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“1-UP” is a non-profit gaming organization that unites thousands of players, and teams around the world to compete in a 24-hour gaming marathon to support the fight against Child abuse. Since its creation in 2013, 1-UP’s events have been highly successful, and popular. However, due to the quick increase of interest, and future registrations, the company is worried the current registration process needs to be automated. The events are currently run using 1-5 front desk volunteers to register players, answer questions, and lastly direct the participants to their perspective rooms for competing. This has caused several events to run behind schedule, increased time waiting in line, and is making some leave early out of frustration. The proposed automated program will be a VBScript which will reduce player registration time by 70%, and reduce the number of volunteers needed at the front desk.

Since the company’s donations are taken online, and no personal information is needed at the front desk VBS was the preferred choice. VBS can be installed on any staff member’s device to account for situations where the company’s tablets do not arrive on time, or when needing additional outside devices. Although, “PowerShell is mature enough now that it can be run on operating systems more than 13 years old (XP and Server 2003)” (Bertram, 2015) it does have problems with legacy systems some company’s still use today.

The Program titled “SWTOR” is VBS, and will use Open Text File Method due to the fact they use very little disk space and require no additional software of any kind to be installed on the computer. The program will be placed on multiple tablets throughout the front floor for the players to register themselves, needing only 1-2 volunteers walking the floor to answer questions. The program will ask the player for the following information:

1. Player’s Full Name

2. Player’s Faction

3. Player’s GamerTag

Upon receiving this information, the program will then inform the players where he/she are assigned. The figures below will demonstrate the process:

Figure 1 Full Name.

Figure 2 Player’s Faction.

After the window prompts the player to enter Full name, the program will then automatically prompt for additional information:

Figure 3 GamerTag.

This information will be recorded alongside the players name to verify information:

Figure 4 Confirmation.

The confirmation will show a different room number based on the Faction that it’s associated with. This is done using “Dim” which is short for (Dimension) to declare what the variables name, and their specific type. The “fname = inputbox” through the “Room = inputbox” are used to initiate the prompt windows shown above.

When the player has completed the registration, and has received their room number. The script will then take the given information and either create a new folder for a new Faction or will place the player's information into an existing folder with the same Faction name as the one entered. This is done by using the statement "'create the folder with team name if it does not exists”. The “If Not” command will verify if there is indeed a folder already labeled with the given team. The files can then be looked over to verify later. The figures below will demonstrate the creation, and addition of the factions:

Figure 5 Creating Folders

Figure 6 Adding Information.

The set of code containing “If Not” command is used to argue that if there is no folder, next line starting with “Set newfolder = fso.CreateFolder” will create a new folder containing the newly registered team information. The folders containing the information is then saved to a text file that can be accessed later by staff members. For this proposal, I have created several teams listed as Republic, Empire, and Mandalorian which can be changed and/or tailored to fit future events.

Bertram, A. (2015, 3 19). vbscript-instead-of-powershell.aspx. Retrieved from mcpmag.com: https://mcpmag.com/articles/2015/03/19/vbscript-instead-of-powershell.aspx