Do you know the location and name of the 125 largest Chinese cities? And do you know the provincial capitals?
This quiz game has several game modes:
- Point-to-city: Find a city on the map. There are three difficulty levels. On level 1, only the 20 largest mega-cities are asked, whereas on level 3 you get the full list of 125 cities.
- Name-by-location: Find the city name based on its location. Again, three difficulty levels.
- Capitals Mode: Find the name of the capital city for a given province or autonomous region (AR). Or, alternatively, find the name of the province or AR based on the city.
- The original editor is included:
ChinaCityEditor. It exports a generated Blitz2 file to the ram disk for further processing. - The names are mostly Pinyin except for some cities in AR (Lhasa,...) and the province 陕西 (Shaan-xi) for which another system is used for disambiguation. Also the syllables are separated by hyphens which is ideal for Pinyin learners.
- The game language is German - but you only need to know some key words in order to play it.
- The map was drawn by hand in Deluxe Paint, as it's hard to come by a scanner in 1996.
- The selection of cities and their size are taken from an atlas published in 1987 (this is why there are some fossils like Qing-jiang for Huai-an). This information is still not there on the internet, speaking of 1996, of course.
- The blinking city dots are reminiscent of Topo 64.
Put the repository into a mounted directory of an emulated Amiga 500 and run the executable in bin from the shell:
cd bin
ChinaCityQuiz
You can also start using the workbench (info-files provided).
The game is completely written in Blitz Basic 2. Its source code (both ASCII and tokenized) is also provided and can be run from the IDE if adjusting the compiler options:
- Default Compile buffers to be increased by factor 10.
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| Capitals mode: Enter the capital for a given province and vice-versa |
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| Point-to-city mode: Find the given city |
