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Trivia Tricks 0.9.23.4 (Stage Loading Hotfix)

Howdy! Hope y'all are enjoying the Summer Splash Event so far! This is a small hotfix fixing an issue related to player joining!

  • Fixed an issue where clients joining a lobby that didn't have the Isle del Trickster Map selected would see and hear Isle del Trickster Map elements alongside the selected map.

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Summer Splash Event! New Challenges, Cosmetics + Workshop Updates!


Hello Tricksters!

We're heading back to Isle del Trickster for another holiday getaway!

The Trivia Tricks Summer Splash event has returned and is better than ever! The event will be available from now until September 1st!



First off, you’ll notice The Isle is looking a bit different! Since the Tricksters discovered it last year they’ve made the space much more homely. There’s also suitable summer music on the stage now, meaning all levels have unique music. We hope you'll enjoy some quality time at the beach, and don't forget your sunscreen!



Of course, Summer Splash includes some limited-time challenges and exclusive cosmetics! Some challenges will reward you with Summer Shells that can be exchanged for cosmetics, while others grant exclusive items!



As well as returning challenges, there’s a new set inspired by the recent addition of Steam Workshop support. If you need help with a challenge don't hesitate to make use of the Trivia Tricks Discord! As always, all of the cosmetics from last year have returned too, so grab them while you can!



We’ve also got some UI additions to share! Trending Workshop packs will now appear in the main menu and can be subscribed to! Additionally, after players have seen enough questions in a pack, they will be asked if they want to submit a rating. We think this will reward creators for their hard work and help players find the highest quality packs that are being uploaded! We’re also experimenting with pack tags, filter options for question count and an expanded search tool. Watch this space!

Oh! One last thing! Achievement hunters will find a new achievement tracking menu in the Statistics page. Have you reached 100% completion yet? There’s also a new button in the Workshop Preview menu to ‘reload’ your question pack so you can quickly review your edits. Hopefully this will make adding those final polishing touches to your packs much faster!

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The full patch notes are as follows...

  • The Summer Splash event is back! From now until September 1st complete limited-time challenges to unlock exclusive items!
  • The Isle del Trickster stage has been revamped with more visual flair, and has an exclusive soundtrack!
  • The missions from last year have returned, along with 6 new missions focused on the Steam Workshop!
  • Alongside the 16 returning cosmetics, unlock 6 new summer-themed items, including a Mermaid Tail and Tiki Mask!
  • For the duration of the Summer event, bosses will also be dressed for the occasion!


  • When you've seen 10 questions in a Workshop pack, Trivia Tricks will ask you to rate the pack when the game is over
  • Alternatively, you can just skip this if you haven’t made up your mind yet!
  • If you've enjoyed the questions in a Quiz Pack, give it a Thumbs Up to help other players discover it!


  • A new section has been added to the Main Menu that shows you trending Workshop packs.
  • Packs with the most subscriptions, high popularity in the last 7 days and a lot of thumbs up can appear here.
  • You can subscribe to these packs from the main menu by clicking the "Subscribe" button.


  • A new page has been added to the Statistics Menu, which shows the achievements that you've earned so far!
  • Every achievement in Trivia Tricks also unlocks a cosmetic when it has been achieved - in this list, you can easily see which achievement unlocks which cosmetic!
  • You can also see the progress to unlocking achievements in one place, without needing to navigate the statistics menu!


  • A "reload" button has been added to the Workshop Preview Menu to make it faster for you to review any edits that have been made to the pack.
  • A new widget has been added when players are prompted to join the Chance Round, to make it more obvious on how to join it.
  • The Twitch characters will now throw Bits again!
  • Improved the rate at which the Twitch Chance Round Voting progress bars update on user votes.
  • Added a message informing streamers when they select to leave the Twitch Menu without adding a Twitch Character.
  • When no lobbies are found in the Server Menu, Trivia Tricks will now explain that there are no games being hosted.


  • Fixed some typos and cleaned up the wording on a variety of questions. Thanks to all of you who took the time to report these to us directly!
  • Added even more questions across all categories, many suggested by the Discord community! Thank you to everyone who has suggested questions so far!


