This is a new trivia door, Good Time Trivia, written in JavaScript

This is a new trivia door, Good Time Trivia, written in JavaScript. This has a question-and-answer format and can give the user multiple tries to answer each question, with clues provided after incorrect answers (the clue will start off with a totally masked answer, and then reveal one letter at a time for each incorrect answer given).

This is currently a single-player game, but multiple users on different nodes can play it simultaneously.

Currently, this trivia game is local to the current BBS only. In the future, I think it would be good to add a feature for networked/inter-BBS games, or perhaps a question server so that systems can dynamically download new questions.

xtrn/gttrivia/qa/converter.js

+require("sbbsdefs.js", "K_NOCRLF");
+
+
+var inputFilename = "/mnt/data/SharedMedia/triviaQuestions/music_and_movies.txt";
+var outputFilename = inputFilename + "-converted.txt";
+
+print("");
+print("Converting " + inputFilename);
+print("Output: " + outputFilename);
+print("");
+
+var inFile = new File(inputFilename);
+var outFile = new File(outputFilename);
+if (inFile.open("r"))
+{
+	if (outFile.open("w"))
+	{
+		var question = "";
+		var answer = "";
+		var questionLimit = 0; // Temporary
+		var numWritten = 0; // Temporary
+		while (!inFile.eof /*&& (questionLimit > 0 && numWritten < questionLimit)*/)
+		{
+			var fileLine = inFile.readln(4096);
+			// I've seen some cases where readln() doesn't return a string
+			if (typeof(fileLine) !== "string")
+				continue;
+			fileLine = fileLine.trim();
+			if (fileLine.length == 0)
+				continue;
+
+			/*
+			//print(fileLine); // Temporary
+			if (fileLine.indexOf("Trivia Question:") == 0)
+			{
+				question = fileLine.substr(16).trim();
+				//print("- Here 1 - question:" + question + ":"); // Temporary
+			}
+			else if (fileLine.indexOf("Answer:") == 0)
+			{
+				answer = fileLine.substr(7).trim();
+				//print("- Here 2 - answer:" + answer + ":"); // Temporary
+			}
+			else // Assume it's part of the question
+			{
+				question += " " + fileLine;
+				//print("- Here 3 - question:" + question + ":"); // Temporary
+			}
+			*/
+			//print(fileLine); // Temporary
+			if (fileLine.indexOf("Answer:") == 0)
+			{
+				answer = fileLine.substr(7).trim();
+				//print("- Here 2 - answer:" + answer + ":"); // Temporary
+			}
+			else
+			{
+				question = fileLine;
+				// Search for and remove the number (and period) at the beginning of the question
+				var dotIdx = question.indexOf(".");
+				if (dotIdx >= 0)
+					question = question.substr(dotIdx+1).trim();
+				//print("- Here 3 - question:" + question + ":"); // Temporary
+			}
+
+			/*
+			// Temporary
+			print("");
+			print("Question length: " + question.length);
+			print("Answer length: " + answer.length);
+			print("");
+			// End Temporary
+			*/
+			
+			if (question.length > 0 && answer.length > 0)
+			{
+				/*
+				// Temporary
+				print("- Writing:");
+				print(question);
+				print(answer);
+				print("");
+				// End Temporary
+				*/
+				outFile.writeln(question);
+				outFile.writeln(answer);
+				outFile.writeln("10");
+				outFile.writeln("");
+				//++numWritten; // Temporary
+
+				question = "";
+				answer = "";
+				//numPoints = -1;
+			}
+
+
+			/*
+			if (question.length == 0)
+				question = fileLine;
+			else if (qnswer.length == 0)
+				qnswer = fileLine;
+			//else if (theNumPoints < 0)
+			//	theNumPoints = +(fileLine);
+			*/
+		}
+		outFile.close();
+		print("Done.");
+		print("");
+	}
+	else
+		print("* Failed to open " + outputFilename + " for writing!");
+	inFile.close();
+}
+else
+	print("* Failed to open " + inputFilename + " for reading!");
+
+
+
+
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// Functions
+
+
+// QA object constructor
+function QA(pQuestion, pAnswer, pNumPoints)
+{
+	this.question = pQuestion;
+	this.answer = pAnswer;
+	this.numPoints = pNumPoints;
+}
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