Hey everybody!
This update closes off our first milestone: creating a Co-Op Trivia game mode! Since its introduction during our Holiday Event, playing co-operatively and sharing trivia knowledge amongst friends has been our most popular addition! This update adds three additional challengers with specialized knowledge to take on. To celebrate this milestone Trivia Tricks is on sale for 10% off! This is the perfect time to see just how smart your friends really are!
- Three new bosses have been added! Each one has their own limited set of categories they play with.
- Nigel - A world traveler and explorer who specializes in: Animals, Geography, Language and Food & Drink.
- Robin - A consumer of media who specializes in: Art & Literature, Film & TV, Music and Video Games.
- Ganymede - A scientist and all-around intellectual who specializes in: Animals, History, Mathematics and Science & Technology.
- Each new boss comes with their own achievement for beating them in a Co-Op game and a unique unlockable cosmetic!
- The other cosmetics worn by the bosses are available in the Character Creator.
- Added 100 additional questions, including many suggested by our Discord community! Thank you to everyone who has suggested questions so far!
- 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!
- Bosses are now much more expressive with their emotes during dialogue.
- A community-requested red color alternative for the Cowboy Hat has been added.
- A new Splash Screen appears on boot when the game is launched.
- Improved the responsiveness of menus for mouse control.
- A new secret code for the community to discover!
- Exclusive Fullscreen has been added back as an option in the Settings Menu.
- Try using Exclusive Fullscreen with Remote Play and lowering the resolution to improve Remote Play performance!
- Fixed a bug where using the mouse to select an answer would not register if the mouse was moved while pressing left mouse.
- Fixed a bug where characters would sometimes not appear on the Main Menu sofa.
- Fixed a bug where pressing Escape to close the chat would require the player to click the game again before 'Y' would reopen the chat.
- Fixed a bug where "Borderless Fullscreen" would not appear in the Resolution section of the Settings Menu if the "Borderless" option had been set in a previous game session.
- Fixed a bug where the room code did not show on the Pause Menu if the game was paused as the lobby was opened.
- Fixed a bug where King would smile when he lost.
- Fixed Mr Tricks expressing the wrong emotion in certain lines.
- Fixed a bug where answers were not being sent if clients selected them too quickly.
Not checked out Trivia Tricks since we launched? Here are the headlining features of the last seven months of development!
- Five permanent bosses, each with unique challenges.
- Bosses have their own animations and dialogue.
- Communication improvements showing team members' selected answers.
- New TV leaderboard breaking down individual team member scores.
- Boss AI redesign for more consistent performance.
- Customizable category selection.
- Ability to join games that are in progress.
- Questions that have been seen before are filtered out of future games to ensure minimal repeats.
- Options to allow players to adjust answering time, chance round odds, and changeable & visible answer selections.
- Weekly community events with Trivia Tuesday.
- Secret codes and community ARG hunts.
- DRM-free game.
- Steam Remote Play support, enabling phones as controllers.
- Streamlined Controller Connect and Character Select Menu.
- Redesigned the Host Menu to support new options.
- Added a Tab Menu to keep track of the leaderboard mid-game.
- Room codes, enabling inviting people without needing them on your Steam Friends List.
- Over 1,000 brand new hand-written questions added, including suggestions from our community.
- 57 new wearable cosmetics.
- 10 additional achievements.
- Two seasonal events.
- Our next milestone will introduce Twitch Integration to allow streamers to play with their Twitch communities through Twitch Chat.
- We hope to look into allowing more character customization by separating certain cosmetics into an accessory slot as well as creating new additions.
- Although we are moving on from Co-op Vs Boss Mode for now we will return with additional improvements and new bosses in the future!
- Yet more seasonal events with unique rewards are on the way!
- And of course, more achievements, more cosmetics and more questions!
Please let us know what you think on our Steam Discussion Forum or join our ever-growing Discord. Thank you for following Trivia Tricks!