |
You can manually override the default selections to change the gameplay to your unique requirements.
Competitive Gameplay
In Competitive Play, the following options are automatically activated:
| Option | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Use Percentage Scores | OFF | |
| Show Player Scores | ON | Individual player scores will be displayed |
| Show Team Scores | OFF | Group scores will not be displayed |
| Enable Player Audio Chat | OFF | No group chat, as everyone is playing against one another |
| Show Votes on Player App | OFF | Answer selections are private, only players will see the answers they have selected |
| Show Votes on Host | OFF | ? |
| Show Vote Counting | OFF | ? |
You can manually override the default selections to change the gameplay to your unique requirements.
How Game Scoring Works
Regular Scoring
To use regular scoring, turn percentage scoring off. In a regular scoring game, each correct answer is worth 10 points.
Percentage Scoring
The Percentage scoring system motivates players to work together as the higher the ratio of people agree on the correct answer, the more points they can get.
For the sake of explanation, we will use and example of 10 people playing together.
When 8 out of 10 participants get the right answer, they will get 80 points. We recommend in this type of Strong Game that individual points are turned off. So in the above case, the 2 other members of the team are not penalized for guessing wrong. Lastly, if 2 of the 10 members are correct, and the other 8 are wrong, the team will get 20 points.
So for calculating the team score over a five question game would look like the following:
- Question Type: Trivia and 1 out of 10 were correct: 10 Points
- Question Type: Social and 9 out of 10 were correct: 90 Points
- Question Type: Survey No points
- Question Type: Media and 3 out of 10 were correct: 30 Points
- Question Type: Trivia and 10 out of 10 were correct: 100 Points
The total points for the group would be 230 points.