Quiz Game is a kiosk game where a single guest touches the screen and answers questions against the clock. It has two types: in the Knowledge quiz, correct answers earn points and the guest enters the scoreboard; in the Outcome quiz there are no correct answers, and the guest is shown a result based on their answers (a character, a product, a recommendation). This article walks through the first setup from start to finish: signing in, creating an event, the ready-made settings, opening the game to guests and getting back from the game to the settings.
- Sign in with your Activation King account and create an event.
- The moment you select the event, 10 ready-made questions and the basic rules arrive. You can also run the game without changing anything.
- Set the questions in Session → Questions, the rules in Session → Game and the look on the Game Screens page.
- Set a 4-digit PIN in the Event Settings → Kiosk tab.
- Press the Run the App button and choose Run as Quiz Game.
- To get back from the game to the settings, tap the lock icon in the corner of the screen and enter the PIN.
Step by step
Step 1 · Sign in
When you open the app, the login screen appears. Sign in with your Activation King account. You can choose the language on this screen or later from the settings. The language you choose is used both on the settings screens and on the guest screens. The app supports 11 languages: Turkish, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Czech.
Choose the language before creating the event: the ready-made questions are written in the language active at the moment you first select the event, and they are not translated if you change the language later, because from then on they count as content you can edit.
After signing in, the Dashboard opens. If you are on a trial, you see the number of remaining days here.
Step 2 · Create an event
All of the game's settings belong to an event, so you need an event first. Open the Events page in the left menu and press Create New Event. Give the event a name (required) and, if you like, a short description. In the How would you like to start? step you can choose to start with an empty event, or take the settings and questions of an event you prepared earlier with Copy Previous Event.
To bring an event you prepared on another device onto this one, use Import Old Event From Cloud on the same page. If your account has no events at all, the Create Your First Event window that opens on the Dashboard takes you to the same place.
Once the event is created, the Your Event Is Ready page opens. The Run the App button here does the same job as the one in the left menu; Skip the rest returns you to the settings.
When you first select the event, the game is filled with ready-made values:
- Game type Knowledge quiz.
- 10 ready-made general knowledge questions, each with four options (for example "Which is the largest land animal?"). If you delete the ready-made questions, they do not come back; you add your own questions in Session → Questions.
- Total time 90 seconds, Questions per game All questions, Question order Random.
- Points per correct 100, Wrong answer penalty 0, Bonus per second left 10, Reveal correct answer and Sound effects on.
- The survey is on and has a single field asking the player's name; the field's label comes as Name in English. For an event in another language, change the label in Session → Survey.
- The disclaimer (privacy consent, GDPR) is on; the title comes as Privacy notice and the text in English. Write your own text in Session → Disclaimer.
- Design style Frost, color palette Purple Dream, lock icon at the bottom right.
Step 3 · Get to know the settings pages
Once you select the event, the left menu is gathered into three groups:
- Manage → Events (the event list) and Event Settings (Main: name and description; Kiosk: PIN, timeout, sync between devices).
- Design → Game Screens: the Main tab sets the colors, design style, logo, background and lock icon; the Call to Action, Input, Game, Thanks, Scoreboard tabs set the texts and layout of each guest screen; the Pause tab sets the pause screen.
- Run → Session: the content and rules of the game. The tabs in order are Game (game type, time, scoring), Survey (the information to collect from the player), Disclaimer (the privacy consent text and checkbox), Questions (the question pool), Outcomes (the result cards for the outcome quiz) and Scores (viewing and hiding the saved scores).
The White Labeling page only opens on the White Label / Ultimate plan. The details of each page are in the related topics.
Step 4 · Set a PIN code
Type a 4-digit PIN into the Dashboard PIN field. If the PIN is not exactly 4 characters, it is not saved and the warning PIN must be exactly 4 digits. Not saved. appears. If you do not set a PIN, anyone who taps the lock icon in the game goes straight into the settings.
The other settings on the same tab:
- Session Timeout: if the guest screen is not touched for a while, the game returns to the Welcome screen. Type the time in seconds. If you leave it empty or type 0, 300 seconds are used.
- Sync changes while the app is running: when on, settings changes you make to this event on another device also arrive on this device while the game is running.
- Touch to Start, Event Credit Limit and Run on Startup have no effect in Quiz Game. Touching the Welcome screen always starts the game, the game does not spend credits, and the app does not start by itself when the device boots.
Step 5 · Open the game to guests
Press the Run the App button in the left menu. If you have not selected an event, the warning Select an event first to run the app. appears.
The window that opens has two options:
- Run as Quiz Game: opens the game in full screen with the Welcome screen. From then on, guests play by themselves.
- Show Pause Screen: puts the pause screen on the display while you take a break. Guests cannot play during that time.
If the question pool is empty, the game still opens, but the button on the Welcome screen stays locked and a text saying that at least one question must be added appears on screen; add questions in Session → Questions and start again. If the game type is Outcome quiz and the result rule is Eliminate the ones that don't fit, and some answer paths do not end in a single outcome, the Decision tree is incomplete window appears before starting: Start anyway opens the game, Go back leaves you in the settings.
On Windows the game runs in a locked full screen; it cannot be left with Alt+Tab or Alt+F4.
Step 6 · Get back from the game to the settings
A small lock icon sits in one corner of the guest screens; its default place is the bottom right. Tap the icon. If you set a PIN, enter it in the Operator Access window. After the correct PIN, full screen is left and the settings open. On Windows, and on a Mac with a keyboard attached, the F11 or F12 key does the same job.
You change the icon's place and visibility in Game Screens → Main → Dashboard Icon:
- If you set the visibility to 0%, the icon is invisible but its spot keeps working. Tap that corner 5 times within 3 seconds.
- If you set the position to Off, nothing remains on the screen. In that case you can only exit with F11 or F12 on a keyboard.
The same icon and the same PIN are used while the pause screen is on.
Going into the event without setting a PIN: a guest who taps the lock icon gets into the settings.
Setting the Dashboard Icon to Off on a tablet or phone: without a keyboard you cannot leave the game.
Going live straight away with the ready-made settings: the name field's label is Name and the privacy consent text comes in English; the guest sees them as they are.
Deleting all the ready-made questions and adding none: the button on the Welcome screen locks, nobody can play.
Changing the language after creating the event and expecting the questions to be translated: the questions stay in the language they were first selected in; you have to edit them by hand.
Related topics
What Does the Guest See? One Game from Start to Finish How to Choose the Game Type? Knowledge Quiz and Outcome Quiz How to Add and Edit Questions? How to Set the Game Rules? How to Collect the Guest's Name and Consent? How to Set the Look of the Game? How to Set Up the Event Settings? PIN, Timeout, Language and Multiple Devices
