Tue, Sep 16, 2008 | 12:55 BST
Buzz! man was worried user-gen quizzes would bring “random nonsense”
Speaking to ThreeSpeech, Relentless boss David Amor has admitted that opening Buzz! up to user-generated quizzes with Buzz! Quiz TV wasn’t without its potential pitfalls.
“I was worried that we’d get lots of random nonsense, like ‘what’s my favourite colour?’, or ‘how badly can I swear in a quiz and get away with it?’, but actually people have taken it seriously,” he said.
“They’ve come up with proper quizzes that are fun to play. It works really well.”
Amor said he’d been surprised by the inventiveness of some of the submissions.
“The one’s I like – and this is the best thing about giving people tools – are where they’ve taken it in a direction I just wouldn’t have expected,” he added.
“One I liked was the memory quiz – where the first question was ‘My house is red, my garden is blue, I have a dog named Rover and the sun comes out on a Tuesday’, then it says ‘Press button to continue’, and then the next question is, ‘What colour is my garden?’, then later, ‘What did I ask you in question two?’. It’s not strictly a quiz, but it works.”
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5 comments
#1
Blerk
16/09/08, 1:22 pm
I think it’s worth the risk. Awesome thing to allow in a quiz game. Microsoft’s new Scene It really ought to have done the same.
#2
Tiger Walts
16/09/08, 1:26 pm
The best way to manage user created content is to put in peer-review tools. That way the system takes care of nonsense entries and give feedback to the creator so they may improve and resubmit it.
#3
No_PUDding
16/09/08, 1:46 pm
If there’s people inventive on this… I can’t wait for LBP.
#4
pjmaybe
16/09/08, 2:06 pm
I’m still reeling from the shock that the Buzz man is Jason Donovan.
I never got into any of the buzz games but grabbed the PSP version as a freebie.
#5
No_PUDding
16/09/08, 2:13 pm
All I know is the families who liked Buzz and Eyetoy and now on the Wii.
I am not saying they won’t upgrade to the PS3 when the price comes down, but that’s certainly the Wii’s domain now, of buy-and-use-once videogames.