  • Fixed a bug where some players were seeing blank Workshop questions if pack they were not subscribed to had been updated since they first downloaded it.
  • Fixed an issue where Workshop packs with the "Unlisted" setting would show a red "!" in the Categories Menu despite being playable.
  • Fixed a bug during Chance Round where Twitch Chatters who typed something other than "Y" or "N" would count as having ‘voted’, and therefore would not have their vote counted that round.
  • Fixed a bug where Seasonal events that have multiple pages of missions would briefly load the wrong page before skipping to the desired page.
  • Fixed an issue where a STRANGE MAN would appear when Trivia Tricks failed to load a Workshop pack image's thumbnail on the Categories Menu.

Regular Update #40 - Workshop & Twitch Polish!

Hello Tricksters!

We're hard at work on our upcoming Summer Event, but we’ve been listening to player feedback on some of our more recent features and wanted to deliver some extra polish
that you’d been asking for! Following this update you’ll have faster Workshop downloads and Twitch connections that will be more reliable and responsive!

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Here’s those patch notes in full!

  • Players told us that the Workshop “Download” step could do with some performance and usability improvements, so that’s what we’ve focused development on this week!
  • Previously all players in a lobby had to finish downloading a pack before any players would move onto downloading the next pack, this has been change to allow players to download at their own pace. This should hugely decrease the time before a game starts, especially in lobbies where many Workshop packs are enabled.
  • The "Download taking a while?" message was showing up too soon for players on slow connections downloading large packs, so we’ve extended the time before it appears.
  • Added a "Retry" button which appears at the same time as the "Download taking a while?" message. This allows downloads to be retried without having to return to the lobby and ready up again.
  • Fixed a bug where the ‘verify’ step could take place before downloads were fully complete, causing verification to fail.
  • We’ve added automatic retries when the ‘verifying’ step fails on issues that can be resolved in time, this means verification should be more reliable.
  • The progress bars in the Workshop Download menu are now animated when they increase and decrease instead of suddenly filling. Nifty!
  • Twitch Chat will now attempt to reconnect when connection to Twitch is lost. This may address some problems where Twitch Chat answers would stop being registered by Trivia Tricks mid-game!
  • When playing with Twitch, the timer during Chance Round voting will now use the same timer length as what the host selected for questions instead of defaulting to 25 seconds.
  • The Twitch Chance Round bars now update faster, and have smooth animations when they increase or decrease instead of zipping to the new percentage. Double nifty!
  • Due to a bug discovered just before this patch launched we’ve had to stop Twitch characters throwing bits with donations. We will add this feature back in a future update when we’re able to resolve this issue and we are sorry for the inconvenience!
  • Workshop question packs in the categories menu will now be ordered by subscription date, with recently subscribed packs appearing first.
  • Steam Workshop’s ‘played’ tab will now show Workshop packs you’ve played a game with.
  • We've updated the official Steam Workshop Guide now Workshop packs can be created and updated!

Workshop Full Release! Custom Question Packs For All!

Hello Tricksters!

The big day is here! Workshop support is now available to all players!

  • Create packs easily in any spreadsheet software of your choosing!
  • Share them to the entire world, or just among your friends!
  • Play with created packs, with seamless integration between official and Workshop categories.
We’re delighted to share that, after a 2-week open-beta, we’re enabling Workshop for all players from today! During the beta creators filled the Workshop with an excellent variety of question packs. From historic myths, fandoms and even languages to learn there’s already loads to test your brain matter against!



In addition, we released multiple beta updates to address user feedback and fix reported issues. Some of the feedback we addressed includes...
  • Creators told us that they wanted to share packs privately with their friends, so this option can now be set within Trivia Tricks! Additionally, you can also set packs to be totally “Hidden” or, of course, “Public”!
  • Players told us that unticking every category when they wanted to just enable a few packs was taking too long, so we’ve added a shortcut which turns every enabled category off.
  • Players told us that they wanted to know the ‘size’ of a Workshop category, so the statistics menu now displays the total questions in a pack and has information on the questions answered in each.
Of course, we’re far from done with Workshop! As our beta shows we’re all ears, so let us know what you want to see in future Workshop updates!

Speaking of ‘far from done’...



Workshop marks the end of our original roadmap, but we’re happy to announce we’ve extended our Early Access plans to include an additional feature. We’ll be keeping this one under wraps until it launches, so stay tuned for more information!

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The full patch notes are as follows...

