Joined on 2/29/24
Posted by TeamTrivial - 1 month ago
After posting yesterday, I really was not happy with how the game was looking. I didn't focus much on functionality so progress is the same there, but it's at least prettier!
I'd post a picture of the title page, but that would really give away what this will be...
Posted by TeamTrivial - 1 month ago
New project incoming!
This is a new project I've started working on over the weekend. Since TT:NG is wrapped, I have been able to focus on a new idea for a Newgrounds-related submission.....
It's not pretty, but it is coming along in functionality! In the above picture, you can see a very basic GUI and on-screen keyboard input. The keyboard has taken the bulk of my weekend to get working.
More info soon... I'm really hoping for a July 1 release date as it would make sense releasing this game on the first of a month.
Posted by TeamTrivial - 1 month ago
It's (almost) officially been one week since the release of Trivial Trivia: The Newgrounds Collection! Since the release of the game, it has received a handful of fixes, updates, and feature additions! Tonight's update to the game is no different...
You can now view the top 20 scores for a trivia pack for a given month! How does your score compare to other Newgrounders?
To better fit everything onto the page, the stats information including your score breakdown has been moved to the right-hand side menu. This leaderboard also works well on [most] mobile devices! A fun tid-bit about user display - supporters are recognized (or targeted, your take) by having a square user icon versus the circular one! You can also click on the user's name to visit their profile!
A bugfix included in this update is the gradient background not respecting the motion toggle button. It will now stop moving when motion is reduced!
This updateis currently only visible to Newgrounds Supporters via the preview link here:
https://www.newgrounds.com/projects/games/5683265/preview
Supporters get this timed exclusive until next Friday, June 14!
It's been quite the week for this trivia game! It's had over 13,000 plays as of writing this, and received over 110 favorites and 215 reviews! It's been awesome seeing what everyone thinks of the game and what they think of the trivia.
The game continues to get a good amount of views, plays, and interactions!
While the last update to the game came tonight for supporters and will arrive for everyone else on June 14, the trivia does not stop here! I plan to write another post here on June 15 with a poll link to get ideas for the next trivia pack! I have an idea for what next month will bring, but you'll have to wait to learn more!
The game itself will also still receive updates in future iterations of the Trivial Trivia games. No plans set in stone on how to make it a fun(ner) experience, but it will be a continually improved upon series!
Haven't played the game yet and made it this far? Give it a try!
Posted by TeamTrivial - 1 month ago
TL;DR:
Supporters, you can view the update here:
https://www.newgrounds.com/projects/games/5683265/preview
I plan to keep this update locked to the preview page until 1 week from now, June 14.
On with the post!
Today the timed-exclusive update for Supporters arrived! This adds a little over 80 new questions to the game for you to play with. As always, the game will deliver at least 8-10 new questions per round, and up to 20 new questions if you've already viewed and answered all questions correctly. If you haven't yet played the game, these will be mixed in with the existing questions for you to play with!
This is planned to be the final content update for the game with the exception of maybe 4 questions being added to a few packs to get them all up to 50 questions in total. If there's enough time to make that a reality, the game would be updated for a final time by the end of the month.
I plan to keep this update locked to the preview page until 1 week from now, June 14.
As always, thanks everyone for checking the game out and leaving great comments and messages for me to read through! I really enjoy the positive feedback received thus far and suggestions/reports sent to me as well.
I'm looking to potentially take an extra month to develop a new Trivial Trivia game. I like the release schedule being either the first of the month or the first weekend of the month, but I have a new idea for a game that should get Newgrounders a little more excited than just your normal Q&A style game. I'm working on the foundation of this new game since the middle of this week, and plan to continue work on it until next weekend. If I can't get it working how I want it, we'll plan for a new Trivial Trivia release on July 5-6. If I have a working concept of this new game however... you'll have to see!
I would also like to start streaming to YouTube soon to show off the development process of this new concept and how we build out trivia packs. There'd be no audio commentary, but I plan to have the Newgrounds radio playing in the background!
