Trivia Tricks News

Hi everybody!

Below you will find details of our second weekly update. This week we focused on addressing feedback from our player base regarding category customisation and question repetition. Being able to adjust the category presets was our most requested feature and we subsequently made it our highest priority. We hope that following this update you’ll be able to customise Trivia Tricks to suit any player audience!

Additionally, Trivia Tricks now tracks which questions the player has seen to ensure minimal repeats. This system even mixes online players stats together, ensuring the questions are as new as possible for that particular lobby!

Over the next week we’re looking at improving the user interface for adding local players and selecting your character. Stay tuned!

[h3]Category Vetoing![/h3]

• Players can now veto up to 6 categories
  
• Playing with adjusted categories will label the lobby rules and category selection as ‘custom’ in the server browser
  
• The existing category presets have been adjusted to accommodate this change
  
• As more questions are added we will increase the number of categories players can veto proportionally!
  
• The preset categories still have the 25% chance reduction to select the maths category
  
• When categories are set to 'custom' however all categories will have an equal chance of being picked
  

[h3]Improvements to Question Variety![/h3]

• Trivia Tricks will now track the questions a player has seen and how many times they have been seen it
  
• Trivia Tricks then prioritises showing you the questions you have seen the least
  
• In an online game all players seen questions stats will be combined, ensuring everybody is seeing as new content as possible to create a level playing field
  
• The seen questions are saved to the file located at %LOCALAPPDATA%/TriviaTricks/Saved/SaveGames/QuestionCache.sav
• This will be synchronized through Steam Cloud
  
• This file can be deleted without impacting unlocked cosmetics and player stats (However you will see repeated questions!)
  
• Additionally it is no longer possible to get a question from the same category twice in a row
  

[h3]Updates to Question Database[/h3]

• Heavily expanded the ‘History’ category to feature more questions on Eastern European history, ancient civilisations and the space race!
  
• Additional questions in the 'Anime' and 'Geography' categories
  
• Fixed a number of typos in our questions (Thank you to all players who reported these!)
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed bug where using Q and E on the keyboard would skip over menu options in the Character Creator and Statistics Page if the player had interacted with the Character Select Screen within that session
  

Please let us know what you think on our Steam Discussion Forum or join our ever-growing Discord! Thank you for following Trivia Tricks!

Hi everybody,

We hope you're all enjoying Trivia Tricks so far! Below you will find details of our first weekly update. This week we focused on addressing feedback from our player base about some of the rougher patches in our user experience. We collected this feedback both from direct engagement with fans and observing play session footage. We hope that following this update Trivia Tricks will feel a much more polished experience!

Next weeks update will focus on improvements to Trivia Tricks’ questions, such as giving players better control of category selections and ensuring larger variety to the questions the game selects. Stay tuned!

[h3]Cosmetics[/h3]

• Added four new hats and two new shirt cosmetics to make your Trickster prettier than ever. Now available in the store!
  
• Were you jealous of Count Tricks cape? Don’t be! It's now permanently free for all players!
  

[h3]General Usability Improvements[/h3]

• Added a dialog message for clients when the host closes a game
  
• Servers will now accurately report player numbers when players join and leave the server
  
• FXAA x2 is now the default over FXAA x4
  

[h3]Chat Experience Improvements[/h3]

• Fixed a bug where players would have to click their answer twice after typing into the chat (Keyboard and controller input were unaffected by this issue)
  
• Moved the question credit to the top right of the screen so it no longer covers chat
  
• Added a 200 character word limit to the chatbox
  
• Removed the right-click context menu from text entry boxes
  

[h3]Updates to question database[/h3]

• Where appropriate, questions from the Halloween category have been migrated into suitable categories and reworded
  
• Expanded the ‘Food & Drink’ category to include questions about some ‘exotic’ tastes
  
• Fixed a number of maths number sequence questions having incorrect answers
  
• Removed yet more maths questions that had extremely easy answers
  
• Based on player feedback, maths questions are now 25% less likely than other categories
  
• Fixed a number of typos in our questions (Thank you to all players who reported these!)
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed bug where Tricksters had a chance of floating over their podiums if you weren't playing with 4 or 8 Tricksters
  
• Fix bug where Character Select Screen would display visual glitches if the player had selected 2x FXAA in the options menu
  
• Upon failing to join a server players will now be directed back to the online character select screen instead of the offline character select screen
  
• Fixed controllers being able to open the ‘Invite Friends’ menu mid-game
  
• Fixed the ball machine textures being blurry on low-end machines
  
• Fixed the 'Failed To Join' dialog being difficult to dismiss with mouse
  
• Fixed the Character Select Screen accepting input during screen transitions
  
• Fixed the Character Select Screen accepting input during error dialogs
  
• Replaced the sound effect when trying to select an already-selected character from an embarrassing placeholder of myself making childish sounds to... something more sensible...
  
