Comedy Central® The Most Important Trivia Game... Ever!

Overview

The Most Important Trivia Game…Ever! is a series of 10 real-time multiplayer mini-games created to promote The Daily Show with Jon Stewart during the congressional midterm elections in 2006. Using ElectroServer Comedy Central was able to support a substantial number of simultaneous players!

The Experience

In this game players chat and then create or join a game. Up to four players at a time compete in a series of randomly chosen mini-games until one player wins 3 of them. With unique mini-games such as Political Math and Correspondent Itinerary, The Most Important Trivia Game…Ever! has been a smash hit!

Solution

This game uses server-side Java plugins to drive the game logic. Players are rated using a modified version of the popular ELO rating system to encourage competition.