somehow this game is getting over 100 views a day? And a lot of leaderboard submissions?? This is not a 'flex' or whatever - I'm genuinely perplexed by the fact this game has a rating that went from 3.5, to 3.75, and is now sitting at 3.8... I would assume people are in the joke that this is a 'joke' game from May, but then you see this:

This doesn't include the guy with 99 hours. I really hope these people forgot the game was in a forgotten tab on mute... I could not imagine listening to that background music looping for more than 30 seconds...

Do you REALLY want these rubbing games so badly? I have access to another HTML game that would even be better to Frankenstein than the trivial trivia game, so do you really want that?? I originally had planned to make an idle/incremental game that would be incredibly unique, with a story and everything, but if 4 hours of my time resulted in this much investment by this many people... should I toss out something quick and easy instead?

If I see this game still doing well next month and moving up in the score, you're getting something like Tankman Rubber 2024...

I hear your messages loud and clear, you want another rubbing game, I think. There's way too many good reviews on Pico Rubber for me to think otherwise at least. Well you'll have to wait until probably July at the earliest. Got some heavy lifting to do on a funner project beforehand.

I've got some ideas to put a spin on the usual incremental type of game, so we'll see what's possible. Also deciding on whether I want to crack open Adobe Flash to make a game or Frankenstein Kabobble's trivia framework like I did for ol Pico.

I'm tired of batteries and electricity in my rubbing games, so it'll be a fresh subject too.

Question will really end up being - will it be a good game or a joke game to satisfy the apparent need for this kind of game?

More questions will be added onto the NG Trivial Trivia game! I'm motivated enough to scour the dankest parts of the site to gather enough questions for at least 50 per pack. The main NG one will get at least 10 new questions too. Thanks to @MicroBihon for tossing some ideas our way about submissions and content we missed. Turns out, when something gets banned from Newgrounds it's hard to find! Also thanks (not really though) to Fox News for covering the 'controversial' highlights over the years.

Expect to see one "final" update to the game this Friday adding these questions + the supporter preview already out now. There's been maybe 2-3 final updates last week but this one will really kinda be the final one unless new NG Wiki content is added OR BBS becomes easier to search. I appreciate all the history and public info available on the site, but wow it can be hard to find info sometimes (.

Sidebar:

Been making some music over the last week for a project in the pipeline that probably won't see the light of day (motivation issue). Also tossed some soundpools together to make some noise for another Kabobble project that'll be scheduled for next month, so if you like what I can toss together musically, you're in luck.

Gonna make this a quick post. For a big long one check out Kabobble's here: https://kabobble.newgrounds.com/news/post/1450301

Anyways, here's the update:

• Supporters can check out the preview page of the gam here: https://www.newgrounds.com/projects/games/5683265/preview
• About 85 new questions added across packs.
• This preview will be locked down and available for users with supporter status until June 14ish. Not sure when we'll publish the update to everyone that day but it'll be at some point.
• Non-supporters: bookmark that game and re-visit it in a week!
• Don't worry about breaking your save if you play the preview or public version - the game got more relaxed dealing with saves and expected values. This may mean there's a bug or two in there somewhere, so leave a hatemail or something if you get stuck.

Now I know what you're thinking. Did they really only add one question to some packs??!? and the answer is yes. I got annoyed looking at those question review screens with a single question button at the bottom, so I gave it a friend. Even numbers are cooler than odd numbers.

Also, there's a good chunk of knowledge in these packs! We could make some stuff up to pad them out, but imo what you see now is the best we got. The reason the Newgrounds and Newgrounds Event packs got so many questions is because I only just discovered the Flash Portal section of the wiki. Turns out it has some GREAT info and trivia bait. Not sure how I missed that before.....

anyway, check out the preview update here https://www.newgrounds.com/projects/games/5683265/preview

During my lunch break today I was browsing through the Newgrounds Wiki for really no good reason, and I stumbled upon something that made me think.

https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/about-newgrounds/history#wiki_toc_21

From skimming the wiki in months prior I can't say I remember Mr. Tom wanting to have exclusive releases for supporters. Doing a quick CTRL + F also shows this is the only mention of a game sponsorship.

This got me thinking - I have a game that's out recently that is pretty damn Newgrounds specific. Do non-supports like it? Probably. Do NG supports like it? probably a little more. It is NG trivia with a lot of namedrops after all! It's also gotten a lot of eyes on it thanks to Newgrounds front page and the great scores it's received.

So how can I respond to this small mention of something in a super long wiki? I'll toss more effort into my game and release an update exclusive to supports for awhile! The game has been a passion project out of nowhere for the last few months anyway, what's another week of scoping out more questions anyway?

Yep, for you trivia nerds out there you're getting an update! There's no specifics whatsoever but I'd like to at least add 15-20 trivia questions to each pack as a final update. It would make me happy to see the game have a total of over 500 questions (currently at 415 I think) so that'll be the goal.