• The 'buy' sound in the store is now a more satisfying volume (Cha-ching!)
  

[h3]Halloween event is over! Thank you for your feedback during this time![/h3]

• The Halloween category has been removed
  
• The Halloween items have been removed from the shop for players that did not buy them. Feel you missed out? Don't worry! There's always next year!
  
• The stage has been reverted to a pre-Halloween state
  
• Players will no longer earn candy after a game
  

Please let us know what you think on our Steam Discussion Forum or on our Discord! Thank you for following Trivia Tricks!

• Fixed an issue where non-hosts were unable to use the mouse to answer questions while the chatbox was visible.
  - We are investigating other circumstances in which mouse selection will not register. In these cases we advise using the arrow or WASD keys on your keyboard. We’re sorry for these issues and are aiming to resolve them as soon as possible!
  
  
• Chatbox text has been updated to indicate the 'Y' key is used to open chat
  
• Updated the Question Database, fixing typos (Thank you to all players who reported these!)
  
• Increment in-game version number
  

Please let us know what you think on our Steam Discussion Forum or on our Discord! Thank you for following Trivia Tricks!

Hey everyone, it's me Mr. Tricks!

Trivia Tricks is getting in the spooky spirit for Halloween!
Play any game of Trivia and earn candy to unlock special limited time cosmetics. I've got my own costume already picked out!

We also have a new Halloween category filled with terrifying questions on all things scary and supernatural!

The event will be available to play until November 5th so collect as much candy as you can!

See you on stage!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1404090/Trivia_Tricks/

The backstage crew has been hard at work responding to all your feedback so far! If you're interested in the details the full patch notes are below!

[h3]Trivia Tricks Version 0.8.1.0[/h3]
[h3]Truly Terrifying Trivia![/h3]

• New Halloween Event
  - Added new 'Halloween' Category, featuring 175 questions!
  - Added new 'Halloween' Cosmetics, purchased with candy!]
  - New spooky look for the stage and Mr. Tricks!
  - Candy is rewarded at the end of a Trivia game
  - Cosmetics are available to purchase until 5th November
  - Players will keep purchased cosmetics after the event is over
  
  
• Added new, free forever, eyelashes cosmetic!
  
  
• Question Database Updates
  - Added additional questions to 'Animal', 'Science', 'Sports' and 'Video Game' categories
  - Removed some maths questions that had extremely easy answers
  - Fixed some question typos (Thank you to all of you for reporting these!)
  
  
• General improvements to the text chat experience
  - Chat window will now automatically scroll to the bottom when messages over two lines are sent
  - Chat window will now display for 10 seconds instead of 5 seconds after a message is sent
  
  
• Fixed the ‘SELL! SELL! SELL!’ achievement not unlocking
  - This will automatically unlock on startup for any players who already met this condition
  
  
• All keyboard, mouse and controller inputs will now control the character if there is a single player on that system. We believe this will resolve reported issues of controller input not registering.
  
• Added a dialogue window to inform players when they fail to join a game
  
• Fixed a launch crash when Trivia Tricks was loaded in exclusive fullscreen while not being the focused window
  
• Fixed controller users being able to join games before the server search had completed
  
• Fixed a bug where unpausing the game while the ‘Are you sure you want to quit?’ dialog was shown would keep that dialog open
  
• Fixed the credits button and social media links not always registering input
  
• Fixed a typo in the statistics menu
  

Please let us know what you think on our Steam Discussion Forum or on our Discord! Thank you for following Trivia Tricks!

Trivia Tricks is available now!

We hope everyone has a fun time playing our trivia quiz with their friends or anyone from around the world. This is just the beginning! You can look forward to a number of updates detailed in our Early-Access Roadmap as well as changes from community feedback.

In fact a spooky update is creeping juuuust around the corner... Keep hold of those candies!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1404090/Trivia_Tricks