How do you build a trivia game?

Answer 1

Well, what I would do is start out by looking at what other people have done in the Trivia game genre. Often, the board is just colors and the card design is the most important thing. In other trivia games there is no board... you win when one team has answered a certain number of questions correctly. So, think about what you want the goal of your game to be. For instance, do you want players to answer questions in different categories to win, or do you want them to focus on one category, but solve progressively harder challenges? The goal of the game will impact the game board design. The theme of the game will also matter... I have trivia games based on law school, on psychology, and on 80s music trivia. The theme that you choose will play a part in how you describe the goal of the game. If it is law questions you can tell the players that the goal is to graduate from law school, and take them through different categories of law and different difficulty levels if you want to. If it is 80s songs... maybe they have to know trivia in different categories like Artists and Lyrics... and the goal could be to... get a music award, or escape from the 80s. :) You can have a track board layout, where the pieces go around and around landing on different colors until a certain number of questions is reached. You could have a goal board, with a start and an end, and the first person to the end wins... but you get to the end by answering questions. You could also have a level board, where people move "up" based on answering questions, and then rankings determine the winner at the end of a time limit... say, an hour.

Anyway, that was a lot to throw at you, but maybe that will help with some of the decisions you make as you design a game. :)

Answer 2

you have to know the question and then answer it