It's been a few days, so I wanted to get a post out showing off the work on my next game scheduled for July 1! The game is looking better with a more consistent style, and two new screens have been implemented (stats/credits/saves, and an unshown 'previous day' screen for supporters). Hints are also displayed much differently than they were a few days ago!

Check out the video below for the updated gameplay and progress on features!

This is also the first day Newgrounds.io is working inside of the game. The login button actually works, and cloud saves are communicating! There's still a lot of work to implement medals, leaderboards, and cloud saves properly, but I expect to finish that by the end of this weekend. One feature I am excited to work on is utilizing multiple slots in the NG Cloud Save system versus saving everything to slot 1 like I had programmed in TT:NG. This was not an issue of course, but with the open-endedess of a daily game like this, I'd hate to hit a storage max if I can now plan around that!

Like what you see? Want to learn more? Have a suggestion? Feel free to send me a PM or leave a comment below!

Thanks for reading!

A new type of trivia game is coming soon! Forget dozens of questions with only a few answers with Trivial Guesser!

Trivial Guesser is a daily game focused around you guessing the title or phrase within four attempts. Each attempt you're given an extra hint, for a total of four. You're also given whether a letter is a match in your previously guessed phrases along with pre-set hints in the form of prefilled letters!

The first entry to the series

The first entry will not actually be Newgrounds-related. I'm hoping to make a Newgrounds 'Guesser' game but that iteration needs some more time in the oven. In the meantime, we've got the first entry included in the below video: Trivial Guesser: Video Games

In this game, you are looking to guess the title of a video game released to the respective platform. For example, Elden Ring has released to the PC! While it's also been released to other platforms, it is available for the PC, making it fair game. Game titles do not need to be exclusive to the platform for them to appear as a daily answer. If they were, that would make this a pretty difficult and short game...

Let me know what you think! The game has some fine-tuning to do of course but this is a first look into a new series of games I'm looking to release. It's planned to go live on July 1, 2024 right here on Newgrounds. Here's what you can expect on day 1:

• Newgrounds achievements and leaderboards
• integrated leaderboards displaying top 5 users of the month on the title screen
• 30 days worth of content for each category (more will be patched in AND/OR it will loop back to day 1 once it reaches its end. If this is a popular game you can expect I'll keep it updated!)
• NG cloud saves so you can keep progress and stats cross-device

Thanks for reading!

In case you didn't hear, Trivial Trivia: The Newgrounds Collection received a final update on Friday which added over 100 new questions across all trivia packs! This brings the game over 500 questions in total.

You can check the game out here:

Leaderboards are also now available on the 'review' screen after you finish a trivia session. See how your score ranks up to the top 20 of the month! You can even toggle this leaderboard to only include NG friends if you're logged in.

This update also made a few improvements on the backend (motion toggle fix, music handling, small bugs & text edits).

Since applessmillion and I are happy with the status of the game as it stands, we're willing to listen to any feedback, suggestions, and ideas going forward! We'll have a poll going out soon looking for anonymous feedback on the game and seeing what you guys would want to look for in the future. In the meantime, if anyone has trivia they don't see in the game that they think should be there, let us know! Feel free to drop a comment, review, or even DM with questions or trivia you know that you want to see! If your trivia is accepted, you'll be added on to the in-game credits as well.

In other news...

Work has begun on my next game and I'm not yet ready to share information about it as the idea needs some reworking in its current iteration. News regarding this game will be here later this week though!

Hello all!

The supporter preview of 80+ new questions for Trivial Trivia: The Newgrounds Collection will go live for EVERYONE to play at midnight tonight Newgrounds-time (EST)! There'll be an additional 20 or so new questions added on top of what's already available too. Be on the lookout for those if you're looking for some new content.

In other news, the icon for the game has been updated for a final time. Some feedback was received regarding the existing one and we've made some edits that make it easier to understand, read, and set the tone of the game (why was Trivial Trivia! in the corner with the sub-title The Newgrounds Collection on top? What's up with the smushed font??). The sub-title "The Newgrounds Collection" will be kept to better distinguish this game from the 2015 submission by applessmillion.

This new icon will also better align with other submissions coming in the future.

Another nightly update!

Tonight focused on functionality over form. I re-wrote core functions to better handle special case scenarios, such as if a non-number or non-letter would appear in the entry field. You can see a space being in the submission today correctly autofilled!

You'll also notice an answer log below the main entry field... I'm sure you can start to see where this is going.

I'll have more details on this game and what it will become this weekend!

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...

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.

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...

New feature: Top 20 Leaderboard

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!

Quick Review of the Stats

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!

Closing thoughts

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!

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!

Hello everyone!

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!

A rundown of the update

• Added 40 new questions to Newgrounds pack
• Added 30 new questions to Newgrounds Events pack
• Added 6 new questions to FNF pack
• Added 6 new questions to Pebbles Pack
• Added 1 new question to TANKMEN pack
• Added 1 new question to Madness pack
• Added 1 new question to Stickmen pack
• Ability to save between the live version and 'supporter preview'. This was something not too easy to implement - the game gets very angry about trivia packs having less questions than expected, but we were able to get this working!

Game going forward

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.

The future?

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!

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.

Stats update

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!