De C-Factor test van Trouw was een groot succes, meer dan 100.000 mensen hebben de test ondertussen gedaan en de uitkomsten hebben tot veel discussies geleid. Zowel in huiselijke als in wetenschappelijke kringen.
Om de discussies aan de keukentafel wat makkelijker te maken hebben ze bij Trouw de C-Factor test omgezet naar een heus bordspel! Het bordspel is gratis te downloaden en uit te printen. Veel speelplezier!
Trouw (the Dutch national newspaper) released a new QuizControl powered quiz this week. The questions are made by academics and therefor this test isn’t your silly fun profile test. No, this test really tells you how fundamentalistic you are!
Not only is it fun to do this quiz, the results will also be used for scientific research about how fundamentalistic Dutch people really are.
The quiz got featured in the newspaper and on national television and we are pleased to see our servers holding up nicely. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week we changed our website content management system from a standard Wordpress installation to Wordpress MU. Sadly the move broke our blog, but yesterday we managed to find the error. So the blog is back online for all to enjoy!
Christmas is already a distant memory, but we just got some stats in from our Christmas Santa Quiz we made for Spil Games. The first 3 weeks before Christmas more than 2.4 million people played the quiz. Incredible results!
Want to find out what type of Santa you are? You can play the quiz here!
Last year we did some really cool projects with QuizControl, we made quizzes that were played by millions of players but also by ministers and even the prime-minister of the Netherlands! We also improved our service and had the pleasure to work with a couple of really interesting new clients.
2010 promises to become an even better year for QuizControl, since from this year on we decided to make QuizControl into an official company. Michiel Rademakers, Ammar Tijani and Martijn Reintjes founded QuizControl Limited in the first week of januari 2010. Besides giving the company more focus, this also allows us to work with more clients and partner with other companies. As you can see 2010 is looking good!
Last week we released a Christmas quizgame on the Spil Portals. So you want to be a Santa asks you 12 questions in 3 categories about your Santa Skills and calculates what kind of Santa you are. This fun test brings you right into the Christmas Spirit!
So you want to be a Santa is localized in 12 languages, features great original artwork and animations, a custom made original soundtrack and is linked to Facebook and Twitter!
QuizControl wishes you a merry Christmas and much gamefun in the next year! Read the rest of this entry »
Last week we launched our own social media API to easily link our quizzes to the different social networks around there. The first execution of it will be launched this friday in the Santa Quiz for Spil Games. It will feature instant postings to your Twitter stream and your Facebook wall. Next up will be integration of LinkedIn and the local Dutch social network Hyves.
This is just the first step in our mission of social quiz connectivity, so stay tuned!
The Chocoholic test we made for Spil Games has been live for a month and counted almost 4 million plays. This made the game one of the top ranking newcomers on their game platforms for the month of november.
“The Chocoholic Test is a very fun game but also a bit scary because of the confronting results.” according to one of the players.
A very cool quiz concept launched by Orange UK to promote the Moterola DEXT, their new smartphone targeted to social media addicts. The quiz Friend-O-Meter taps into your Facebook, Twitter and/or MySpace account and pulls out detailed information about your friends. It turns this information into questions about age, status updates and it even pulls in photo’s and asks you about those. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes you have to think of some quiz ideas fast, maybe you need to pitch them to a client, or you maybe you are organizing a quiz night. Fact is, you need a good idea but you don’t want to use those boring standard quiz topics. So to help you out, here are ten original quiz ideas you can impress your players with. Read the rest of this entry »