Until next time!
P.S. thanks for getting the game above 11k views! I am utterly shocked with how quickly the game is getting viewed and played. Big thanks to all those visitors who are playing the game and hopefully learning something new about the site and the Newgrounds characters!
Posted by TeamTrivial - 1 month ago
Quick few updates!
Cross-browser support has been vastly improved! It came to my attention that I implemented some code in a non-standard way that would only work in what is known as "Quirks" mode for your browser. This was fine for Chrome, but in Firefox and other browsers the game would display oddly or have things off-center.
Was my bad for doing a few things in a quirky way, but it should be fixed with an update going out in the next few minutes.
Example of game running in non-quirks mode. Background is iffy, and the Trivia pack image doesn't load at all!
View after the published update
If you notice anything quirky about this update, please let me know! I've run down each page and screen of the game and it all looks good in Firefox, Chrome, and mobile, but if you're using a different browser and notice something off, let me know! If you're using Legacy Microsoft Edge, Safari, or Internet Explorer though, get a better browser.
I sorta messed up stats tracking for today - I published an update around 5:00 PM EST which swapped over some events to new events. For example, the SupporterTitleLoad event was replaced with TitleLoad_Supporter. I also added a CreditClick event to track clicks on the "View website" buttons in the credits page.
Why?
This is all to pave the way for better understanding who is playing, how the interact with the game, and to better tailor features towards the who. For example, I found the majority of users playing the game today did not log in to Newgrounds Passport OR were not logged in to the site. Only a few supporters (~100) loaded up the game and even fewer non-supporters loaded it up. This of course may be different as I only got 7 hours of tracking for some of the stats.
Looking at the stats, total QuizSessions has been pretty consistent throughout the week! Total Views is way up though, not sure what made 'guests' come to play the game today, but I appreciate it. The game also has now reached over 8,000 views according to the submission page, and I really really do appreciate it! Thanks for the support everyone!
Posted by TeamTrivial - 1 month ago
Surprisingly this has been an eventful evening and I have a few updates for the game arriving shortly!
The first iteration of my implementation of Newgrounds Cloud Saves will be coming to Trivial Trivia: The Newgrounds Collection tonight! After a few hours of working tonight I've been able to test and verify cloud saves are working with no issue.
All your trivia data is safely stored in this very, very long string that gets uploaded to the Newgrounds cloud if enabled.
Per applessmillion's sporadic update today describing a lack of supporter-only features, we will make this a supporter only feature. He's also been grinding out additions to the trivia packs as well, looks like there are already ~30 new questions to be added. Look forward to that near the end of this week.
I'll post to the supporter-only forum once the update is live asking anyone interested in cloud saves to take a peek and see what they think!
Today was honestly pretty neat - of the ~400 Total Views (which I do not believe is 100% accurate), the average viewer played slightly over 4 quizzes! That's awesome!
Credit page is also viewed significantly more, and score submissions are up!
Till later!
Posted by TeamTrivial - 1 month ago
Day 2 has yielded some great QoL updates for the game! To keep it brief:
qwerty741 spent a lot of time combing through the trivia packs and found out that I am lacking a good spell-check tool. Whoops. He also assisted me on finding the root issue of one really bad bug that would pop up if you were too quick on the trivia-taking page. Basically, this bug would lock you out of trivia until you deleted your data... oops. A quick fix has been implemented to fix this but but I'd like to publish one last update to resolve any other edge-cases like this that may still exist.
NG stats are fully implemented! It's been fun to look at the numbers and figure out how the game is played. Here's the rundown for June 2:
This shows me that of the 600 plays, the average user will play 2 trivia games. 1 in 2 people will view their stats for a trivia pack, and slightly less than 1 in 2 will view the source of a question asked. Surprisingly, only about 1 in 4 of people will submit a score to earn medals/leaderboard rankings. Less than 6% of users have viewed the in-game credits (maybe they've already seen the great people who helped in the submission description?). Maybe I should make a medal in future games to view this page?
