Etermax has been making video games since 2009 and it rating a giant hit with Trivia Crack in 2013. The sport has had had greater than 800 million downloads so far, 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 information, enjoyable, and international connections throughout VR headsets, desktops, and cellular units. Now the corporate can also be increasing the world with new updates for the sport, which has a 4.9 star score out of 5.
Trivia Crack World is the first-ever immersive trivia sport on Meta Quest, providing a dynamic and interesting expertise for informal avid gamers, 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 purpose for Trivia Crack World is to current a refreshing various to typical VR titles, mentioned 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 you can create an immersive world the place individuals can meet in actual time. You may customise the expertise, select your language, and choose the issue of the questions,” Segovia mentioned.
The event of Trivia Crack World was carried out by Etermax, 100% in-house, from the sport itself to the soundtrack, Segovia mentioned. 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 employees 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 help from the Meta workforce of their promotional channels performed an important function.
Trivia Crack World goals to carry the enjoyable of a trivia night time out with family and friends to your lounge. Gamers aged 13 and older can compete in varied trivia challenges and discover trending matters in a number of languages whereas interacting with a world, on-line group.
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 yr. The corporate assembled a workforce that was conversant in household play, informal video games cellular play, VR expertise and all kinds of audiences.
“It was thrilling to me as I’ve been a Vr participant on the Meta Quest,” Segovia mentioned. “We needed to carry trivia to its subsequent stage. It’s an adaptation of the cellular model of trivia crack, however every part was redesigned. The interplay is in actual time and so the social side of the sport is highly effective.”
Whereas VR is commonly 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 driving force of the primary sport is the open match, the place individuals who don’t know one another can collect and play,” Segovia mentioned.
The VR model additionally consists of 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 so much with the core group to get suggestions, like constructing an attraction for the out of doors membership,” Segovia mentioned. “We needed to make the sport stand out from the competitors within the retailer.
“We’ve all the time favored challenges,” Segovia mentioned. “We had been pioneers with our trivia sport and we made it into the very best within the cellular shops. Now with VR, the market began to get fascinating about three years in the past,” Segovia mentioned. “We deicded VR could be crucial for for shoppers sooner or later. So we make this primary step to maneuver into it.”
Whereas many individuals suppose that VR {hardware} is simply enticing to hardcore avid gamers, there are numerous informal video games on the high of the VR shops. The content material consists of informal, midcore and hardcore video games. Whereas the market remains to be early, VR video games have gotten profitable sufficient to help plenty of mid-size sport studios like Schell Video games and Decision Video games.
Trivia Remixed: Tackle challenges, resolve puzzles, and extra
Trivia Crack World merges the enduring Trivia Crack model, which is understood in 180 international locations and 34 languages, with Meta Quest’s VR expertise.
Gamers go on a trivia journey and never solely reply questions but additionally resolve puzzles, work together with digital objects, and sort out challenges that mix cognitive and bodily expertise. Minigames embrace fishing for solutions, drawing precisely, hitting targets, and navigating mazes—including distinctive twists to the outdated 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 contemporary, related questions primarily based on their geographical location.
Trivia Crack World lets gamers interact 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 setting.
Gamers may play solo, the place you check your information and prepare your trivia expertise in your individual time. And you’ll interact in personal matches, the place customers can create customized video games, share codes, and luxuriate in a pleasant trivia showdown irrespective of the space.
Trivia Crack World is out there 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 sights 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 sights: 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 may have the chance to go to Albert’s bastion of science and face off his robotic in an epic sport of charades. The problem? Resolve 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 wonderful animals. Customers should spot and study every species with those that efficiently seize pictures 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 fulfill different gamers earlier than coming into the primary exploration maze of the museum. That is only the start—quickly, all sights will characteristic 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 out there on the Meta Horizon Retailer for $10.
