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!

Recap time

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!

Day 2 has yielded some great QoL updates for the game! To keep it brief:

The rundown

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!

My thoughts

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 game going forward

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.

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:

• Duplicate questions in packs (thus far there's only been 1 duplicate per pack except for the events pack)
• Issue with keyboard controls on the trivia screen
• Fatal issue with trivia score

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!

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.

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!

Know how a lot of HTML5 submissions do not have an indication for when a score is submitted or a medal is unlocked? The next Trivial Trivia game will not have that issue!

As of tonight a barebones notification system has been implemented into the game for Newgrounds activities.

Currently, you'll get a pop-up when you load the game and are signed in (or after a successful sign-in), submit scores to the leaderboards, and unlock a medal. Few bugs will be ironed out before the release of the game this Saturday.

Just some random thoughts on the upcoming game applessmillion and I have been hammering away at over the last month and a half.

What initially was planned as a 200-question game across 3 trivia 'categories' has quickly spiraled into something much larger. The fun part about Newgrounds is there's so much to talk about. With over 20 years of history, the website has seen many eras of users, submissions, and content that is honestly really neat.

The game was originally supposed to feature a 100-question history, functionality, and users' category alongside a 50-question NG events/collabs/game jams category. Short and simple 150-question game with a very generic and generalized NG theme.

But then, Pico day hit so there were discussions to implement some trivia about Pico and his games. One thing led to another and introduced new trivia for the Pico series, Madness Combat, TANKMEN, Pebbles Quest, and most recently Friday Night Funkin'. FNF was added this weekend as it was becoming increasingly difficult to have trivia surrounding so many eras and collections without some big mention of FNF and how it shaped the site in the last few years, so we worked to make a pack of 40 questions which wrapped today.

There's one last trivia pack in the works that will cover a range of characters as well, but you'll have to play the game on Saturday to find out what that is.

Not only have we created a total of 8 trivia packs ready to play, but 5 artists here on the site have agreed to feature their art in the game for these trivia packs too. What was originally planned to be something simple and relatively quick turned into a huge project with some really awesome collaboration with great people here.

In other news, the game features many leaderboards and medals to earn! Here's a quick picture of the medals:

The last trivia pack does not have medals added yet - they will be soon!

Short update but it's something!

Another new feature for the Trivial Trivia series is the fact that you can play it on any screen size, and any Newgrounds-capable device! Mobile brings a unique feature as well - fullscreen mode! Launching into fullscreen on your mobile device will even hide the status bar (at least on Android) so you get the full gaming experience!

Creating the pages to respond to different screen sizes, including changes on the fly certainly isn't a cakewalk, but its current implementation is great. You can easily play trivia packs wherever you are!

old image but it gets the point across

If everything goes well, the game will have 7 (up from the original 5 planned) trivia packs with a over 300 questions combined! You can test your NG knowledge on June 1 when the game drops!

It's taken the weekend to iron out, but the next Trivial Trivia game will have a 'catchup' mechanic! Each trivia session is composed of 20 questions taken from however many total questions are in a trivia pack. Up until today, these questions were picked randomly. But now... you will be able to view new questions & incorrectly answered questions even easier!

How it works

Each new trivia session, 20 questions are picked.

• The game first checks for any viewed, but incorrectly guessed questions. It'll add up to 8 random questions meeting this criteria to the round.
• Next, the game checks for questions never viewed before. It'll add up to 10 new questions for you!
• Finally, the game fills in the rest of the questions with entries you've seen before and answered correctly. You are guaranteed to have a minimum of 2 per round show up, with a maximum of 20 (in case you've seen & answered a full trivia pack).

This ensures you'll be given the chance to view everything & answer everything correctly!

Why is this useful?

The main trivia pack in this game - 'All About Newgrounds' will have 100 questions in total! This means you'll need to play a minimum of 5 times to see every question. There's also a secret medal you can unlock that requires answering a set amount of questions correctly across sessions.

The next Trivial Trivia game will be published Saturday, June 1!

As @applessmillion has mentioned, Trivial Trivia: the Newgrounds Collection (TT:NGC) is dropping June 1!

So what can you expect to see?

This game will come in 'packs', which are sets of questions focused around one topic or category. This game will feature 5 (maybe 6?) packs, which include the following:

• All About Newgrounds.com
• All About Pico (and Friends)
• All About Madness
• All About Tankmen
• All About Events & Jams (name being workshopped)

These packs will have over 30 questions (one has 85!) focused on each of those topics. Each of these packs will have stat tracking separate of each other, so you can easily find what questions you've encountered, your best score, total plays, and more for each pack!

I'll be posting sporadic updates leading up to the game's release, so look out for more details soon! Will probably post what to expect with Newgrounds medals and leaderboard integration...