The competition is on: put your name to the highscore list!

So, we have had the online highscore list going on in DPAQ from the start. Already there are people from all over the world: from over 15 countries in Europe, North-America, South-America and Africa. Check out the situation from the game (global highscores) or from the highscores-website.

Milan from Germany leads with amazing 2848 points. Also Weissheim from Great Britain and Ulf from Germany have managed to reach 2500 points, which is truly a top score. Nine other players have topped 2000 points; vmfireball from Hungary, Akis from Greece, Soren Mogensen from Denmark, Solitair from Germany, Ciouo from Sweden, jeppe from Denmark, speed king from Norway, nikow from Finland and LordHypnos from The Netherlands.

Generally, over 2000 points seem to require 27 correct answers from the 30 available. However, vmfireball managed to get over 2k with only 25 correct, which is because he or she was able to click on the correct answer so fast. Also Ciouo did an excellent 2300 points with just 26 correct - very fast answering! At the same time Akis had to settle for 2227 points, even though he/she answered 29/30 correct. You may think this is unfair, but it really isn't. Everyone can use e.g. Google or their own record collection to check out the correct answers and in this way, secure 30/30. But the game doesn't reward the player from this activity! You actually need to know the answers when the game asks the questions, and when you know them, you can also answer fast and get more points. Of course checking Google is allowed and one can learn things, and then try to achieve a better score next time - this is even recommended. Listen more DP music, learn all kind of information about it, get a better score in the game - simple! But not during one game: you don't have time to find out the facts, you must already know them. Thus, this quiz measures DP-knowledge - not internet browsing capabilities like many other general quizzes.

There is still much room in the list, so go and put your name up there if you still haven't. The game shows the top-100, but the website (link above) has rooms for thousands of players.

Reactions from the first 5 days

The first days online have been pretty active for DPAQ. Generally, the players found it quite fun and entertaining to play (as our poll here seems to indicate as well), and some even got hooked in its simple but addictive gameplay- great! =)

Here's some of the feedback from DPAQ-players:

"This was real fun!"
"Cool! Just playing it, great work! Good fun!"
"Great!"
"All in all it's a really fine game."
"It's good fun and I'll keep on trying to break my current record!"
"Phew, I finally managed to get ahead of Nikow in the hi score list - - I think I'm getting addicted."
"I don't wanna know how many hours I played this game today."
"Thanks for this nice game!"
"Great quiz."

The critic and suggestions for improvement have been focusing around the scoring system, replayability of the quiz, the role of luck in the game, loading times of the sound clips, question formulation and about what exactly is a correct answer in some special cases.

For some players it has been a bit of a barrier to dowload the game and extract the zip file, but hopefully these technical obstacles wouldn't be too big. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask about them here.

There have been some 90 scores submitted into the global hi-score list, which is viewable from the game and also from this website. Today I cleaned it up a bit, so that for some players who have like dozen of scores there, only the best ones were kept. Anyway, don't hesitate to submit as many results as you like!