The Jackbox Party Pack 11 News

[p]Imagine a world of humble knights, roguish rogues, and valiant heroes… Now imagine them at your local trivia night… That’s Legends of Trivia![/p][p]Jackbox’s next trivia game is cooperative and inspired by RPGs. And like the trivia-defeating team you’ll find in the game, we had an amazing team come together to work on the project. Read below to learn more about what went into making Legends of Trivia.[/p][p] [/p][p]Please introduce yourself and your role on Legends of Trivia.[/p][p]Hi! I’m Nate Sandberg, the Audio Lead and one of the people who make the original concept pitch for Legends of Trivia! - Nate

Hi! I’m C.J. Tuor, the Editorial Lead and one of the people who created the original concept and pitch for Legends of Trivia - Nate[/p][p]Hi! I’m Warren Arnold, the Director for Legends of Trivia.[/p][p] [/p][p]How did you come up with the idea for Legends of Trivia?[/p][p]I play a lot of tabletop RPG’s with friends, and I’m sometimes a little frustrated with the randomness of dice. Like I’m a legendary Yuan-Ti Sorcerer and I just entirely miss with my firebolt because I rolled a 2?! Ridiculous. So I always thought that a skill based test for success would be fun to try. That’s when I came up with the idea of using trivia questions instead of dice! Turns out Hector had already thought of this idea and pitched it at Jackbox years before haha! So I worked with him and a bunch of other team members to put together the final pitch version of this game. - Nate[/p][p] [/p][p]Do you have any fun stories from making Legends of Trivia?[/p][p]The first appearance of the Ogre in a company play test was really great. Up to that point, players faced the same monster design over and over as we uploaded new assets and refined the mechanics. There was such glee when he came riding in and asked his questions in his unique Ogre tone. - Warren[/p][p] [/p][p]What makes the Legends of Trivia dev team so special?[/p][p]Everybody on the team was dedicated to making this game as special as possible. Everyone had such great ideas for bringing this world to life. The dev team did a great job of taking all of those ideas and making them work with the confines of a trivia game. - Warren[/p][p] [/p][p]What was one challenge you had to overcome during production?[/p][p]The biggest hurdle was the overall balance of the game. We were merging answering trivia and fighting monsters and those two concepts can sometimes butt heads. What we tried to focus on were trivia types that required everybody to work together but also didn’t outstay their welcome. - Warren[/p][p] [/p][p]What were you inspired by while designing the look and music for Legends of Trivia?[/p][p]I always try to mash together a few different inspirations when I’m working on new music for a game. For LoT, I listened to the soundtrack from the original Final Fantasy for NES. It’s amazing. I also listened to the music from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. This was a great reference for the bard songs as well a big orchestral fantasy sound. And I listened to a lot of Medieval and Georgian Polyphony. I find this kind of music so beautiful and I definitely wanted to reference it in this game. - Nate[/p][p] [/p][p]What is your favorite part of Legends of Trivia?[/p][p]The ending. We knew what we wanted to do very early in production and I think it turned out great. I can’t share footage because that would spoil the fun! - Warren
 [/p][p]Any fun glitches or unexpected gameplay moments that happened during production and testing?[/p][p]Image trivia started out as the way you revived yourself from death. Players hated it… but I really liked the mechanic. It felt like you entered another game and most players just wanted to get back in. So, we made an Image Trivia category and found that it worked immediately. - Warren[/p][p] [/p][p]What has been your favorite memory of making Legends of Trivia?[/p][p]I had a great time at our recording sessions with Austin Packard \[who plays the host in Legends of Trivia]. He not only did an amazing job with the voice over for the game, but he also had to sing a bunch of songs! And the music I wrote is pretty tricky in spots, but he absolutely nailed it! - Nate[/p][p]My wife had a baby during development and if you buy the game, we’ll be able to feed her! -C.J. [/p][p]Honestly, the last part of production because the full vision came together. It was so cool to watch people play and enjoy something that had been in our heads and hearts for months - Warren[/p][p] [/p][p]Legends of Trivia is a part of The Jackbox Party Pack 11[/p]

[p]Hello London! Jackbox Games developers will be playing the newly released Party Pack 11. [/p][p]Find them at booth N640 (between N2 and N3) to play games, win prizes, and pick up some free stickers. [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p][/p]

[p]Play Now[/p][p]Say, have you heard? Hear Say is here! [/p][p][/p][p]We’re all done baking up Cookie Haus after a year in the oven!

Your suspicions  about our new social deduction game Suspectives coming out soon were correct - it’s here now! 
[/p][p]And if you’ve been ruminating on ways to ruin perfectly nice things, Doominate is here to fill that void. [/p][p][/p][p]The legends have come to pass: Legends of Trivia is real and it’s ready to escort you and your friends on your trivia travels.[/p][p][/p][p]We’re also introducing the Big Bang Bundle: a combo of games that includes Survey Scramble and The Jackbox Party Pack 11 in one convenient constellation to keep the party going even longer![/p][p]
[/p][p]Here’s what’s included in The Jackbox Party Pack 11:[/p][p]
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• [p]Doominate (Writing): Take a perfectly lovely situation and destroy it in this head-to-head joke game where it feels so good to be so bad. Doominate supports 3-8 players.[/p]
• [p]Hear Say (Sound Effects): Record sound effects and dialogue directly from your phone in a foley-inspired game where laughter is the soundtrack. Then, watch your voices come to life in a series of short movie clips! Hear Say supports 2-8 players. [/p]
• [p]Cookie Haus (Drawing): Play our coziest and kookiest drawing game yet by fulfilling cookie design orders for unusual clientele. Don’t play on an empty stomach! Cookie Haus supports 3-8 players.[/p]
• [p]Suspectives (Social Deduction): There’s been a crime, one player secretly did it, and the evidence comes from your own survey answers! Study the clues, defend your innocence (even if you’re lying), and put your friends on trial. Suspectives supports 4-8 players.[/p]
• [p]Legends of Trivia (Trivia): Assemble your team and put your trivia knowledge to the test in a fantastical world full of danger! Trivia! Teamwork! Monsters! Do you dare? Legends of Trivia supports 1-6 players.[/p]

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You can find these games as part of The Jackbox Party Pack 11 now on all major platforms including Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation. Also available on Apple TV & iPad, Amazon Luna, and most major Steam key sellers.[/p]

After taking a slight detour last year for a (deliberately) dirty-minded pack, Jackbox has returned to its usual form with The Jackbox Party Pack 11, and once again proves that sometimes you don’t need to think outside the box.

Now an annual tradition, the latest crop features five original new games, mostly across the usual cross-section of “genres.” If this is your first time hearing of the series, this multiplayer game is actually a motley group of party games played on the participants’ smartphones or tablets, where they cast votes, doodle, and so on, and see the outcome of their inputs resolved on the main screen.

This fundamental premise hasn’t changed much over the years, aside from this year’s addition of a minigame that utilizes your device’s microphone. Luckily, the new games offered are refreshingly different in theme, which is nice to see from a series that can recycle its best elements a smidge too often.

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