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<\/p>\nAs part of the Interference birthday celebration last year we held a livestream party on our Mixer channel \u2013 and one of the things we tried was an interactive quiz. It was just about the game itself \u2013 as that is what we were celebrating \u2013 but it worked so well we thought \u201cWhy not hold a weekly pub quiz online \u2013 using Mixplay?\u201d<\/p>\n
Thus, Zeitgeist was born! It\u2019s the pub quiz you can join in from your sofa \u2013 you don\u2019t even have to take your slippers off!<\/p>\n
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Using the mighty power of Mixplay and Mixer<\/a>\u2019s sub-second latency we could ask general knowledge questions and give viewers 10 seconds to answer \u2013 so there was no chance for cheating by giving them time to google anything! If we had used any other streaming platform \u2013 where the delay can be 6-7 seconds – this would not have worked, as by the time they had read the question and answers they would have run out of time to press the correct answer. So, the way it works is that we have 5 rounds of general knowledge \u2013 each with 5 questions. Each question is multiple choice \u2013 so you choose the correct answer (hopefully!) from four possible options. At the end of each round there is a leaderboard \u2013 and as we go through the rounds the scores are accumulated onto the main leaderboard \u2013 so we can see who has got the highest score so far.<\/p>\n It is hosted by myself and Nathan and we enjoy the interaction in the chat, the banter between the quizzers and the friendly competitiveness it fosters. We have got an audience of all ages \u2013 from all over the world, and we like to think that the quiz brings whole new audience to Mixer. It is pretty exciting most weeks as we quite often get to the final question to decide the winner. One week we even had a dead heat between two of the regulars. We think that it is the first live quiz on the Mixer platform.<\/p>\n We feel that there are a lot of people who would love to join an actual pub quiz \u2013 but can\u2019t go out for various reasons (kids, disability, no friends available) so can join in from wherever they are from any device. Everyone loves a quiz but instead of watching The Chase or Who Wants to be a Millionaire and just shouting at the TV \u2013 you can actually take part. It\u2019s like social television – what\u2019s not to love?<\/p>\n To join in go to our Mixer channel at:\u00a0https:\/\/mixer.com\/interference<\/a><\/p>\n In our next blog post we\u2019ll be talking about how we now build interactive features into our games from the start \u2013 rather than adding them in as an afterthought. We will show the example of our latest game in progress \u2013 Rogue Drones<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As part of the Interference birthday celebration last year we held a livestream party on our Mixer channel \u2013 and one of the things we tried was an interactive quiz. It was just about the game itself \u2013 as that is what we were celebrating \u2013 but it worked so well we thought \u201cWhy not … Continue reading “Interactive Streaming- Part 2”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,12,13,33],"tags":[35,34,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOriginally, we saw it as a way of marketing Interference \u2013 as the way we chose the topics for the 5 rounds of general knowledge was by picking our favourite 5 drawings from each week\u2019s games. So if someone had drawn a particularly awesome seagull, for example, we might have a round on sea birds. ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.wearecentrifuge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/photobomb1-300x257.jpg\")
Part of the fun during the quiz is the players guessing what the next round is about from the picture at the start!
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