iQuiz Game Now Available

[MacRumors]

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Following an inadvertant peek (http://www.macrumors.com/2007/04/18/new-ipod-game-iquiz-coming/) last week. Apple has released iQuiz trivia game (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewGame?id=250327961&s=143441) (iTunes Link) for the 5th generation iPods on the Apple iTunes Store:
Get your trivia fix with iQuiz, the fast-paced entertainment trivia game designed in a portable format. Put your pop culture knowledge to the test with questions about music, movies and TV shows."

[rxse7en]

Suck it, Trebek.

[MacinDoc]

My wife loves trivia games, so I'll download it for her iPod.

[koobcamuk]

we need puzzle bobble!!!

[Evangelion]

I'm laughing in the inside.

[mrkgoo]

It's only the cost of a song, so I'm buying it.

[mkrishnan]

Suck it, Trebek.

This game would rule if you could play against simulated personalities such as, say, I don't know, Sean Connery. :D

[keithos27]

purchase not available... the item is being modified :(

[amacgenius]

I'll definately check this out when I get home from school, seems interesting and I could always use a mind game when I'm bored and I have my iPod with me.

[sunfast]

we need puzzle bobble!!!

Brilliant idea! An iPod would be great to play it on

[adrianm]

An iTunes Store-related product that's actually available outside of the US on launch day :eek: . UK in my case. That's gotta be a first.

[losx12]

The link doesn't seem to be working yet so I haven't tried making a Trivia pack but it does sound interesting.

[dwntwnaus]

The link doesn't seem to be working yet so I haven't tried making a Trivia pack but it does sound interesting.

Aspyr has a free utility for creating quizzes. Go to www.iquizmaker.com to download it.

[ghall]

Aspyr has a free utility for creating quizzes. Go to www.iquizmaker.com to download it.
Already? Those guys are fast (except when it comes to Universal Binary updates :mad: ).

Anyway, as soon as I get more that 46¢ in my iTunes, I'll download it. Looks awesome.

[Gee4orce]

It's (presumably) wrongly priced at £0.79 on the UK iTunes store. I bought it, and the transaction went through fine - Apple can't touch me either: under UK law if you sell something at a price, and that price is wrong, it's you're luck out :)

[johnee]

I wonder if this is an attempt to break into the brainage market that's exploded on the nintendo DS? That game's got older adults buying the DS like crazy!

[mrkgoo]

It's (presumably) wrongly priced at £0.79 on the UK iTunes store. I bought it, and the transaction went through fine - Apple can't touch me either: under UK law if you sell something at a price, and that price is wrong, it's you're luck out :)

Well, I got it for NZ$1.79 (one song), and in the US store, the logo has a 0.99 banner on it. I think it's the right price.

[justflie]

I just checked the iTunes link and the price is now $4.99 USD. You guys that already bought it got lucky!

[FrenchKheldar]

Ahahah, I bought it while it was a $.99 US, we'll see if they charge me afterwards... I did a full music quizz and it's really excellent, you have to find either a song, an album from its art, the release year, ... There are 5 rounds with bonus rounds in between. Just scored $12k :)

The trivias were not as appealing for me, but I'm sure the user-created trivias will rock !

Great value even at $4.99 I think !!!

[mrkgoo]

I just checked the iTunes link and the price is now $4.99 USD. You guys that already bought it got lucky!

Weird - I browsed US store, and it says 0.99 - and there's even a tag on teh game icon declaring as much!

[Abstract]

I didn't vote this positive or negative. I know Apple hired some game developers, but honestly, even with no programming knowledge, I think I could have wrote a similar game in 1 month, and that includes learning the code necessary to make such a game work. It's not exactly an exciting release of any sort. It may be a big hit with the MR crowd, but ask anyone off the street, or a typical iPod customer, and they're not going to give a hoot about a trivia game.

On the other hand, it could still be fun to have on the iPod (if you actually play games on it), and it's not expensive.

[twoodcc]

well this is nice and all.....would have loved to see a hardware update today though.....

[MondayNgt]

How many immature comments can a Mac-fanatic come up with?
Is the elitism of a Mac-user an aquired characteristic or are they born with it?

No more immature than the comments Mac users have to deal with from Windows elitist folks ;)

[justflie]

Weird - I browsed US store, and it says 0.99 - and there's even a tag on teh game icon declaring as much!

hmm, here's what I got when I checked at 10:13AM EST:

[justflie]

HA! I just checked it again and it's $0.99. Weird...

[bdj21ya]

Wow! Stop the madness!!! I'll probably buy this if it is 99 cents sometime while I'm in class today.

