Mario Kart Trivia Dashboard

What it is

A trivia scoreboard, themed around mario kart.

Libraries

The scoreboard uses the wonderful PyGame library, built on SDL.

How to use it

Starting the scoreboard

Run the scoreboard itself with:

$ ./scoreboard.py

or by double-clicking the scoreboard.py script.

While its running, you can modify the scores.txt file, then hit the Refresh scores button (see table below) to update the scoreboard.

Editing the scores

Edit scores.txt with the scores for each team.

• You can have up to 8 teams
• The first column represents the team number
• The second column represents the image file to display (check images/ for the names)
• The 3rd to nth columns represent the scores
• You can enter positive or negative space-separated numbers
• You can have as many numbers as you'd like

Example scores.txt file

1 mario 0 18 11 -5 3 4
2 toad 0 22 21 10 -10 -5 3 
3 peach 0 17 20 -5 2 2 2 3 3 1 
4 luigi 0 16 23 10 -5 5 3 4
5 yoshi 0 15 21 4 4 4
6 donkey_kong 0 15 1
7 bowser 0 20 20 -5

Customising it

You can modify the images in the images/ directory as much as you want to customise the look of the scoreboard!

You can also add your own custom songs to the sfx/ directory, and the scoreboard will automatically load (and play) them when told to.

Keybindings

+-------------------------------+----------------+
| Refresh scores                | F12            |
| Hit/reset item block          | <team number>  |
| Shake/unshake team number     | F<team number> |
| Shake all team numbers        | F11            |
| Stop shaking all team numbers | F10            |
| Play music                    | P              |
| Stop music                    | S              |
| Play starting round music     | Enter or A     |
| Play ending round music       | F              |
| Go to high score screen       | L              |
| Increase scores displayed     | Up arrow       |
| Decrease scores displayed     | Down arrow     |
+-------------------------------+----------------+

Future features

• Ability to customise the keybindings in a configuration file
• Ability to re-layout the images (e.g. if the image sizes change) in a configuration file

Credits

© 2011-12 Sasha Bermeister