WHAT HAPPENS BEHIND THE SCENES

It can take ages to create hundreds of questions and answers for your Quiz Night.

You probably think you can do it in a couple of days with the help of internet. That’s what I thought too.

This is how it usually goes:

You hop on the internet and do a quick search to find a list of free questions and answers to download.

You spend a few hours on that but soon you realize that the quality is not great, so you decide that it’s better to come up with your own ones.

You take pen and paper and start writing. You feel so inspired and determined and you write a bunch of random questions.

However after a while, you run out of ideas and the only possible option seems to go back to internet again and start searching for inspiration.

The process is quite tedious:

You have to think about a question, then verify the information and write a clear explanation. And you have to do this for every single question.

Soon you realize that you are going to spend weeks doing research as for the game to be interesting it needs to have a good amount of questions and answers. And not only that, questions should be challenging and interesting, you cannot just have boring and easy questions like: “What is the capital of France?”

And this is not the end, you also need to have different topics and split your questions into different levels of difficulty so that the game is challenging for the player.

Questions usually should be easy at the beginning and they increase in difficulty as the player jumps into different levels. It’s quite hard to define what “easy”, “medium” or “hard” difficulty is.

Let’s face it. Creating a quiz game is not that easy.

Specially, because it requires one thing that most of us usually don’t have:

Time.

And also, the whole process of creating hundreds of questions can be quite monotonous so it is very easy to give up.

I understand how you feel. I’ve been there myself