Maybe oscillating prices will be a new feature announced for the iTunes Store at large. The major record labels said they wanted "variable" pricing! :D

[KingofAwesome]

First question of the game:

How much does this game cost?
a. $0.99
b. $4.99
c. :apple:million

[Stella]

I think its acquired together with a apple purchase. Honestly, how low is the creativity of the ipod games sinking. I mean a trivia game... brilliant (not).
Maybe apple should open its platform. Hell if i can play doom on my crappy Ti-84 (graphing calculator), I would pay for a colour version on the ipod.

Give us some real games apple!

I've tried a few games on the iPod but the interface doesn't lend itself to great game play. I find it awkward.

I see iPod games as a gimmick more than anything. Hopefully this will change with the next significant revision of the iPod - multi-touch screen, for example.

[Maccus Aurelius]

I've tried a few games on the iPod but the interface doesn't lend itself to great game play. I find it awkward.

I see iPod games as a gimmick more than anything. Hopefully this will change with the next significant revision of the iPod - multi-touch screen, for example.

Actually, Tetris, I find works very very well on the iPod. My gf was fiddling with my video and she happened to come across the game. She was still new to the clickwheel yet fell right into the gameplay and controls. It's designed very well, and actually works better with one thumb for me than all those times I've played Tetris on a gameboy. They are sort of gimmicks, but are still pleasant gimmicks that are nice time killing applications.

[chuckiej]

Actually, Tetris, I find works very very well on the iPod. My gf was fiddling with my video and she happened to come across the game. She was still new to the clickwheel yet fell right into the gameplay and controls. It's designed very well, and actually works better with one thumb for me than all those times I've played Tetris on a gameboy. They are sort of gimmicks, but are still pleasant gimmicks that are nice time killing applications.

I agree. It may take a while to get used to but Vortex and Zuma work very well. As testament, I've made it to level 13-1 in Zuma with 3 lives left. (If you think level 9 or 10 is the end, you are wrong and yes, its harder :eek: ) Every once in a while I shoot a ball at the wrong place and blame the scroll wheel...

I don't imagine Pac-Man is terribly easy on an iPod but I can tell you those two games work well and are fun, Maccus says Tetris is too, and iQuiz looks like it will be also.

[BoyBach]

It's (presumably) wrongly priced at £0.79 on the UK iTunes store. I bought it, and the transaction went through fine - Apple can't touch me either: under UK law if you sell something at a price, and that price is wrong, it's you're luck out :)


I've also bought it for 79 pence and I don't even have a 5th gen iPod!

[aafuss1]

$1.69 at AU iTS. Hope'll they'll fix the price there soon.

[BiikeMike]

Just checked the US store, still 0.99 up in herre

[Counter]

News just in: They're not setting a final price in order to make it's release somewhat discussable.

[aafuss1]

The icons in iQuiz are iPhone-like.

[psycoswimmer]

Weird - I browsed US store, and it says 0.99 - and there's even a tag on teh game icon declaring as much!

Yup, same here. Buy while you can? :p

[aafuss1]

Just played MQ2-music quiz 2 and scored $20, 000. More fun to play than the original music quiz.

[Maccus Aurelius]

I agree. It may take a while to get used to but Vortex and Zuma work very well. As testament, I've made it to level 13-1 in Zuma with 3 lives left. (If you think level 9 or 10 is the end, you are wrong and yes, its harder :eek: ) Every once in a while I shoot a ball at the wrong place and blame the scroll wheel...

I don't imagine Pac-Man is terribly easy on an iPod but I can tell you those two games work well and are fun, Maccus says Tetris is too, and iQuiz looks like it will be also.

Pacman is dreadful to use, even after you get the hang of the controls. The issue with this game is that you have to turn your thumb around accordingly on the touch wheel to select the path for pacman to go into. If you turn and run from a ghost you might turn your finger too far and turn around again and head straight for the ghost and die. It's pretty frustrating. Unfortunately the zune would be the better device for pacman, as the directional pad is optimal for this type of game.

[aafuss1]

I've just released the first trivia pack for iQuiz called Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics.

Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics is a short quiz about Windows XP for Apple's iQuiz game for iPods.

How to install-unzip and copy the quiz pack and folder into: the iPod Games's iQuiz (in the iTunes folder on your PC or Mac). Then connect your iPod and sync it with iTunes 7.1 or later.


Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036763

[donlphi]

I can see teachers writing up all sorts of requests to get iPODS in the classroom with this addition. I'm imagining the future iPOD with wi-fi and using the main classroom computer as the server. BETTER PATENT THAT IMMEDIATELY.

Teacher makes up their own tests, downloads state tests. ACT and SAT sell questions for iQuiz to help with student preparation.

Pretty exciting stuff.

Kids forget their books every day, but I assure you, they don't forget their iPODS.

[sminman]

I can see teachers writing up all sorts of requests to get iPODS in the classroom with this addition. I'm imagining the future iPOD with wi-fi and using the main classroom computer as the server. BETTER PATENT THAT IMMEDIATELY.

