We're happy to announce the latest update to Askutron - the Quiz show game - brought a whole bunch of improvements!
Quiz Editor
You can now use the quiz editor to create your own quizzes! Add as many questions as you like. You can even add images to the questions. By default your own quizzes will only be visible to you on your PC.
Steam Workshop
We're working on the Steam Workshop integration and are halfway there. If you enable Steamworks sharing for your quiz in the editor, you can press F6 in the main menu of the game to upload your quiz to the Steam Workshop where other players will be able to see and subscribe to your quiz!
Well, that's the first half of the integration. The second half is the part where you can actually play the quizzes created by other players. This will be released with the next update, so stay tuned! Maybe you can use the waiting time to prepare your very first quiz for the Workshop!
Mode Selection
We just added a rudimentary mode selection. Where before the sequence of game modes was fixed you can now choose which of the modes you actually want to play.
Steam Cloud
User profiles, statistics and quizzes you created are now automatically backed up using the Steam Cloud!
Category Selection
The new and improved category selection now chooses the 4 random options more intelligently, avoiding duplicates and selecting categories based on how many questions they contain relative to the total number of questions in the quiz.
Various Improvements
On top of all this we had several smaller improvements throughout the game.
- Question difficulty is now managed by the game (UI for selecting the difficulty is still in progress)
- 2,500 new English questions added!
- Answers selected on the app are now highlighted more strongly by not only increasing the size of the selected answer, but also decreasing the size of the other options
- The "Ready" screen of the mobile app now also displays the QR code that other people can use to join the game
What's next
We're still working hard on getting the game ready for Early Access. Our next step is publishing the "Coming Soon" page of the game on Steam for which we still need a trailer. Working on that, too...
In the meantime we appreciate the help of our alpha testers to get rid of the remaining bugs!