Trivia!

A True-False trivia game with 7 categories and a GUI in Java!

Trivia Question Genres

1. Space
2. Minecraft
3. United States
4. World
5. Country Capitals
6. City Locations
7. Java

Directions

1. Choose Genre of Question Bank
2. Click True Button or False Button
3. Click Next Button after answer is displayed
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until done

Controls

• Use your mouse and left click to interact with the program!

• The tab key + space key combination works

  • Tab to move cursor
  • Space to select button

Features

• Utilizes Swing Library to create a GUI

  • Colored JPanel + JFrame
  • Interactive JButtons
  • Colored Buttons
  • JLabels
  • JProgressBar
  • Special Fonts
  • Debug Mode (Open terminal)
  • JSlider** WIP
  • More!

• Selectable Genre

  • 7 options
  • 8 questions to pull from per genre

• Gives correct custom answers when incorrect

  • Helps the user learn while using the program

• Random Question chosen pool every time

  • over 50 questions in entire pool

• Methods employed

  • Code is reusable + repeatable
  • Swing can perform

• A lot more :) Dig around the source code to see!

Download / Compatability

• Due to being coded in Java it works on most mainstream devices!
  • This is as Java is platform independent and runs on a JVM
• Run the Trivia.class file listed in the releases.

Info

This project used to be a CLI program that checked for user error but did not implement methods and used for loops instead. In this update (Jan 2025) when setting out to create a GUI for this I encountered a plethora of bugs when trying to modify the old code and essentially ended up starting from scratch. The only piece of old logic that I kept were the question switch cases, which themselves had to be modified and moved. This is my first project in which I converted an old CLI program to a GUI app it was far more difficult than I envisioned. This tested my patience the most out of any project I have built so far as I kept squashing and making bugs for what seemed to be hours, and having to go through trial and error many times as I teach myself how the Swing library works.

Next Steps

I hope to keep expanding on this project! Here are my ideas on what to add...

1. Implement a Colored UI + Custom Fonts
2. Add progress Bar
3. Add slider for the user to customize number of questions asked
4. Increase question pool size
5. Create an ALL trivia option where questions are pulled from the entire pool

Version 2.1

Changelog

• v1.0

  • Created Base Game as a CLI program!

• v1.1

  • 3 more genres of trivia:
    • World
    • Country Capitals
    • City Locations!

• v1.2

  • Added Java trivia
  • Correct answers when ‘false’ questions are answered incorrectly for clarification and knowledge for the user
    • Java and Space topics only

• v2.0

  • Revamped everything! (LARGE UPDATE)
  • Code is in methods
  • GUI based
  • Created Detailed Readme to explain project

• v2.1

  • Added correct answers for all topics
  • Fixed incorrect phrasing in some questions
  • Added slider functionality
    • User can choose number of questions