Hello everyone!
Fallacy Quiz was released a month ago already, reviews and feedback were really heartwarming. Thanks to everyone who got the game and helped spreading it. Among that feedback were good suggestions and mentions of some issues in the game. If you add to that the fact that there were some features I wanted to include but did not make the cut for 1.0, you'll understand why I'm so happy to announce the release of version 1.1 of Fallacy Quiz!

What's new in Fallacy Quiz ?

The achievement notebook

One of the most exciting addition is the achievement notebook!
On the title screen there is now a new button to access a 3D virtual notebook, similar to the glossary. You can flip its pages to check, in game, which achievements you've unlocked and which ones you still have to get. I'm really happy with the final result and I think it adds a lot to the experience, you don't have to go back to Steam's UI to know what's left to unlock.

Question History

A new screen is now available at the end of each quiz, the question history screen. This is for players that want to up their game.
It works in all modes, solo or multiplayer, and it let's you check what were the questions, what were the correct answers and what everyone answered. It was suggested to me, and it was a really good idea, so I made it happen! It's a great way to learn from your mistakes, or settle some disagreements you had with other players during the game.

Secret difficulty option

I don't want to talk too much about that one, it's a secret, but there's a third difficulty option in the game. However, you need to work hard to unlock it!

Settings

It might be smoother to run the game on lower end hardware now that there is an option to disable shadows. Window option is now persistent, so the game will remember you preferred window option from session to session. On top of this, you don't have to use exclusive full-screen anymore, people who know what this is might appreciate it!

Fixes and improvements

The VSync setting was broken, thank you for letting me know, it should be fixed now. Also, there were some UI improvement, like the selection height in the glossary, the credits' UI and the icons resolution that have been increased. I also reworked some definitions and questions wordings. Everything is more polished than ever!

That's it!

Version 1.1 is now out. I'm working solo on this so I've been pretty focus on this update and I did not really have time to spread the word about my game, so that's what I'm going to do next. In the meantime, enjoy the new features and let me know what you think! If you liked it, please, leave a review, the next goal is 50 positive reviews, we are halfway there! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2847380/Fallacy_Quiz/ Playing this game helps you detect fallacious reasoning, so if you don't play this game, you won't be able to detect any fallacious reasoning, right? See you around!

[ 2025-01-24 23:22:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

• Default reading speed was fixed
• Various typos and mistakes in the glossary that were reported by some kind players were fixed

[ 2024-12-20 13:51:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Big news everyone!
After nearly a year of development, Fallacy Quiz comes out on Steam today, my indie solo / local-multiplayer quiz game about rhetorical and logical fallacies, (or how to learn in a fun way about how people manipulate you and how to stick it to them). It should be out right now! It's been quite a journey, but I firmly believe that the final 1.0 build of my game is one of my best piece of work yet. I hope you'll be able to see what I've put into it, all the love that went into the details, the content, the presentation etc. and that you'll enjoy, maybe benefit from, your time playing the game. Fallacy Quiz started as a little prototype, but I think I revolutionized the world of quiz games, making it the first quintuple A quiz game. It's an AAAAA game ;) Someone once told me, "it's either you release on Steam, or you won't make it as a game developer", I said "Sir, this is a false dichotomy", but then I thought about it, and it's true that it seems like that. Today I release my game on Steam, it doesn't mean that I'll make it as a game developer, but I've never been closer. If you like the game and what I'm trying to make, please give it a positive review and talk about it to your friends, maybe, give it as a gift for the holidays, all those things help tremendously. I know that launching a game is not the end, it's just the beginning. I'll wait for your bug reports, in the meantime I'll be telling everyone and their dog about my new game, Fallacy Quiz, that just came out on Steam. Now, let's have some fun in Fallacy Quiz ! Get it now: The game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2847380/Fallacy_Quiz/

[ 2024-12-19 19:43:02 CET ] [ Original post ]

I'm thrilled to announce that Fallacy Quiz, the quiz game designed to test your ability to identify misleading or incorrect reasoning, finally has a definitive release date, and will be available on Steam starting December 19th!
"New recipe, buy it now", "Everyone does that, so it's ok if I do it too", "That's the way we've always done it". Tired of being played for a fool? What if you could get better at identifying, naming and responding to misleading or incorrect reasoning, Fallacy Quiz is a great way to train your critical thinking skills while having fun. In Fallacy Quiz, you will be presented with various statements and you must determine if they are fallacious, or even identify specific fallacies in expert mode. With 200 questions and 50 different types of fallacies, Fallacy Quiz is the perfect tool for anyone looking to improve their critical thinking skills. The game features a realistic "craft" aesthetic with original drawings and sketches and a virtual 3D book. The fallacies have definitions available in a glossary that you can flip through as if it was a real one. You will be able to play solo or compete with friends in local multiplayer mode (up to four players). The game also includes customizable options, such as difficulty level, number of rounds and questions, and the ability to disable the timer if you want. Get Ready for the Fallacy Quiz! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2847380/Fallacy_Quiz/ Mark your calendars, December 19th can't come soon enough! Add Fallacy Quiz to your Steam wishlist today and get ready to put your logical thinking skills to the test!

