{"id":9899,"date":"2017-03-12T22:08:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T22:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2017-03-13T08:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:50:06","slug":"bothers-bar-does-de-slimste-mens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9899","title":{"rendered":"Bother&#8217;s Bar does De Slimste Mens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right, so if you didn&#8217;t join in with our <strong>Schlag den Star<\/strong> watchalong on Saturday you probably missed Bother&#8217;s Bar Does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=2939\"><strong>De Slimste Mens<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;they&#8221; won&#8217;t make it so we will &#8211; an English language edition of one of our favourite Flemish quiz formats. I thought it would be a good idea to edit that into its own video. So here it is!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DEzZfXDoBOU\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know, right! I quite like doing producer commentary, so I will tell you my thoughts under a cut so as to not ruin the result or anything.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>First of all my thanks to unofficial site <a href=\"http:\/\/deslimstemens.nu\">deslimstemens.nu<\/a> for having programmed and setting up the game control. It&#8217;s free to sign up and create your own quizzes, but if you want to play with all the bells and whistles there&#8217;s a couple of Euros\u00a0fee (apparently server costs were getting high), although there is a stripped down free version available also. Right now the person running it hasn&#8217;t worked out how to do sound from both Quizmaster&#8217;s screen and Contestant&#8217;s screen, I got round this by having two separate windows up at once &#8211; the one I shared for the contestants and my QM screen with all the buttons on it (mouse, keyboard or touch control, very intuitive although a bit AZERTY) and my sound mixer did the lifting. It&#8217;s pretty easy to use &#8211; nothing a bit of intuition and Google Translate can&#8217;t sort. On TV the game is traditionally played with three players, the software can cope with up to four. The creator is constantly improving it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of game controls and I would be happy to pay to use them, up to a point, although I don&#8217;t know how big the market is for them. I&#8217;m working on something for an upcoming Game Night Final which involves lots of graphics and 100-odd questions in PowerPoint. It&#8217;s not coming any time soon, especially as there&#8217;s another SdS in April.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3-6-9<\/strong> &#8211; I nicked all these questions from a round of most recent The Chase Quiz Book. Sorry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open Door<\/strong> &#8211; I did a little bit of formatting here as we can&#8217;t have celebrities giving questions like on TV, so made a distinction that this round would be about <em>people and things<\/em> and Collective Memory would be about <em>events<\/em> &#8211; this might be quite close to how it actually works, I don&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Puzzle\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Wow, this surprised me a lot. The clues and categories were a mixture of translated supplied ones and my own (if you&#8217;re making a quiz and hit the two arrows, it will fill with a random question). The &#8216;1999&#8217; Prince clue was originally &#8216;Purple Rain&#8217; which I thought was too much of a dead giveaway, 1999 has many more connotations. I wrote most of these, at the time I thought they were a bit easy so I was quite shocked that everyone had so much difficulty. I&#8217;ve also just realised that the puzzle round is effectively Open Door but in reverse &#8211; you get the keywords and have to come up with the subject. Also <strong>De Slimste<\/strong> existed many years before <strong>Only Connect<\/strong> and had <strong>Pointless<\/strong> friends years before Pointless so don&#8217;t bother writing to OFCOM. I know what <em>you&#8217;re<\/em> like.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gallery<\/strong> &#8211; these were all pre-made, although I swapped out some Flemish singers that our contestants would have had no chance of guessing with Jarvis Cocker and Garth Brooks. I kept Jacques Brel because I reckon he&#8217;s famous enough even if not mainstream, and I also recently bought a new best of Marc Almond collection and he&#8217;s always banging on about him.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Collective Memory<\/strong> &#8211; I came up with all of these (most of the supplied ones were too Flemish) although I think in many ways some of the answers people were giving were a lot better than the ones I put in, especially on the World Cup question. Also I did see them do a question on Live Aid once on the Dutch version, although I couldn&#8217;t remember the answers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Final\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; These were a combination of translated originals and my own. I think they turned out fairly\u00a0well, I think the talkabout a subject questions are more entertaining but most of the supplied ones were list questions. I think I had fifteen lined up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there we are, will probably do again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right, so if you didn&#8217;t join in with our Schlag den Star watchalong on Saturday you probably missed Bother&#8217;s Bar Does De Slimste Mens &#8211; &#8220;they&#8221; won&#8217;t make it so we will &#8211; an English language edition of one of our favourite Flemish quiz formats. 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