Book of Mormon Trivia: I-phone App
Sticky Buzz Software recently released a new BoM-themed I-phone app called BoM Trivia
They were nice enough to send me a free promotion code for their, normally, 99 cent app. so that I could review it. I'm always hoping to support independent Mormon developers so here's my review!
The determining factor of quality in any quiz game rests on its questions. Quiz developers have a fine balance to strike between writing questions that challenge the player (ie: No questions like: "Nephi said he would go and _______") and the opposing side of providing questions that no one could possibly recall from memory (ie: No questions like: "How many footnotes are on pg. 200 of the English Standard Works edition of the BoM?")
BoM Trivia does a good job of walking this fine line and provides an experience I found challenging, but not frustrating. I saw myself improving with multiple play-throughs and actually learning a few interesting tidbits about the Book of Mormon. Don't get me wrong, there are some pretty hard questions, but you never feel like any questions are impossible or the result of the creators stretching for content.
I don't know how many total questions are available in the quizes but the creators boast over 200 and "more on the way." This provides a good amount of re-play value, but ultimately, as with any quiz game, you will hit a wall where you know everything the game offers. I've been playing for 2 days now and still can't get 100% on all 3 game modes, so I'd guess you'll get a few good weeks of enjoyment for your 99 cents. Hopefully the authors live up to their claim of providing more well-thought-out questions! Currently there's a nice mix of scripture mastery, church history, and general trivia questions for variety on each play-through.
The best feature of the game is the final review screen which highlights the questions you missed in red and lets you click them to see both your wrong answer and the correct answer.
I did find a few bugs and some frustrations. The timed sections were a little too short. I'm a fast reader and I still ran out of time on a few play-throughs. Another frustration was that the screen scroll resets to the top of the list on the review page every time you click a question to review it so you have to scroll a lot to get back to the section of the page you were at before the question details popped up. One bug I encountered showed up after finishing a quiz, I clicked to go to the question review list and it showed up blank.
Despite these small annoyances I would say that the app is definitely worth the 99 cent price tag and 99 cents is a small price to pay to support the Mormon game development cause. Games are a great engaging way to show people what we believe and can be a great tool for other members of the flock.
Thats a good game definatly worth buying if you like quizzes. ~ Submitted By: Micheal Maroon - 03/20/2010
@ StickyBuzz: No prob, thanks for making the app!
@ Alice: I miss you guys too, but loving Nevada! ~ Submitted By: Nick - 11/05/2009
Hey, thanks for the great review! We already have an update on the way to address those bugs, and we are also increasing the timer length as well.
Hope you enjoy! ~ Submitted By: Stickybuzz - 11/05/2009
Nick, you are missed around here! You look great--Nevada works for you! Thanks for following my blog! ~ Submitted By: Alice Osborne - 11/05/2009
