SPINGO - A new Bingo game

When the idea for this game came to me, it was one of those moments when you think "Why on earth didn't I think of this before?!"

It's a fairly simple matter of using the 'Until next click' repeat animation process for the spinner, then finding a way of highlighting the matching icons on the playing boards. Once again, I've made use of PPT's own icon menu as the bingo objects - rather than numbers.

It can be played by up to 4 players but also played as a solo game where you can pick your colour then take on the rest.  

Initially, it was a game of 8 playing slides where players had to score with pen & paper then move on to the next game via a 'Next slide' hyperlink. You would exit the game after the 8th playing slide. Then I changed my mind and gave it a scoring slide with a random slide selector so play can continue for as long as you want. It did mean adding reset slides but I only needed 8 of them. Every game will be different anyway due to the way the spinner can be stopped at any point.

I haven't made a video for it or published it to my website yet.

Here's the PPTX file: SPINGO

And here are some screenshots:









Feedback or comments will be very welcome.

Fantastic animation of the wheel!
Beautiful colors & icons.

Didn't get any sound, though. Is that me?

No it's not you.

The only sound at the moment is when you click the numbers on the scoreboards.

I tried to get a sound when you click to stop the wheel. Adding an 'on click' sound means that the wheel carries on spinning until you click again which not good. (Try adding a sound to the 'Appear' animation on second click of the wheel and you'll see what I mean)

I might try to get a sound for the spinner, but it will have to stop & start when the Spin button is clicked, which might be tricky. Otherwise I could have a continuous sound playing throughout the game but that will require a separate sound file to be downloaded as well.

How did you get the continuous war sounds on your Tanks & Towers game without a separate sound file - is it a VBA thing?

War sounds - I have a sound file which runs from the moment the Slide View is on. It's a regular Powerpoint thing, not VBA. Above my slide in Edit View there is an icon representing the file. I placed it on top of a shape named "Battle sounds" just to make things look better. There are also text boxes where manually you can change the level number to try out and Claymore no. to add more Claymores up to 20. Just for fun.

I've now added a wma sound file for the spinner to start and stop on clicking the Spin button. There are also embedded wav sounds when you click on an icon.

The wav sounds will definitely work, but can you download this test slide and check the spinner to see if the sound works for you without needing the separate file?

SPINNER SOUND CHECK

Thanks!

Here's a new version with a few sounds added and some other changes too.

Hope it works!

SPINGO 2

It works fine!

All sounds work great.

Nice one - as usual.

I must have missed the update that allows other sound files to be embedded. It used to be that you had to have the sound file itself in the same folder as the PPS to link the two.

Memo to self: Keep up!!