Edit a game
If you wish to edit the settings of a ready-made game that is online, or one from your device, because e.g. you may need to fix something, you disagree with the assignments or you just want to make it more meaningful to you, you should enter the Edit Mode.
Edit Mode
First, you need to select the specific game if it is from the online examples, or load it from your device (see Load Game) and then select Edit from the top right.
Figure 12: Edit Game Selection
Then, the game opens in Design Mode where you will be able to modify the existing game elements, add or remove objects and columns, change the display number of the objects, and also the correspondence of classifying them into categories.
Figure 13: Selected game’s table of contents – Edit Mode
For example, when editing the Seasonal Fruits game , we notice that the apricot object is assigned to the spring category. If you believe that it should also belong to the summer category, you can select the corresponding checkbox and either uncheck the spring checkbox or leave both categories as correct, since SorBET allows one-to-many classification.
Figure 14: Editing the classification assignments
Manage Categories
Moreover, you can add a new category e.g. All year, if some fruits thrive in all seasons, by selecting the Add Category button in the columns of the categories or remove another by selecting one that you don’t think as necessary category and delete it e.g. Autumn (Figure 16).
Figure 15: Adding a new category in an existing game
Figure 16: Delete an unwanted category from an existing game
Manage Objects
Add or remove objects
You can also delete some of the existing objects by clicking Delete object button on top of the table rows or add more objects in the game, e.g. more of your favorite fruits, using the adjacent Add object button.
Figure 17: Add a new object in an existing game
Figure 18: Delete an object in an existing game
Object customization
Once you add or modify an object, you can select the object type, i.e. whether it is going to be text or image.
If you select the text type, you can type in the textbox the text to appear (it supports both Greek and English characters, numbers and special symbols). If you select the image type, you can upload an image from your computer that will represent the falling object.
Moreover, you can modify the number of instances of each object that will appear during the gameplay. This means that if e.g. you put the number 3 next to the apricot object, three instances of this object will fall during the same game at a random time and order.
Figure 19: Modify an object’s type and number of instances
Play or download the game
After you finish editing the game you can play it online to see how it looks. To do so, click Play at the upper right of the screen. You can also download it to your computer in order to edit it later, share it with others, or just save it in your archives. To download the game, click Download at the upper right of the screen.
Figure 20: Play or download a game after editing it