Take On Jeopardy! Champ Ken Jennings in Simulated Head-to-Head Trivia Battles
SEATTLE, WA – March 14, 2013 – FilmWise, LLC and OtherWise Games, LLC have teamed up with trivia wunderkind and author Ken Jennings for their new iOS game Trivia Death Match with Ken Jennings. In the game, players will take on the 74-time Jeopardy! champion in simulated real-time challenges to see if they can out-trivia the trivia expert!
How does it work? 1,000 trivia questions were written and grouped into 20-question quizzes spanning a wide variety of subjects. Ken was taken to a secret “testing facility,” where he was given a special version of the app which would record all of his times and scores for every question. Hours later, Ken finished the final quiz and handed over the device, which now contained all of the essential data.
This data was plugged into the final version of the app, which creates the opportunity to simulate real-time head-to-head Trivia Death Matches. As players engage in battle, they will see their avatar answering questions along with Ken, and they can track their progress and Ken’s progress with separate columns of skulls which light up each time a question is answered.
In addition to battling with Ken, players can see how they stack up against their friends by logging into their Facebook account. Players will be able to see all of their friends’ avatars and scores for each quiz, so they will know how they fare against each other as well as against Ken. Let the trash talking begin!
About Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings took the trivia world by storm when he won Jeopardy! 74 times in a row in 2004. Since then, he has become a best-selling author with Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs; Ken Jennings’s Trivia Almanac: 8,888 Questions in 365 Days; Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks; and his latest book Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids, which was published by Scribner in December, 2012. Ken lives outside of Seattle, Washington, with his wife, Mindy, and his son Dylan and daughter Caitlin, to whom he gives only the best advice.
About FilmWise, LLC
FilmWise was created in 2001 when it launched filmwise.com, a website devoted to movie trivia. FilmWise is best known for its Invisibles, which are movie screen shots in which actors have been digitally removed from their clothing, making it appear as if they are invisible. Invisibles have been featured in hundreds of publications around the world, as well as in the popular trivia game Scene It?. They are now available in app form in their Movie Invisibles app for iPhone, which launched in 2012.
About OtherWise Games, LLC
OtherWise Games was founded in 2010 and is dedicated to creating quality games for the mobile marketplace. Their first app MovieCat!, released in September, 2010, has become a fan favorite and a critical success, being named to PCMag.com’s list of top 25 iPhone games in 2012, as well as winning 148apps.com’s coveted Best App Ever Award in the trivia category.
