QuizUp
2013
- quiz/trivia
- card & board game
- educational
- multiplayer
- massively multiplayer online (mmo)
The story
QuizUp is a mobile game developed by Iceland-based Plain Vanilla Games. The game is a mobile trivia app similar to the game Trivial Pursuit. QuizUp is a single-player game in which one user competes against another during seven rounds of timed multiple-choice questions of various topics. There are over 680 total categories of topics available to users to choose from and all the questions are voluntarily submitted by content contributors. Most categories are available in different languages.
What it’s like
Bright, flat interface colours and clean sans-serif type make QuizUp feel like a tidy phone screen in daylight, with bold category tiles and quick, snappy transitions between questions. The sound is light and bouncy: short chimes for right answers, a soft buzz for wrong ones, and a brief countdown tick that tightens the pace. It suits a commute, a lunch break, or a few minutes waiting in line, and it works well as a casual back-and-forth with a friend or a stranger across a seven-round match. The rhythm is brisk and competitive but never tense for long, since each round resolves in seconds and the mood stays playful and social. Intensity is essentially nil: no violence, no gore, no frightening content, only the gentle sting of a missed answer. It is for people who enjoy testing themselves on trivia, like a mental warm-up, and who want a low-stakes contest that can be picked up and dropped at any moment.
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