Etermax has been making video games since 2009 and it rating an enormous hit with Trivia Crack in 2013. The sport has had had greater than 800 million downloads to this point, however Etermax has been discovering new markets for it nonetheless.
On November 28, Etermax launched Trivia Crack World on Meta Quest as a brand new digital actuality sport that transports gamers to an immersive and interactive amusement park, mixing data, enjoyable, and world connections throughout VR headsets, desktops, and cellular units. Now the corporate can be increasing the world with new updates for the sport, which has a 4.9 star ranking out of 5.
Trivia Crack World is the first-ever immersive trivia sport on Meta Quest, providing a dynamic and interesting expertise for informal players, trivia fans, and households alike. Set in a vibrant, knowledge-themed amusement park, gamers can work together with Trivia Crack’s beloved characters in real-time. Every character like Willy the Wheel has its personal subject-themed island. Willy the Wheel additionally serves because the grand host of the park, which is opening its doorways with Hector’s Museum, Albert’s lab and Tito’s Safari.
The goal for Trivia Crack World is to current a refreshing different to typical VR titles, stated Federico Segovia, head of product at Etermax in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in an interview with GamesBeat.
“We didn’t simply translate the cellular model. The benefit of VR is which you can create an immersive world the place individuals can meet in actual time. You’ll be able to customise the expertise, select your language, and choose the problem of the questions,” Segovia stated.
The event of Trivia Crack World was carried out by Etermax, 100% in-house, from the sport itself to the soundtrack, Segovia stated. Whereas Etermax has greater than 300 individuals, the VR sport concerned a workforce of greater than 20 individuals, together with designers, programmers, and others.
The prolonged workers workforce at Etermax additionally supported the challenge all through the event of the launch plan, which incorporates an built-in technique of promotion and enterprise. Moreover, the assist from the Meta workforce of their promotional channels performed a vital position.
Trivia Crack World goals to convey the enjoyable of a trivia evening out with family and friends to your front room. Gamers aged 13 and older can compete in numerous trivia challenges and discover trending matters in a number of languages whereas interacting with a world, on-line neighborhood.
Adapting to VR
Segovia, who has been at Etermax since 2016 as a sport designer and now head of product, labored on the challenge for the previous 12 months. The corporate assembled a workforce that was acquainted with household play, informal video games cellular play, VR know-how and all kinds of audiences.
“It was thrilling to me as I’ve been a Vr participant on the Meta Quest,” Segovia stated. “We needed to convey trivia to its subsequent degree. It’s an adaptation of the cellular model of trivia crack, however every thing was redesigned. The interplay is in actual time and so the social facet of the sport is highly effective.”
Whereas VR is usually a solitary type of leisure, trivia is inherently extra social. So it made sense to create a multiplayer model of the trivia sport along with a solo play model.
“The motive force of the primary sport is the open match, the place individuals who don’t know one another can collect and play,” Segovia stated.
The VR model additionally contains user-generated questions, very like with the cellular model, the place gamers can create extra native content material related for their very own metropolis or nation.
“Throughout the event of the sport, we labored rather a lot with the core neighborhood to get suggestions, like constructing an attraction for the out of doors membership,” Segovia stated. “We needed to make the sport stand out from the competitors within the retailer.
“We’ve all the time favored challenges,” Segovia stated. “We have been pioneers with our trivia sport and we made it into the perfect within the cellular shops. Now with VR, the market began to get attention-grabbing about three years in the past,” Segovia stated. “We deicded VR can be essential for for shoppers sooner or later. So we make this primary step to maneuver into it.”
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Trivia Remixed: Tackle challenges, clear up puzzles, and extra
Trivia Crack World merges the enduring Trivia Crack model, which is understood in 180 nations and 34 languages, with Meta Quest’s VR know-how.
Gamers go on a trivia journey and never solely reply questions but in addition clear up puzzles, work together with digital objects, and deal with challenges that mix cognitive and bodily abilities. Minigames embrace fishing for solutions, drawing precisely, hitting targets, and navigating mazes—including distinctive twists to the previous trivia format.
Trivia Crack World connects gamers worldwide and gives a multilingual expertise supported by Trivia Crack’s Query Manufacturing unit, which boasts over 50 million user-generated trivia questions. Localized content material ensures gamers encounter recent, related questions primarily based on their geographical location.
Trivia Crack World lets gamers have interaction in trivia with others with two multiplayer modes. Gamers can compete with trivia followers globally, answering inquiries to climb leaderboards, earn trophies, and entry unique rewards in a aggressive atmosphere.
Gamers also can play solo, the place you take a look at your data and practice your trivia abilities in your individual time. And you’ll have interaction in non-public matches, the place customers can create customized video games, share codes, and luxuriate in a pleasant trivia showdown irrespective of the gap.
Trivia Crack World is on the market on Meta Quest in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German, it will also be performed on Android, iOS, and Home windows units.
Increasing the amusement park with new updates
The beloved Trivia Crack franchise has now added new themed points of interest and a brand new area the place gamers can spark their curiosity and luxuriate in thrilling challenges hosted by the sport’s characters.
Arriving simply in time for Christmas, gamers will be capable of discover two new immersive points of interest: Tito’s Safari and Albert’s Lab, and an enhanced expertise in Hector’s Museum. Every journey challenges gamers with interactive quests hosted by the sport’s iconic characters.
Albert’s Lab: Gamers could have the chance to go to Albert’s bastion of science and face off his robotic in an epic sport of charades. The problem? Remedy the thriller with the fewest inquiries to be topped the winner.
Tito’s Safari: Invitations gamers to a scavenger hunt in a collection of islands in quest of superb animals. Customers should spot and study every species with those that efficiently seize images of all of the safari’s creatures receiving a bundle of tickets to spend on the store.
Hector’s Island: The Museum of Hector is the primary attraction to obtain a devoted island area. This new zone is full of historic objects for gamers to work together with and discover, in addition to a spot to satisfy different gamers earlier than getting into the primary exploration maze of the museum. That is only the start—quickly, all points of interest will function their very own devoted island zones.
Gamers of all ages can discover knowledge-based adventures like scavenger hunts, epic charades, and historic challenges in a completely immersive digital amusement park. The sport is on the market on the Meta Horizon Retailer for $10.