Teacher makes up their own tests, downloads state tests. ACT and SAT sell questions for iQuiz to help with student preparation.

Pretty exciting stuff.

Kids forget their books every day, but I assure you, they don't forget their iPODS.

I could see something like this happening too. It's a great idea since you can make up your own questions and I'm sure people will hear about this game in the next couple of weeks.

Once again, great idea!

[Draythor]

I've also bought it for 79 pence and I don't even have a 5th gen iPod!

Ditto. Hoping to get one soon, as my nano packed in earlier this week...I'll look forward to using it! Should be quite a good way to revise...

[zap2]

For 99Cent, why not!?

Haven't used it yet, but I'll play with it tonight for sure

[rye9]

How come the link shows me a $4.99 game but going to it manually costs $0.99??

Oh haha oops.. I see that's been covered.. never mind. :P

[mpentleton]

I agree that there are huge possibilities for teachers with iQuiz. It's maybe not hugely exciting and we all probably wanted other things prioritised, but for us teachers it's great to have something for which we can quickly write quizzes and get kids actually learning on their iPods.

I've done a quiz based on the vocabulary in the latest lesson of my Coffee Break Spanish (http://www.coffeebreakspanish.com) podcast. You can download the zip file here (http://media.libsyn.com/media/coffeebreakspanish/cbs-24-iquiz.zip) (instructions included).

Incidentally, I got it for £0.79 here in the UK. The iQuizmaker site seems to be down just now though. Obviously there's a lot of traffic today.

[RumMunkey]

Pacman is dreadful to use, even after you get the hang of the controls. The issue with this game is that you have to turn your thumb around accordingly on the touch wheel to select the path for pacman to go into. If you turn and run from a ghost you might turn your finger too far and turn around again and head straight for the ghost and die. It's pretty frustrating. Unfortunately the zune would be the better device for pacman, as the directional pad is optimal for this type of game.

Go back and check the built-in tutorial, that's not how you control Pac Man. A lot of people are making this mistake since most other games do work this way.

To move Pac Man (or Ms. Pac Man), you need to only lightly tap the "next", "previous", "Pause/Play" and "Menu" portions of the click wheel to move right, left, down or up.

You don't need to run your thumb all around the entire scroll wheel, and you don't need to actually push these buttons down hard, just a really light tap will change Pac Man's direction. Think of it as a 4-button game.

Once you figure this out, the game is a lot easier to play and a lot more fun too.

[twoodcc]

well i just got this game for $.99 ;)

[Cassie]

Weeee...I love $0.99 games.:D

[PCMacUser]

I could see something like this happening too. It's a great idea since you can make up your own questions and I'm sure people will hear about this game in the next couple of weeks.

Once again, great idea!

Heh, I actually thought he was being sarcastic, but I may have read that wrong!

I doubt that many schools in my country would be prepared to force their students to spend several hundred dollars on a piece of equipment purely for the purpose of running a little $1.79 quiz program. That sort of thing can already be done with existing PCs or even... ahem... paper!

[aafuss1]

The site for iQuizMaker seems to be down at the moment.

[Cassie]

w00t, $183,000 on Music Quiz 2. :)


I love how you can mess with the iQuiz logo using the clickwheel during loading sequences. :D

[a456]

At the price it looks like a game that could be on the majority of iPods before long. OK, perhaps it could have been a more innovative game that they priced like this, but if everyone on the tube and buses is playing it then watch out Nintendo.

[johnmcboston]

I listened to music on my ipod today. I feel so 2006

:-)

[amacgenius]

I scored quite high with Music Quiz 2 this morning, got to the very last question and got it wrong putting me up to 3 strikes so I didn't make it past that.

[glucker]

i want asteroids!! seriously it makes sense, how hard can it be to make th controls for that?

[PCMacUser]

i want asteroids!! seriously it makes sense, how hard can it be to make th controls for that?

Yeah, and maybe space invaders too. Bring on the retro!

[BiikeMike]

Downloaded it last night for a long car ride today... played two rounds of Music quiz 2. First time I got $20, next time $90 :eek:

[The Toon Master]

I wish the windows version for making Trivia Q's was up...

Fun game, definatly worth the dollar

[cyberpostdoc]

http://www.iquizshare.com has a lot of iQuizzes for download. You can also share your own quiz there.

[pnyc]

Thanks for the link.

[The Toon Master]

Does anybody know when the windows version of the software to create own triva Q's will be out?

[jensen77]

iQuiz is a pretty impressive game for being on the iPod...

By the way, there is no need to wait to download quiz-maker software - iQuizr.com (http://iquizr.com) lets you make quizpacks through an online interface and then share them with everyone - very handy. ;)

[The Toon Master]

Windows software is out, w00t!