  • Workshop for all!! The Workshop has left open beta and is now available to all players now!
  • We’ve added a "Workshop" section to the Statistics page, allowing users to see how many questions total there are in a Workshop Pack, how many questions have been asked and how many questions have been answered correctly! There’s also a link to the Workshop page of the pack.
  • Workshop questions now count towards the player's total questions, meaning they now count towards several achievements they didn’t before!
  • In the Server Menu, lobbies that are playing with at least one Workshop category will display their categories as "Workshop". Lobbies that are not playing with Workshop will display their categories as "Standard".
  • Added a message to inform players to retry the download if we detect an item download is ‘stuck’. We’re investigating methods of manually retrying failed downloads.


  • In response to player feedback about the time it takes to deselect the standard categories, we’ve added a new button that turns off every category (Including Workshop).
  • The "Friends Only" tick-box in the Create & Update menus has been replaced with a new selector that allows for three options; “Public”, “Friends Only” and “Hidden”.
  • Workshop packs that have already been downloaded to the player's machine will no longer be redownloaded every time they are used, significantly speeding up game start time.
  • It is no longer necessary to choose an image when updating a Workshop item, instead your existing image can be kept.
  • If a Workshop pack can't be played due to its visibility settings making it unavailable to some clients of a lobby it will be moved to the end of the Categories menu and have a red "!" in front of it. It may still be selected, but may give a warning when trying to download for players that can’t see it.
  • If you’re interested in the list of bug fixes that were released during beta, you can find them in the following links!
  • Once again, thank you to all players who partook in the open beta and offered their feedback!


  • Fixed some typos and cleaned up the wording on a variety of questions. Thanks to all of you who took the time to report these to us directly!
  • Added even more questions across all categories, many suggested by the Discord community! Thank you to everyone who has suggested questions so far!


  • Fixed a bug where the player's caret would move to the end of the textbox if they tried to type in the middle of entered text. This fix applies to all textboxes in the game.
  • Fixed the wrong error message being shown when verifying a pack in Workshop Management when "AnswerA" exceeded the character limit. Previously, it was erroneously stating that the "Question" had exceeded the character limit.
  • Fixed a bug where empty Workshop items were being created when the player was prompted to accept the Legal Agreement.
  • Fixed a rare bug where the attempt to verify a Workshop pack would sometimes occur before the download was fully completed, causing verification to fail.
  • Fixed a bug where the question cache would be updated in the middle of question rounds rather than the end.
  • The "Honk" achievement can no longer be obtained when playing with Workshop categories.
  • Fixed Mr Tricks' thinking sound during dialogue ignoring player volume settings. 💭

Workshop Beta Hotfixes Wave 4 (Version 0.9.20.15)

Hello Tricksters! Thanks for all your feedback over the weekend! This hotfix addresses feature improvements that players brought to our attention, alongside a couple of bug fixes! Currently the plan is to end the beta and release Workshop to all players on Thursday!

If you’d like to offer feedback on how we’re running this beta do consider leaving a Steam Review. If there's anything you would like to see changed in a future update, let us know on the Steam Discussion Forum or in Discord!

You can get involved with the Workshop Beta by following this link, unlocking functionality in Trivia Tricks that lets you create, share and play custom questions!

This hotfix to the Workshop Beta addresses the following issues...

[h3]New Features & Fixes[/h3]
  • Resolved a crash that would occur if you joined an in-progress Workshop lobby while having a high latency to Steam. Sorry to all impacted players!
  • If a Workshop pack can't be played due to its visibility settings making it not available to all clients of a lobby it will be moved to the end of the Categories menu and have a red "!" in front of it. It may still be selected, but may give a warning when trying to download.
  • If a Workshop pack fails to download due to the visibility settings of the Workshop pack this will now be stated in the error message upon download fail.
  • Fixed the wrong error message being shown when verifying a pack in Workshop Management when "AnswerA" exceeded the character limit. Previously, it was erroneously stating that the "Question" had exceeded the character limit.
If you’re interested in what our previous beta release fixed, check out our previous patch notes here!

The following “known issues” have been logged and we are actively looking at resolutions before the beta is over. Thanks to all players who took the time to report bugs and help grow this list!

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]
  • We are aware of issues where the Workshop Create/Update will sometimes fail and needs to be retried. We're looking at methods to increase the reliability of these actions.
  • We are aware of an issue where client and host category menu 'allowed' numbers become desynced if the host is subscribed to Workshop packs clients cannot see.
Thanks again for following Trivia Tricks!