[ 2024-12-05 21:55:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

I've spent the last two months on adding the most ambitious feature to Fallacy Quiz, I'm now ready to announce that there will be a local multiplayer mode, but that's not all! If you're new, Fallacy Quiz is a game to learn to spot logical and rhetorical fallacies, it can be added to your wishlist right now and it's really close to being released. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2847380/Fallacy_Quiz/ So, what's new since last post? It was a real challenge to make it happen, but Fallacy Quiz is now officially a local multiplayer game!

Local Multiplayer!

Imagine playing alongside friends or family members, working together or against each other, trying to get everyone to choose the right answers or trying to get the high score for yourself. That's exactly what you can do with the brand-new local multiplayer mode!
Up to 4 players can join using controllers or the keyboard (WASD and arrows), each with their unique color and shape, visible on their hand pointer. By default there's no time limit so yo can debate each question with your friends, but you can use the custom mode to have the timer on for quick and chaotic games.
Use controllers? Oh yeah. The game now fully supports most standard controllers!

Controller Support

I added full controller support, it was needed for multiplayer, but it's really handy on solo mode too. When not using a mouse, a helpful visual cursor in the shape of a hand will guide you through the interface.

Visual improvements

I've added a new theme for expert mode to be able to differentiate and make this harder mode a bit more eerie. Plus, it looks real fancy in my opinion.
The paper pieces illustrations have undergone a stunning transformation! I've added wrinkles and reflections to give them a more realistic look. It's all in the details.
Finally, the overall lighting has been improved.

Other improvements

I've improved navigation in the Glossary to make sure you can go back to the index or exit more easily. I also decided to add a little text on pages you haven't discovered yet to make it clearer what's happening. Last but not least, some behind-the-scenes work has gone into fixing graphical issues and optimizing performance. You'll notice a smoother experience overall! Fallacy Quiz beta has now being played by students in classrooms, youtubers are making videos playing it and my friends harass me everyday about the next update, and it's not even out yet! Let's keep this going until the release, if you could wishlist the game it would help me tremendously. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2847380/Fallacy_Quiz/ I'm pretty much sure that the next announcement is going to be the release date, so stay tuned!

[ 2024-08-19 14:45:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi! I'm back with a new development update. I've been getting a lot of feedback since the last one and I'm working hard to get to the final version of the game while taking your comments into account. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2847380/Fallacy_Quiz/ Fallacy Quiz is a game to learn to spot logical and rhetorical fallacies, it's getting closer and closer to completion. In this post, I'd like to share all the additions, changes and bug fixes since last post. Let's get into it!

New Features

Play the game inside the game? Do we live in a simulation?

The Fallacy Glossary addition was a big hit among testers. It's a simulation of a book. You unlock fallacy definitions while you play. Until now you had to finish a game and then go back to the main menu to check the glossary. People asked for definitions to be accessible during the game itself, and it's what was planned from the beginning, but I didn't want the definition to be shown outside of the book so I had to decide how to include the book during the gameplay.
The solution was quite funny but it was a real challenge to implement. When you want to check a definition, the game freezes and the camera zooms-out, turns out you were playing Fallacy Quiz on a virtual computer inside the game this whole time and the glossary is lying on the desk in front of you. The idea is to make it feel like you have a physical glossary that you can just check by pausing the game. I'm really satisfied with the effect, I had to model a 3D desk environment but it was worth it in my opinion. This was even more reality shattering when I was working on it on my computer!
This really changes the way you play since you can now check and understand why you failed or even why you got it right by chance.

Confetti

This might be the biggest announcement: there are now confetti when you successfully answer a question. Yeah, I know, it's okay if you stop reading here and go update the game, I understand you excitement, it's totally warranted.

Changes

Look and feel

I spent a lot of time refining the look of the 3D environments in the game when you check the glossary. It was a lot of tweaking to get it right, I think the end result is stunning.

But it's not fair sometimes!

The game was indeed not fair in some cases. Some fallacies are subsets or special cases of other fallacies. For instance an anecdotal evidence could be seen as a hasty generalization. So when there's a question about an anecdotal evidence you could have hasty generalization as a possible answer but the game would tell you you are wrong. To fix this I created an invisible system: groups to track fallacy similarity, so that fallacies that are too similar would not be offered as possible answers simultaneously. As a user it doesn't feel that different, if it wasn't for this post you might never know it's even there. But it will tremendously reduce those ambiguities and the game will feel smoother for it. Flip through that book!!! You can now keep the arrow keys pressed down to flip through the book. It's not a key feature, but it sure is a satisfying one.