What will this exclusivity look like? no clue. We'll toss the preview page to supporters-only and put the update there for a week maybe? If more forethought went into the release of the game we could've done something like this for the initial release, but oh well. And the next game in the series would be borderline abusive to release to supporters only (It's looking to be another collection with that really bad TT: Impossible game remastered as a pack) so I don't want to do that.

Anyways, enough about that, time to get back to the day! I'll toss another post up going into more detail if/when there's more detail.

Well good news for you! The latest Trivial Trivia game has dropped this morning, and it's already been frontpaged (thanks Tom)! Check out the awesome trivia in Trivial Trivia: The Newgrounds Collection. Thanks to everyone who has already viewed, commented, and rated the game as well!

Play through trivia on your favorite Newgrounds submissions and topics. In case your favorite isn't here, play though your second favorite, or find a new favorite!

It's a pretty neat game. give it a whack or spam clicking if that's your fancy.

Lastly, I'd like to thank everyone who allowed us to use art in the game. It was a fun process getting permission from everyone over ~2 weeks but the art in the game looks really great. So shoutouts to @Atastic, @CrispyToastYT, @ElRandomGMD, @Jyfhz, @KujoNG, and @Newergrounder5 (extra thanks to them - I reached out less than a day before the game went live for that FNF art)!

Also thanks to @Kabobble. The game looks pretty, is really well designed, and kicks the asses of those HTML trivial trivias from a few years back. Glad to see the TT series continue with such a great submission!

P.S. It's not late for any jams/contests or anything, it's right on time (although it would've been a cool Pico Day submission)

Big ol' trivia game drop coming June 1. Trivia is wrapping up and it's just a game of QoL and polish left for the most part. This will be a trivia game that is actually fun and incentivizes replayability of the trivia available. More info to come on what's in store.

Head over to Kabobble's page for some updates coming out this week on what you can expect to see

I also greatly appreciate the collaborators on the project. we both suck at art so to have others providing art for characters & some key icons is very wonderful... Thank you!

In collaboration with another fellow here, the original Newgrounds Trivial Trivia game is updated & ready to go in the year 2024. The update brings the game to HTML5 allowing for it to be played even easier than before. On top of that, questions are updated and should now be correct even 8 years later.

The original questions are mostly unchanged (some are reworded to read better), and some questions needed to be replaced due to them referencing changed or defunct features (goodbye PS3 themes!) so check it out and brush off that NG knowledge you may have.

thanks to @Kabobble for writing a good portion of the new game.

What's New?

Well, the obvious answer is the brand new look, brand new sounds, and brand new feel of the game. It's hip, colorful, and pretty responsive compared to some of the other stuff I've submitted. Give it a peek and see what you think. Outside of that...

Scores - Each game has a maximum score of 100 points. Each question will reward up to 5 points - 3 for correctness, up to 2 for time. Your first 5 seconds of a question are free, but if you drop below 10s, you get 1 time point, below 5s you get 0 time points.

Leaderboards - Two new leaderboards exist - the previous one should still be active for the flash version of the game. It is not integrated in the new version.

Medals - Due to scoring being different, medals are now updated to reward to the new scale. The final medal is slightly easier to obtain and you actually have a chance to read the question without losing the ability to get this medal.

What's next?

Another iteration of Trivial Trivia will be coming near the end of this month (prob the last Thursday or Friday). There's some features this update is testing out that will be fully functional in 2ish weeks, so keep an eye out for what's to come.

Are other versions going to be redone?

Probably. I'd prefer to nuke some of the submissions out of orbit but with how the last few weeks have been going a 'refresh' may work out. Kabobble is handling some quizzes in the next submission, so if they are well received I'll let them handle refreshes for any trivia that may have demand for an update.

Trivia Music

I'll be posting the main theme of the new version of the game shortly along with a version I'm not too sure how to implement (you'll see). The trivia loop won't be posted - it's short, repetitive, and isn't all that great by itself in my opinion.

Until next time...

The series of trivia games will be making a return sometime in May. @Kabobble has re-written the codebase with some additional HTM5/JS skill and it'll be back prettier than ever.

Part of the deal is to re-write some of the older games that are still written in AS3 to get them modern, playable cross-browser/OS, and fixed up tech-wise. You'll see this done with the Trivial Trivia: Newgrounds project soon enough.

I'll have another post up later once the NG game is updated to HTML5 and a new(ish) entry is published by my buddy.

I'll be taking a back seat to any new entries in the project once I see updates to the old games are established. In the meantime, I'm working with Kabobble to fix questions, create audio loops, and direct the flow of how these games operate. There will be some new features to look out for too.

For existing Flash projects getting revamped, I'll lay out how achievements and leaderboards will be affected as the updates roll out. Plan is to rename and refactor achievements AND add no new achievements. If you've completed these games before and don't want to revisit them, no problem. The idea here is to keep anyone who has 100%'d the games happy.

That was a little unexpected. But thank you very much @TomFulp for the feature! I'd also like to thank everyone who has played and rated the game for the feedback and reviews. It's the best rated game I've published and I'm happy to see the month of development pay off for it.

Oh yea, thanks to the 100 people who are now following me as well. I'll try to keep posting good stuff in the future.

Thanks again!