Trivia Tricks News

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!

Like what we’re doing? Hit the thumbs up below this news post! Have more detailed thoughts? Consider leaving a Steam Review letting us know what you think. Or come chat with us devs in the Official Discord. Thank you for following Trivia Tricks!

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!
  • Wave 1
  • Wave 2
  • Wave 3
  • Wave 4
• 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. 💭
  

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!

Hello Tricksters! Thanks for all your feedback over the week! This hotfix addresses feature improvements that players brought to our attention, alongside a couple of bug fixes!

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]

• The Update menu for updating Workshop items no longer defaults to "Public" visibility. It now defaults to the current visibility of the pack being updated.
  
• It is no longer necessary to choose an image when updating a Workshop item, instead you can keep your existing image!
  
• Fixed a bug where the Workshop question-picking algorithm for selecting never-before-seen questions was not taking into account the questions that clients had seen, and would instead base its decision-making on the host's question history only.
  
• Fixed a bug where, when uploading or updating a Workshop item, file paths containing letters with accents or non-English alphabet characters would cause a "Folder could not be found" error.
  
• Fixed a bug where, when uploading or updating a Workshop item, letters with accents or non-English alphabet characters in the "Title", "Description" and “Update Notes” boxes would become question marks when uploaded.
  
• Fixed a bug where, if a Workshop pack title contained letters with accents or non-English alphabet characters, those letters would be shown as question marks in the Categories menu.
  
• Fixed a bug where, in the Categories menu when using gamepad, pressing left/right at the start/end of the first row of Workshop categories would focus an unexpected item.
  
• Fixed a bug where long Workshop names would be pushed out of UI elements like the Question/Answer UI, TV Screen, Category Screen and Update menus. The text will now resize properly.
  
• In addition, there is now character truncation above 30 characters on the display text for Workshop names in space-restricted areas such as the Categories menu. During gameplay the full name will still be shown!
  
• Fixed a bug where pressing the A button on a gamepad would make a sound when downloading Workshop items in the lobby, despite it not doing anything.
  
• We've noticed that sometimes people forget to remove the "3-Tricks" credit from the Example Workshop Pack when creating their own packs, so a credit of "3-Tricks" will no longer display in-game. We don't want to take credit for something we didn't make!!
  

If you’re interested in what our previous beta releases 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.
  
• We are investigating if it will be possible to give more useful feedback if the host tries to play with a Workshop Pack that not all clients can see.
  

Thanks again for following Trivia Tricks!

Hello Tricksters! Thanks for all your feedback over the weekend, including during Saturday Night Trivia! This hotfix addresses several key areas of improvement that players brought to our attention.

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]

• 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.
  
• In addition, Trivia Tricks has less of a wait between downloading each Workshop file, which will also improve the speed of the download process.
  
• While being asked a question from the Workshop, the UI will display the name of the Workshop category as it is titled on the Workshop rather than the name of the csv file.
  
• Fixed a bug where the Workshop Update Pack “visibility” setting did not work, and was instead using the visibility setting set of the last uploaded Workshop pack.
  
• Potentially mitigated a crash that could be caused by joining multiple lobbies that had been playing with Workshop packs within the same game session.
  
• Fixed a bug where players had to click twice to use the textboxes in the Create & Update menus.
  
• 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 the text. This fix applies to all textboxes in the game.
  
• Fixed Mr Tricks' thinking sound ignoring the players volume settings.
  

[h3]Fixes Resolved In a Previous Beta Release[/h3]

• Fixed an issue where, after subscribing to five or more Workshop Categories, a random Workshop Item would be missing in the categories menu.
  
• Added a validation check so exact copies of the Example Workshop pack cannot be uploaded.
  
• Fixed an issue where Trivia Tricks would save the player's game after a Workshop question was asked, instead of at the end of the round.
  

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 investigating an issue where, if your Workshop Image contains an underscore or accented character, that the Workshop pack will fail to upload with a message that Trivia Tricks “Couldn’t find a folder to upload”.
  
• 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.
  
• We are investigating reports that Workshop questions sometimes repeat between game sessions.
  
• We are investigating if it will be possible to give more useful feedback if the host tries to play with a Workshop Pack that not all clients can see.
  

Thanks again for following Trivia Tricks!

Hello Tricksters! Thanks for all your feedback from these first 24 hours of the Workshop Beta, this hotfix addresses some of issues that have been brought to our attention so far! 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 addresses the following issues...

• Replaced the checkbox to create a 'Hidden' Question Pack to instead mark the Question Pack as 'Friends Only', as 'Hidden' packs can only be played by the individual who uploaded it.
  
  • In a future update we will reintroduce the 'Hidden' option, alongside adding the option to upload your pack as 'Unlisted'.
    
• Fixed an issue where, after subscribing to five or more Workshop Categories, a random Workshop Item would be missing in the categories menu.
  
• Added a validation check so exact copies of the Example Workshop pack cannot be uploaded.
  
• Fixed an issue where Trivia Tricks would save the player's game after a Workshop question was asked, instead of at the end of the round.
  

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!

• We are aware of an issue where client and host category menu 'allowed' numbers become desyned if the host is subscribed to Workshop packs clients cannot see.
  
• We are aware of an issue where the Workshop Create/Update fields will keep shifting the typing caret to the end of the textbox.
  
• We are aware of an issue where the Workshop Create/Update fields must be clicked twice to swap focus between the Title and Description
  
• We are aware of issues where the Workshop Create/Update will sometimes fail and needs to be retried. We're looking at increasing the reliability of these actions.
  

Thank you for all your feedback during this beta so far! If you've noticed a bug in Workshop, or there's anything you would like to see changed in a future update, let us know on the Steam Discussion Forum or in Discord! If you have more detailed thoughts, then please consider leaving a Steam Review letting us know what you think. All feedback is valued, and thank you for following Trivia Tricks!