Polished game selection screen

I'm still wasting time on the game selection screen, but I love it so much, it's like way too polished at this point. I changed the color scheme with a gradient for the background and added some particles this time around.

Fixes

• The sound effects are no longer glitching when using the pause menu.
• The issue with the expert mode that was unlocked multiple times is fixed.
• The infinite score glitch is patched (even if it was a funny one).
• And you can't have the same question twice anymore when you play on your sixth game (yeah it was a weird one).
• Oh. And all the typos... corrected. But I'm sure there are even more of them, so let me know!

That's it for today. The fact that you can know check the glossary during the game in a virtual desk environment is the big achievement of this update and I can't wait for you to check it out! I'm getting closer to the final release and I still have two big features I want to include and a massive amount of new questions, so stay tuned. It's hard to do everything on my own, but liking/sharing/commenting on this post, talking about the game, adding it to your wishlist, any and all of this helps me so much, so thanks for following and supporting the development of Fallacy Quiz. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2847380/Fallacy_Quiz/

[ 2024-07-19 14:32:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello everyone! I'm super excited to share with you all the info about the latest dev updates of Fallacy Quiz. It's been an absolute joy to work on this project.
Fallacy Quiz is a game where you are challenged to identify logical and rhetorical fallacies in various statements. In this devlog, I'd like to show the new features, explain what was changed, some bug fixes that have been implemented based on beta players valuable feedback, and also share some info about the future of the project!

New Features

The Fallacy Glossary, a book simulation

This is clearly the highlight. I've created a virtual book filled with descriptions and examples of close to fifty rhetorical fallacies. This is now accessible within the game, allowing players to flip through pages just like in real life!
It's been an incredible learning experience for me as well, as it has deepened my understanding of logical fallacies, but also my technical know-how, because this book was a pain to make on the technical side. It's not a menu, it's an actual 3D book with realistic physics that you can interact with, even down to the sound of the pages flipping. The book can be explored using either your mouse or your keyboard. All the descriptions are available both in English and French.
Ive introduced a new feature as a follow up to the new glossary: pages from the Fallacy Glossary now have to be unlocked as you play the game. This means that you can read about the fallacies you already encountered and will have to play more games to fill out the glossary. This adds some challenge and lets you discover fallacies without being overwhelmed by a whole book of definitions from the get go.

Make your own rules, Custom Mode

Some players of the beta suggested to create a mode without time limits to be able to play with other people, discuss and debate about each statement at their own pace. It's a feature that has been highly requested, so I'm thrilled to finally include it in Fallacy Quiz. But I went even further. Players can now create their own entirely custom game modes by choosing the number of rounds, questions, using timers or not, game difficulty and more.

Changes

Fancy New Game Mode Selection Screen

Since I now have a custom mode and a glossary, the title-screen started to feel a bit crowded with a row of six buttons. That's why I've added a new and improved mode selection screen with super fancy illustrated, parallax effect-fueled buttons.
These interactive buttons are made out of drawings placed on different planes, giving the whole interface an amazing visual appeal, in my opinion!

Content fixes

Content did not change too much yet. Thanks to your feedback I updated the names of some fallacies and corrected some statements. But I am planning to add new content in the future, including two to three times the amount of questions. This will provide players with even greater challenges and opportunities to test their knowledge of logical fallacies. Stay tuned for these exciting news!

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Based on beta players feedback, I have addressed several bugs that were affecting the gameplay experience. These bug fixes should make the game run smoother and more enjoyable for everyone. There are still some known bugs in the game, for instance some sound effects not being paused in the pause menu.
Thank you all so much for your interest about Fallacy Quiz.I'm always eager to hear what you think about the project, as it helps me make improvements and develop new features that will enhance the gaming experience. If you have suggestions, please don't hesitate to share them with me! I am committed to making Fallacy Quiz one of the best logical fallacies trivia game out there. Go Wishlist the game and share the page everywhere, bye!

[ 2024-05-02 17:03:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey everyone! I am really excited to announce that my new game Fallacy Quiz has now a page on Steam. It's going to be a unique game where you'll have to identify fallacies in statements and will help improve your critical thinking skills. It's not just about playing and having fun, it's also about learning something valuable in real life situations. As you get higher scores, you become better at identifying deceptive arguments and manipulative tactics used by people around us every day. I've worked really hard to make this game engaging and educational for everyone who plays it. I'm still working on it and I'll let you know as soon as it's ready for you to enjoy! I think Fallacy Quiz will be a great addition to your gaming library and could help you in your everyday life as well. As an indie developer, it can be hard to get your games noticed so if you wishlist the game it would be awesome. Better yet, share the game with your friends, family, or anyone else who might enjoy playing it. Your support is greatly appreciated!

[ 2024-03-04 19:10:23 CET ] [ Original post ]