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Scorched Choice is a free Windows application that randomly selects 5 contestants to compete against each other. The contestants are chosen at random from a list of names, and a single winner emerges from the animated battle at sea. You may download Scorched Choice for Windows XP and use it free of charge.
Scorched Choice is ideal for conferences and public give-aways since it provides an entertaining animated sequence (less than 1 minute in duration) that selects a single winner. It has been used for several years to select a door prize winner from the Computing Seminar at Harding University.
Scorched Choice was developed by Frank McCown as part of a college project and is based on Scorched Sea, a Battleship game developed in 1996 for Windows.
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Enter all the names of the contestants and press "Start!". |
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Five contestants are randomly selected to compete and are assigned as captains to five different ships. |
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The five ships are randomly placed on a 10x10 grid, and play begins. The computer randomly bombs each of the ships. Sometimes a kamikaze attacks a ship and destroys it with a single hit. Play continues until only one ship remains. |
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The captain of the final remaining ship uses Weapon X to destroy the enemy and is declared the winner. |
Download
You may download Scorched Choice for Windows XP and use it free of charge.
Installing
Just unzip the zip file into any folder (example: C:\scorpick) and run ScorPick.exe.
Configuration
There are several ways you can modify and configure Scorched Sea for your own use:
- captions.txt - contains the saying displayed by one of the captains before the content begins. You can change these comments; just make sure the entire comment fits on a single line.
- opponents.txt - lists the name of the opponents that are randomly displayed in the upper-right side of the main screen. Change as desired.
- team.txt - lists the team names that are randomly displayed in the upper-left side of the main screen. Change as desired.
Scoreched Choice - © 1996-2007 by Frank McCown Email:
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