🍎 How to create a Flying Fruit activity

The Flying Fruit template is a vibrant, fast-paced arcade game that tests recognition speed and accuracy. It challenges students to smash or pop floating fruit items that contain the correct answer to a displayed question while ignoring incorrect options.

In this article:

• How is the Flying Fruit activity played?

• How and what do you type into Edit content for Flying Fruit?

• Where can I find some more examples?

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How the activity is played

The game displays a prompt at the bottom of the screen while various fruits float upwards.

• The prompt: A central question, incomplete sentence, or clue is displayed at the base of the arena.

• The interaction: Students must click, tap, or swipe to pop the pieces of fruit that carry the correct answer tile.

• The challenge: Floating fruits contain both correct options and incorrect distractors. Popping a fruit with a wrong answer will cost a life!

• Completion: Once all correct fruits are hit or the questions are exhausted, students can view their final score, check their speed, and log their performance on the Leaderboard.

  

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Creating your Flying Fruit activity

1. Click Create Activity and choose Flying Fruit.

   
    

2. Add your content:

   • Question: Enter your question statement, equation, or definition prompt.

   • Choices: Enter your choices in the fields below. Provide a mix of correct answers and distractors (labeled A through F).

3. Ensure you check the box next to the right choice. You can check multiple boxes if more than one option is correct.

4. Optional: Click the image icon next to the question or answer options to substitute text strings with visual assets.

5. Click Add a question or press Enter to build the next level.

6. Click Done to save your activity.

   
    

7. Scroll down to Visuals to add a creative style to your activity, or tailor the difficulty in the Options panel below the activity:

   

   • Timer:

     • None: No time limit is enforced, giving students an untimed environment to complete the game.
     • Count up: Displays a stopwatch that tracks exactly how long the student takes from start to finish.
     • Count down: Sets a strict time limit (e.g., 5 minutes). The activity ends automatically when the clock hits zero.

   • Lives:

     • Use the slider to determine how many mistakes a student can make before getting a "Game Over." In the screenshot, this is set to 3 lives.

   • Speed:

     • Adjust the slider to set the movement or progression speed of elements within the game. In the screenshot, this is configured to level 2.

     • Retry after incorrect answer: When checked, this option forces students to attempt the question again if they get it wrong, rather than instantly skipping it.

   • End of game:

     • Show answers: Allows students to review the full list of correct responses at the end of the session.

   • Random:

     • Shuffle item order: Shuffles the original sequence of questions so they appear in a completely random order each time the activity is launched, preventing memorisation.

   • Answer display time:

     • OPTIONS_INPUT_ANSWERDISPLAYTIME: Set the exact duration (measured in milliseconds, currently set to 1000 ms or 1 second) that the correct or incorrect feedback screen remains visible before the game automatically transitions to the next item.

   • Saving options:

     • Apply to this activity: Saves choices for the current game.

     • More: Tap this drop-down to find:

       • Set as default for template: Sets these options as your standard for all future activities using this template.

       • Revert to default: Returns the panel to your previously saved personal defaults.

       • Revert to author's setting: Restores the settings used by the original creator of a community activity.

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Creating Flying Fruit with AI

You don't need to be a prompt expert to use our AI. It is designed to be intuitive and accessible directly from the activity creator.

1. Click Create Activity and select Flying Fruit.

   
    

2. Look for the ✨ Generate with AI button (magic wand icon) at the top right of the content editor.

   
    

3. Enter your content:

   • Topic: Type a subject like "Prime Numbers" or "Synonyms for Happy."

   • Text / Notes: Paste a paragraph from a lesson. The AI will extract the core concepts to craft multiple-choice questions perfect for an arcade setup.

   • File: Upload a PDF or Word doc. Wordwall AI reads your material, structures clear questions, and sets up clever distractors automatically.

4. Click Generate. Review the question/answer sets, make any manual tweaks, and hit Done.

   

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Need inspiration?

Some examples of Flying Fruit activities have been created by our users and shared with the Wordwall resource community.