We basically took a beating in terms of gamer retention so we know we're doing something wrong. It's bad when you have 46 people play the game in the first week and no one comes back to play the game again.
So here's the list of improvements we want to make to the game more palatable to the general public.
- Practice Mode and Competitive Mode are being removed and replaced with Prize Mode
- Prize Mode will consist of 15 randomly selected questions - This will shift the game play to be a more frantic scavenger hunt for the correct answer by following the answer links.
- The player with the highest score at the end of the week will win $15 for themselves - We believe this is important in attracting a larger audience, one that probably wouldn't play the game otherwise.
- If we don't have any sponsored gifts to give out for the Community Prize, players will be able to donate $15 to a charity of their choice.
- All players will be able to take the Prize Game once for free, but all subsequent games played require the player to submit a question.
- During gameplay the player's score is shown along side the scores of the top 7 scores for that week.
- On the score screen we'll tell the player their score and ranking among all the games played so far - i.e You are ranked 9th out of 230
- All question submissions will allow the player to immediately play Prize Mode again. However any "bad" question submission will disqualify the player for the entire week.
- Questions submitted must fit into one of our preselected categories - By controlling which question categories we offer, we can control what type of questions get submitted which allows us to subtly guide the game direction and content.
