Triviosity – the blog.

I’m calling on you, the great users, to let us know how to make this game better.

Leave your comments below with what you want, need, or expect to see in the game. If you like what someone else has said, reply to their comment so we know it’s also important to you. Nothing is too far fetched. All suggestions will be vetted and ranked and eventually implemented into the game as time permits.

Happy Triviosity!

Now that I’m back from my little vacation, it’s time to add some more features. Within the next week or so I’ll be adding “Groups” – This will be a basic set of features that allow you to create groups of people to allow you to check scores of your friends and people you know. You will be able to create your own groups and add people to your own groups. You will also be able to join groups that are marked as ‘public.’ If you are a Facebook user, you will automatically have a group of your friends who play Triviosity.

I’ll also be updating the stats and graphs a little bit more.

If you have any ideas or requests for things you’d like to see in the game, let us know!

Keep playing, and keep sharing.
Happy Triviosity!

Due to the fact that I’m touring around Scotland and Wales, special challenges are delayed a bit. I’ll try to get one up this week and return to the regular schedule when I return after the 24th.

Cheers,
Darryl

This week’s updates include a few minor bug fixes (things that you probably never noticed, so I’m not going to list them.)

But it also includes the beginning of a few newer features. First off, linking to your twitter account. If you’re like me and you’re always posting your score to twitter, you can now link your account and set Triviosity to automatically post your score when you finish a game. You can set this up by going to your settings (you’ll see a link in the top right when you’re logged in.)

Tweets from the game also show up as coming from Triviosity now, so that makes it awesome.

The settings page also has an option for sending emails. Although I’m not sending any notices out yet for new challenges, if you’d like to be “on the list” check those little boxes. This is completely, 100% opt-in only. Nobody will ever be automatically opted in to receive daily emails.

If you like stats, 187 users are registered (I’d like that to be about 187,000) with over 18,000 questions answered.
And that’s about it.

After some fine reporting by a few great users, I think I’ve managed to work out most of the IE7 related display bugs (Facebook framing, missing buttons on the score pages and the graphs not showing up). If you experience anything strange, please let me know – comments or use the contact form.

Here are some of the other things that have been updated or added:

• Facebook ‘bookmark’ – see the bottom of the page to add a bookmark to Facebook.
• Facebook ‘invites’ – at the bottom, you can now invite your friends via Facebook directly. I’d really love it if you used this to tell all your friends ;)
• The blog goes mobile – I’ve setup a nice little mobile theme so if you’re viewing the blog on a portable device, it should be much easier to use.
• Pretty Graphs – if you haven’t noticed, there are some graphs on the right hand side of the score pages. More interesting stats will come with time, but if you have any suggestions of what you’d like to see, please use the contact form.

I think that covers the new-ish items. Tomorrow, there will be a new special challenge: “The Great Pop Lyric Challenge #3 (Pre 1990′s)” – In the future new challenges covering many interesting things such as languages, beer, sports, geography, death and Shakespeare.

Keep on playing, sharing and having fun!
Happy Triviosity.