Zoom Jeopardy lets you host Jeopardy games for friends over Zoom, with all the bells and whistles of the real broadcast show. You can play over 1,000 full archival Jeopardy games, or write your own clues and answers.
Zoom Jeopardy runs inside TouchDesigner, an application which runs on Mac and Windows and handles the video compositing, clues, scores, and sound. TouchDesigner is free for noncommercial use.
As a host, you’ll run a game by starting a Zoom call with players. You’ll distribute a “green screen” for players to set as their virtual background. You’ll arrange their video on your screen, and select the region of screen their video occupies - Zoom Jeopardy will handle grabbing that live video and compositing it into the game.
To get started:
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Download and install Zoom
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Download and install TouchDesigner (Mac or Windows): https://derivative.ca/download ( If you already have Touch, please update to the most recent version.)
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Download and unzip Zoom Jeopardy: Either from here, on GitHub, or at https://mfrederickson.com/ZoomJeopardy
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Open the main Zoom Jeopardy TouchDesigner file, named ZoomJeopardy.toe
If you want to learn Touch, here are a few links to check out:
Learn | Derivative Getting started | Derivative The Interactive & Immersive HQ TouchDesigner – Matthew Ragan
If you go poking around in the Touch file to make changes, most of the interesting stuff lives in /jeopardy/jeopardyGame, a text DAT.
To any of you who build in Touch, I’m sorry the main /jeopardy section is not in containers. I never intended for the project to get this big when I started and wanted to get this out fast. Also, apologies about the inconsistent use of GAME_STATE. I got lazy.
Zoom Jeopardy was created by Michael Frederickson
All sound, images, clues, and game ideas are property of Jeopardy
Archival clues from J-Archive
Standby arcade carpet patterns from Astro Carpet Mills
To official Jeopardy types:
Nobody is making any money off of this. It's just for fun, and reminds people that they like your show.
Let the people play! ok, thank you