Salty Trivia is a trivia game where the questions are ridiculous, but the answers are serious. It can be played locally, or online using a normal Web browser (like Jackbox games).
The game is written on Godot Engine v3.5.2.stable.official (a free and open source game engine), and implements a mix of features from You Don't Know Jack 2015, You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream, and several other You Don't Know Jack entries.
Instead of the Screw from the You Don't Know Jack series, this game implements an item called the Lifesaver, which acts similarly to the 50/50 in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, in that it eliminates two of the choices for yourself. It can be used once per player per game, except in question types that are not multiple-choice.
- Normal - A standard 4-choice question.
- LitErrata - A 4-choice question introduced by a complaint about a previously published question.
- Candy Trivia with Salty Barre - A 4-choice question where the question is related to candy, or it's linked to a dumb joke on a candy wrapper. Analogous to Cookie's Fortune Cookie Fortunes with Cookie "Fortune Cookie" Masterson from the 2011 series.
- Rage Against the Times with Ozzy - A 4-choice question where the question is presented as a skit with "Ozzy, our 'resident' Australian squatter" who is an old man who is angry about one thing or another. Analogous to Foggy Facts with Old Man from 2015, except our Old Man is way grumpier.
- Big Brain Storming - A 4-choice question where the question is presented as a mind map. The mind map consists of three threads of three items, the first item being the common thread. Players must figure out what that common thread is.
- Sorta Kinda - A quick-fire round where 7 items each have to be sorted into two categories (sometimes both). Basically DisOrDat with a different name.
- All Outta Salt - Given a category and a nonsense phrase, find the phrase with syllables that rhyme with it. (e.g. With the category "With what proper name does this rhyme?" and the nonsense phrase "Forge bubble the tush.", the answer would be "George W. Bush".) Basically a Gibberish Question.
- The Thousand-Question Question - A special question type where the prize money starts out at $1,000,000, but since the host takes time to read the whole question text, by the time you're allowed to buzz in, the prize money dwindles down to about $2,000 at best. First-come first-served; only one person can get the prize money. Inspired by The Two-Million-Dollar Question from the short-lived ABC TV show. The Lifesaver cannot be used on this question type, despite being a 4-choice question.
- Sugar Rush - A final round containing 6 phases with 6 options. Given the overall topic and the condition given each phase, each option must be selected or left alone; each correct inclusion or omission is rewarded, and each incorrect one is punished. Similar to Full Stream's Jack Attack, but with no time bonuses, scored more similarly to Trivia Murder Party's final round, and with only 6 phases instead of 7.
- Like It or Leave It - A final round containing 5 phases with 4 options each, the first 3 of which stay throughout the phases. Given the overall topic and the condition given each phase, each option must be selected or left alone; each correct inclusion or omission is rewarded, and each incorrect one is punished. Similar to Trivia Murder Party's final round, except for the gimmick that 3 of the options stay throughout the question, but the last option changes every phase.
The current public build is published on the Gotm webpage. Note that this version may not be the latest version with the latest features and question packs.
This game is released as free and open source software, which means that you are free to run the program, study and modify the program’s files, and redistribute the program whether modified or not. In order to achieve these freedoms, all the game’s code is open-source and visible on this repository.
However, this does not mean that the assets of this game are free of copyright. You may not use the code to impersonate us, or otherwise scam people. The music, voice assets, and graphical assets are available for ease of modification, but if you release a modification, you must replace all the provided voice files, unless you have the voice actors’ permission.
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Install the Godot Engine from the official website. As of writing this Readme file, the version used is 3.5 (non-Mono).
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Download or fork the repository, and open the folder once you've booted Godot.
To use your own question files, use the salty_data repository as a template. I don't recommend downloading the entire thing because it has hella WAV files and it takes space; just get everything except for the /q/ folder, and follow the tutorial on that repository.
To make your own episodes, go to the /ep/ folder. You will need to do two things:
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- Create a folder named as the ID of the episode.
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- Add the ID to
list.txt, which is the list of episodes to display in the episode select screen.
- Add the ID to
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- Within the episode folder, change the contents of
ep.gdcfgto list the question IDs to use, and any non-random voice lines to play. Non-random voice lines must be stored within the episode folder as well.
- Within the episode folder, change the contents of
To use a different phones-as-controller app and server, fork the haitouch-firebase repository and host it on your Firebase instance.
You will need to set up your own instance of Firebase Realtime Database and Firebase Web Hosting (if you don't want your controller app to interact with my game, or my controller app with your game). To do that, and change const firebaseConfig within public/index.html to make it connect to your database and not mine. Similarly, you will need to change const firebase_config within FirebaseManager.gd. To get the Firebase configuration data, please follow this official “Add Firebase to your JavaScript project” tutorial from Firebase.
This game supports 4 different control schemes.
Up to 4 players can control the game on a normal keyboard with a numpad, each player using a matrix of 6 keys. Assuming the keyboard layout to be US ANSI QWERTY, Player 1 uses QWE/ASD, Player 2 uses FGH/VBN, Player 3 uses UIO/JKL, and Player 4 uses 789/456 on the Numeric Keypad.
A standard Xbox 360-compatible gamepad can be used for up to 2 players.
When the player uses the whole controller, options are chosen with the ABXY buttons, and LB and RB are used for special purposes. The left stick is used for typing. This mode is compatible with most controllers.
When 2 players share the same controller, the left player chooses options with the D-Pad, and LT and LB are used for the L and R buttons, respectively. The left stick is used for typing. The right player chooses options with the ABXY buttons, and RB and RT are used for the L and R buttons, respectively. The right stick is used for typing.
This game involves some questions with free-response answers. There are 3 typing styles available:
- DaisyWheel - Based on a now-removed Steam Big Picture Mode feature. The joystick chooses between 9 pages of characters and each face button types in a different key. The fastest system once learned, but relatively difficult to get used to.
Note to localizers: Also requires multiple pages to use for any alphabet with more than 32 letters (such as Russian with 33 letters), and can only type a grand total of 64 different letters.
- Spiral - Swirl the joystick to seek forward and backward in the list of letters, and any face button types in the currently selected key. Moderately fast and easy to learn, but not as fast as DaisyWheel.
Note to localizers: You can expand this to support any number of letters, but there should be an exact multiple of 8 keys, including the copies of the space key after every loop.
- Grid - The old-fashioned method where the joystick is used to move the cursor on an old-fashioned gridwise table of letters. The slowest to type, but probably a method we've all used before.
Note to localizers: You will have to manually tweak a lot of stuff to change the number of keys. First, inside TypingHandler.tscn, you have to set config.KB_WIDTH and config.KB_HEIGHT to the desired grid size in the script TypingHandler.gd, and duplicate exactly config.KB_WIDTH * config.KB_HEIGHT - 4 copies of the key element inside $KB/Grid. You must now manually resize and reposition the Space and Submit keys, since they are not part of the grid, as well as the gamepad shortcut labels for Space, Submit, and Delete. Then and only then can you edit the variable config.kb_main to contain the character to input.
As an improvement to the official You Don't Know Jack games, the full question text and options text are displayed on the device, as well as the correctness of your choices.
If the player slots are full, or the game has already started, extra players can connect to a game as audience members and play along using the controller app.
To make this game also playable on phones, you can also play the game solo using the mouse cursor.