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Askutron is a trivia game for up to 8 players that can be played with gamepads and/or mobile devices featuring fully voiced questions.
Up to 8 players play with and against each other in different quiz rounds:

Blitz Quiz - only the fastest answer wins points
Point Hunt - every right answer yields points (speed not important)
Viewpoints - The players answer a survey and then have to guess the most popular answer among them.
Cut the Cake! - Players are divided into two teams and fight for the biggest piece of cake (points)
Finale - Players are assigned a position from 1 to 8 depending on their gathered points and have to answer questions to achieve a higher position.

At the end of the game bonus awards are given to players, e.g. for the fastest answers or the most correct answers. Players can play online and submit their own quizzes and questions to be played by others.

Synthetic voice over for questions and
10,000+ questions fully voiced in English, German, Russian, …
Steam Workshop integration for creating and sharing your own quizzes
even player-generated content is fully voiced
Constantly growing collection of general knowledge questions and topical quizzes
mobile devices (iOS, Android) supported as alternative to controllers
3D graphics; players can choose between various avatars and buzzer sounds
party game bringing together 8 players locally

Update: Added Quiz Editor, Mode Selection, Steam Workshop, Steam Cloud and various improvements

We're happy to announce the latest update to Askutron - the Quiz show game - brought a whole bunch of improvements!
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Quiz Editor

You can now use the quiz editor to create your own quizzes! Add as many questions as you like. You can even add images to the questions. By default your own quizzes will only be visible to you on your PC.
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Steam Workshop

We're working on the Steam Workshop integration and are halfway there. If you enable Steamworks sharing for your quiz in the editor, you can press F6 in the main menu of the game to upload your quiz to the Steam Workshop where other players will be able to see and subscribe to your quiz!
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Well, that's the first half of the integration. The second half is the part where you can actually play the quizzes created by other players. This will be released with the next update, so stay tuned! Maybe you can use the waiting time to prepare your very first quiz for the Workshop!

Mode Selection

We just added a rudimentary mode selection. Where before the sequence of game modes was fixed you can now choose which of the modes you actually want to play.
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Steam Cloud

User profiles, statistics and quizzes you created are now automatically backed up using the Steam Cloud!

Category Selection

The new and improved category selection now chooses the 4 random options more intelligently, avoiding duplicates and selecting categories based on how many questions they contain relative to the total number of questions in the quiz.
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Various Improvements

On top of all this we had several smaller improvements throughout the game.

Question difficulty is now managed by the game (UI for selecting the difficulty is still in progress)
2,500 new English questions added!
Answers selected on the app are now highlighted more strongly by not only increasing the size of the selected answer, but also decreasing the size of the other options
The "Ready" screen of the mobile app now also displays the QR code that other people can use to join the game

What's next

We're still working hard on getting the game ready for Early Access. Our next step is publishing the "Coming Soon" page of the game on Steam for which we still need a trailer. Working on that, too...

In the meantime we appreciate the help of our alpha testers to get rid of the remaining bugs!

[ 2017-10-01 23:35:36 CET ] [Original Post]