A basic Kahoot clone written in Rust. Launches a server which reads questions from a given text file and allows players to play the quiz via browser. The idea is:
- Host creates a list of multiple choice questions
- Host launches the server with these questions
- Players connect to the server and chooses a nickname (important)
- They also answer the questions, within a time limit
- Once the questions are finished, users are shown the final scoreboard
- The player with the most correct answers feels good about themselves
- Clone/download the repo
- Launch with
cargo r --release /path/to/question/file- This will launch it on localhost:7878
- See the example question file for the required structure
- Wait for users to join via browser
- Not necessary, but prevents people from missing out on questions
- Press return to start the questions
There is an example question file to show the general structure. Basic rundown:
- Questions are seperated by two newline
- First charachter of the question is the index of the correct answer
- Therefore, no question can have more than 10 answers
- The rest of the first line is the question
- Each following line is a possible answer
The connection between server and client is done via WebSockets. This allows the client to play in their browser without constantly loading a new page. The WS implementation may be a bit janky, I wrote it myself for whatever reason.
In order of difficulty:
- Take host and port as input
- Randomise order of the questions and answers
- Make question answer time dynamic, based on length of the question
- Start quizzes via web
- Create quizzes via web as well
- Ideally all quiz makers and quiz takers just interact with a website
- Multiple games running at once (like real kahoot)