Who are you?

by martin on 2010/12/03

We’re right now developing something we call a Self Quiz (a.k.a. Cosmo Quiz or Personality Quiz),  in essence a type of quiz that is focused on determining (for example) the personality of  a player, rather than testing knowledge of a specific topic. A typical example found on Facebook is ‘Which Star Wars character of the light side are you?

The first hard-coded test of a Planeto self quiz

The first hard-coded test of a Planeto self quiz

These quizzes are not (and will never be) at the core of the Planeto experience, but we decided to add them for two specific reasons:

  1. Many people, including us, think these quizzes are often fun; and
  2. They can be very viral, spreading quickly between friends on Facebook. It’s a perfect way to get people introduced to Planeto — they get into the game through a Self Quiz, and then hopefully we can get them started on the deeper Planeto experience. Sneaky, aren’t we! ;)

And of course, anyone can create their own Self Quizzes as well. Hopefully we can deploy this live soon, maybe already next week. Stay tuned!

By the way, we’re a little unsure about what to call this type of quiz. Right now we’re calling it a Self Quiz internally, and use ‘Personality Quiz’ in the interface, but that doesn’t feel completely correct since it can be about much more than personality. Any suggestions?

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