A really nerdy quiz anyone?

[Vulgaris]

Let me first put this into context.

As I mentioned in my introductory post some days ago, but which you may not have read, I am a postdoctoral researcher in the field of microbiology, and have since child been a science nerd at heart and proud of it. But as many of you probably know, being a nerd isn't always easy in a world primarily marketing pop-culture in all its fancy glory, with very little focus on the needs of people spending more time pondering the function of the automatic doorway than on what way to comb their hair.

 

About one and a half years ago, me and my friend was sitting at this students bar after having attended one of those 'once a week' bar quizzes. Just like so many times before we hadn't done very good in the quiz, and the reason for this, we both agreed, was the subjects of the questions: Sports, politics, pop music, celebrities and whatever. Whenever there finally was a biology related question or a question in any other so called 'nerdy' category like sci fi movies or computer games, it was so easy that anyone could answer it. Knowing a lot about these things never really helped, because you only needed to know a little.

That fateful day we, two nerds in a bar, decided to do something about it. We decided to build our own nerdy game - a quiz for the good old hardcore NERD with two wrist watches and a Star Wars backpack. Having both worked with developing web sites and so on before, it wasn't long before we had set out to build a fully fledge flash interface game for TRUE nerds.

After one and a half years in development we have finally launched a version of the game a couple of days ago. It ended up as a quiz with 15 different nerdy categories from math, chemistry, astronomy and so on over software and internet to sci fi movies and fantasy literature, and I think it turned out pretty well. There are several interesting features (gimmicks) in the game, but one of the most important is that the players themselves can (and should) make the questions for the game. In that way we hope to ensure that there's always new and interesting questions to play through.

Now, ofcourse we'd like people to actually play the game, and we hope that all the other true nerds out there, being science or movie or computer or any other kind of nerds, will enjoy what we've made. So I encourage you to go and try it out as much as you like, and if anyone should feel like adding some questions, that would be totally awesome! We can never get too many science questions...

The game itself is called 'Game of Nerds' and can be found on

www.gameofnerds.com.

Try it out and let me know what you think. The project is still in development, so any input is much appreciated!

/Vulg

[Marqq]

it's a little laggy

 

also, I don't think I'm nerdy enough for it

[Ringer]

It disturbs me that there is a Twilight question on a nerdy quiz but other than that it's pretty fun.

[Vulgaris]

Heh, yeah. I'm not sure how that got there .

 

Marqq, I'm sure you'r nerd enough. It just takes a bit of getting used to the fast gameplay, atleast that's what I have experienced. Don't give up!

 

/Vulg

[Marqq]

It disturbs me that there is a Twilight question on a nerdy quiz but other than that it's pretty fun.

 

Hey, leave some room for chick-nerds! (they exist, theoretically)

[Leader Bee]

Time limit bothers me, other than that it's a good quiz. And yes... a bit laggy on "less capable" machines.

[Ringer]

Hey, leave some room for chick-nerds! (they exist, theoretically)

 

Oh they exist. My fiancee is a huge nerd, I just don't consider Twilight to be in the zone of nerdiness.

[Vulgaris]

Hi Leader Bee, Thanks for the comment. Yeah, the timelimit does make it alot harder, but we had to implement that to avoid people just googling all the answers. Wouldn't be much game in that. But it also makes the game more strategic, as you will need to consider how much time you'll spend on answering a question - sometimes, if you'r in a good streak, it may actually be worth spending those extra seconds on it if you'r in doubt.

 

The game is relatively hard, and its difficult to get up on the top 100 now because of some REALLY nerdy people out there, but it's actually alot more fun to compete against your friends, which is what the friends highscore list is for. Each friend is also able to help you in the game with those difficult questions!

 

So remember to hook up with some friends!

 

/Vulg

[imatfaal]

Hi Vulg

 

Quite like the game - less liked the way it dropped 40-50 emails into my inbox yesterday. . Think you might have a little bit of an issue.

[Vulgaris]

Hi imatfaal,

 

Yes indeed. That was a horrible incidense, and I apology sincerely for the inconvenience! There was an issue with the servers which made the payout loop multiple times - something that just should never happen. The mass email functions are suspended for the time being, and won't be up again before everything is 100% ok.

 

Thanks for taking it this nicely, I feel truly horrible about it.

 

/Vulg

[Vulgaris]

Hi everyone,

 

I can now proudly say that Game of Nerds has been launched for its second season, complete with more coins and more ways to spend them; Fancy hire Einstein to help you with difficult questions? Or maybe Edwin Hubble? Or maybe you prefer spending a few coins boosting your leadership abilities and have your whole team perform better?!

 

We have received a large bunch of questions over the last month and a half, making the game even more challenging and interesting, and I wish to say thanks to anyone here who contributed!

 

Unfortunately, it seems that the number of questions in the science categories are starting to lack behind the litterature, movies and computer categories, and being a science nerd, I really can't let that past me... Therefore, I'm hoping I can lure some of you clever heads into helping me bump up the science categories and thereby make the game even more interesting (atleast to me and you!).

 

Hope to see you in Game of Nerds!

 

/Vulg