This is the web version of the SpongeBob edition of a fusion of "Deal or No Deal", "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader", and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". (Note that none of "SpongeBob Squarepants," "Deal or No Deal," "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader," or "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" are owned by me.) This "game show fusion" is my original idea, and I started coding from scratch (with the help of many resources, of course).

I programmed this during the months September, October, and November of 2015, mostly while the fall quarter of my freshman year in college occured.

Regarding languages, I used HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

Regarding libraries, I used jQuery, AngularJS, and QUnit. The former two libraries are included through CDNs (Content Delivery Networks), whereas the latter library's two files are included in the repository.

The following YouTube video contains a demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Gk82HD09I

In this program, I greatly focused on using JavaScript custom types. I did not do so perfectly, but I did try. I do not think I consistently decoupled custom types well, but I mostly focused on OOP and the DRY principle.

The host, SpongeBob, explains the rules at the start of the game. Furthermore, he tells the user how to skip his explanation.

The game includes many of the characteristics of the three game shows that inspired it. Many examples follow. Each question has a monetary value. The user chooses whether or not to accept a deal from the banker. The user has four sources of help ("lifelines")--"Peek", "Ask the Audience," "Phone a Friend," and "Save"--and can choose from five helpers before every two questions. All helpers are characters from the television show "SpongeBob Squarepants". The user chooses the order in which he/she answers ten questions of various difficulties and subjects. The user, should he correctly answer the first ten questions, can attempt to answer a "million dollar question", or he can take his case home.

Currently, the game has 88 questions and 20 subjects. The game has six possible endings.

Anything SpongeBob or any of the helpers say is displayed in a quote bubble. The chaining of quotes is handled by an object that stores the quotes-to-draw until it's told to "deploy the quote chain."

The game manages what the user sees with a "canvas stack" (based on the idea of a state stack) that can be used to manage which of multiple canvases the user sees. Often, the canvas stack is used to show the user multiple canvases at once (e.g. one with text and one with graphics).

I used custom types to handle the displaying of various things (e.g. a type BriefcaseDisplay to handle the displaying of the briefcases).

Sound effects and background music appropriately play. The background tracks are from the soundtracks of "Deal or No Deal" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (I did not much like the soundtrack of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader."). The background music becomes more dramatic as the user answers more questions. The possibly famous "the banker is calling" music plays when the banker calls.

Canvases and audio elements are generated with AngularJS.

Preloading occurs for the images in the title screen. As this preloading occurs, a loading screen is shown. (However, usually, this loading screen shows for about a quarter of a second.)

The latest release is: v0.1

Please see the releases section under this repository on GitHub to download the latest release.

Run index.html on any browser that supports the HTML audio and canvas elements and mp3 files.

I've confirmed that the game works on modern versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera.

The game works best on Chrome, probably because I always tested it with Chrome. The game seems to work just as well on Opera.

On Internet Explorer, some sound effects don't play at all, and I don't know why. I had assumed they would all work, since W3Schools says that Internet Explorer supports mp3 files. However, the sound effects that do play do so more on time than they do on Firefox.

On Firefox, the sound effects are sometimes a little bit awkward in timing, and any text drawn on the canvases isn't as precisely positioned as it is when the game is run with Chrome.

It doesn't work on the most recent version of Safari (that I could find: 5.1.7) for Windows.

Run unit-tests.html. According to the QUnit website, the following browsers support unit testing with QUnit: "IE6+ and Current - 1 for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera." Thus, a modern version of a major browser should work.

To prevent trailing whitespace, I've enabled the pre-commit Git hook. However, this change can't be saved in the repository. To make this change, navigate to the directory .git/hooks, and rename "pre-commit.sample" to "pre-commit".

The book "HTML5 Games Development by Example" by Makzan provided me with an introduction to canvas-based web games.

The book "HTML5 Canvas Cookbook" by Eric Rowell helped me learn many things about the HTML5 canvas API.

The book "The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript" by Nicholas C. Zakas helped me greatly as I wrote the object-oriented GUI custom types.

The book "SFML Game Development" by Artur Moreira, Henrik Vogelius Hansson, and Jan Haller indirectly helped me by providing me with C++ versions of those aforementioned GUI custom types and of the custom types MusicPlayer and SoundPlayer.

The book "jQuery Game Development Essentials" by Selim Arsever taught me a few things that I applied to this game, such as image preloading.

The first few chapters of the book "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub taught me how to use Git Bash, which proved convenient as I wrote this application.

The book "The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas helped me make better decisions with this program.

I made the background of many of the images transparent with the website at www.online-image-editor.com.

I converted the format of some audio files with online-convert.com.

I made the sound effects with Bfxr.

The "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" music came from the YouTube user MillionaireSound.

That is me, Aaron Kaloti.

My email address: [email protected]

My YouTube channel (in which I demonstrate my finished applications): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHhcIcXErjijtAI9TWy7wNw/videos