Unfortunately I did not implement stats on the game until ~20 hours after the game was published. I'd love to know how much trivia was played at first, but that'll be stats for the next game!
I view the click count for viewing sources to be very successful. One thing I hate about existing trivia games is I have no clue what the source of the information is, or whether it's out of date or not! At least with this game, you can see a question, think about it, and read more of why the answer is what it is. I appreciate that some people playing have a similar or same idea.
I also really appreciate everyone voting on the game and allowing it to rank 3rd place for the daily picks!
The plan is to watch the game over the next week and iron out any issues that arise. Daily updates will not be guaranteed. Next Friday will be the last bugfix/update to the game unless something really bad pops up down the line. Discussions on what comes next for the series will start afterwards.
Posted by TeamTrivial - 1 month ago
What a day! Trivial Trivia has been viewed over 1,000 times today and all Newgrounds medals have been unlocked by at least five people; this includes the secret medals (this is a bigger achievement than it may sound - for some of those trivia packs the secret medal isn't fun).
Big thanks to everyone who voted, commented, and favorited the game too! Your support brought the game above a four star rating, which also got the game to rank daily 3rd (which is also what the 2015 entry got, what are the odds?!)
How the day went
The game received several updates today! They fixed fonts and stat tracking for mobile users, added a way to reset progress if you're stuck due to trivia pack bugs, and just 30 minutes ago released a small update with bug fixes and 5 new trivia questions for TANKMEN, Stickmen, and Madness! There are now over 400 trivia questions in total!
This morning, I woke up to the game recieving many comments and was already out of judgement. Even better, it was featured right on the front page for everyone to see! Huge thanks to TomFulp and everyone else who brought all this positivity to the game today and helped it many many members of Newgrounds. I hadn't intended this to be so big but glad to see so many people are happy with the game!
What's next?
But what's really next?
@qwerty741 has been a big help today identifying some odd bugs with the game, including some issues with the trivia pack questions. I really appreciate the in-depth reports they have provided and have been working on getting the issues fixed. These include:
Most issues have already been addressed but further safeguards are being added to give everyone a bug-free experience. Again, big thanks to them!
EDIT: Update described below has been published. Enjoy fixes + new questions added to existing packs!
I will be publishing another update tonight to add some Newgrounds stats tracking to the game, specifically analytics regarding trivia pack plays, screen views, etc. This will hopefully give me a good idea of how the game is played and navigated.
For the future of the Trivial Trivia series, @applessmillion and I have an agreement in place so that I can continue the series. We'll chat and see where the game should go soon! I know they have expressed issue with some of the 'classic' games in the series, so we may see about either re-releasing those entries or remastering them into a new pack like 'The Newgrounds Collection'.
If you have any suggestions, feedback, or hate mail (pls no) feel free to leave a comment or drop me a DM! I'm really interested to hear what people think about trivia, the series, and what you would like to see!
Posted by TeamTrivial - June 1st, 2024
Howdy all,
look forward to some trivia dropping later this morning! Just pushed the final bugfix for tonight and have it automatically scheduled to publish later this morning.
Let me know your thoughts on the project and what you'd like to see in the future!
I plan to hold a proper poll/survey next week to get some further feedback as well.
Posted by TeamTrivial - May 31st, 2024
I'm less than 24 hours from pressing the big publish button for the next Trivial Trivia game despite having plenty of self-challenges to go. The task for this morning was to look into keyboard support for the game. What this would mean is you can play through 100% of the game and view everything that you normally would be able to view with a mouse.
Was it easy? Nah. Does it work? Yep!
Introducing keyboard support for the TT series - featuring labels for buttons and elements across the game! To toggle these hints, press K to display the number on your keyboard you need to press to 'click' the button. While this is barebones and not the best implementation for keyboard support in a highly cursor-based game, it is something! It's also the first time I've ever tried mapping key inputs to events in Javascript!
You'll be able to play this hodgepodge of personal challenges tomorrow morning when the game releases!
