Planeto is a startup company operating at the intersection of knowledge and entertainment. The long-term objective of the company is to build the world’s personal knowledge graph, showing the relationships between users and their knowledge. The company wanted us to develop a fun quiz app with a purpose to measure the knowledge of the users.
Since most quiz games are played alone or against each other over the internet, we wanted to create a social quiz game were you can play against your friends and family in the same room. We wanted to combine classic board-games with a digital solution.
We ended up with “Quiz War”, a game where you battle against your friends by answering questions to protect/conquer “countries”. By starting a game on the iPad, a request will be sent to the players you want to play with. Every player get’s the chance to pick their four favorite subjects before starting the battle. The positions are set randomly on the map. To challenge your friends countries you tap the one you want to defeat. The two people who’s supposed to battle gets the questions through their phones. The winner of 5 questions wins or keeps the country. The game is over when one player has taken a continent. We ended up with a concept and finished design, we also made a real board-game out of it.