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QuizUp

QuizUp is a mobile game developed by Iceland-based Plain Vanilla Games. The game is a mobile trivia app similar to the game Trivial Pursuit. QuizUp is a single-player game in which one user competes against another during seven rounds of timed multiple-choice questions of various topics. There are over 680 total categories of topics available to users to choose from and all the questions are voluntarily submitted by content contributors. Most categories are available in different languages.

Released: 6 March 2014
Platforms: Android Windows iOS
Genres: Board game Puzzle Quiz
Developers: Plain Vanilla Games
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer
Perspective: Text
Themes: Educational
Country: Iceland

About

QuizUp is a discontinued mobile game originally developed and published by Iceland-based Plain Vanilla Games and later operated by Glu Mobile. The game was a mobile trivia app similar to the game Trivial Pursuit. QuizUp was a multiplayer game where one user competes against another in seven rounds of timed multiple-choice questions of various topics. There were over 1,200 total topics available to users to choose from, and all the questions were voluntarily submitted by content contributors. Most topics were available in several different languages.

Keywords

online
pop culture reference
matchmaking

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Gameplay

Users started a game by choosing a topic of interest from over 1000 available official categories in addition to custom topics created by users.

After the user picked a topic, they had the ability to either challenge a friend to a match or be paired against a random player. Users had the option of signing into the app through a social media platform such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ which allowed the user to see current friends who are using the app, invite friends to join them on the app, or challenge their friends to a game. Users also could choose to sign into QuizUp with an email address and not connect with a social media site. Players had the option of choosing to play with a friend or with a random stranger who may be in another country.

Development

QuizUp was initially released for iOS in November 2013. Plain Vanilla Games released an Android version in March 2014.

As of May 2014, QuizUp had 20 million users and had raised over $26 million from venture capital investments. Over a billion matches had been played in over 197 countries by March 2014. The company claims that users play an average of 40 minutes each day. On 30 September 2015, Plain Vanilla Games announced that they had reached a deal with Universal Television, the production arm of NBC, for a 10-episode television game show based on the app.