the sassy trivia game by hai!touch Studios
Salty Trivia is a sassy party trivia game with full voice acting. Use the Lifesaver to your advantage, and don’t talk over the host’s snide remarks!
Accessibility Update is now available!
Episodes 7 to 12 have been written, but progress on the editing and programming has been slow. Meanwhile, we will present an Accessibility Update to cap off the year 2024.
Large subtitle options — While conducting user testing (which just consisted of me showing the game to people at a bar on my smartphone) I realized that, while most of the menu's text was about the right size to be read on a phone held at arm's length or a bit farther, the closed captions were too small.
In response, large subtitles are now selectable in the options menu, where you used to only be able to hide it! Currently, the text size is 1.5× the default size.
Long or deactivated timers — Sometimes during user testing, people missed the instructions and I had to explain the rules by talking to them. While it may be best remedied by better writing that presents only pertinent info when it's needed (and also more attentive players), it’s also true that people may be playing with a control scheme that feels alien to them.
In response, timers can be extended to 30 seconds in all question types, or turned off altogether! The problem with it is, I only composed 15 seconds of think music, so you'll have to endure 15 seconds of silence if people decide to sit out a question with "long timers" activated.
I anticipate this option to also be useful to people playing the game using the hai!touch Gate webapp using a screenreader. One point of regret about the design of the game is that I did not record the options for each round of Like It or Leave It, so the information on what the 4th option says is only accessible visually.
Long typing timers — The above timer options do not apply to Thousand-Question Questions and All Outta Salts, which still always last 1 minute. However, user testing indicated that the default typing timers may be inaccessible to much of the public, including those playing on hai!touch Gate. Now, typing timers may be doubled or extended to 5 minutes, which ought to be enough for everyone, unless they're phoning in through a telegram line and keying the answer in Morse Code.
There are also some non-accessibility-related updates:
A Russian localization of this game is underway by The Box! Visit their website for links to their official Discord, vKontakte, YouTube, and Boosty (donations) account.
The role of Candy Barre will be played by Maria Grasse (Мария Грассе), who previously voiced the host in their translation of FixyText.
Join the official hai!touch Studios Discord server to report question inaccuracies or just hang out.
If you appreciate the effort my team and I took in:
and more, please consider donating to support further development!
Note: Statistics are accurate as of Episode Pack 2.
Salty Trivia is available on the following platforms:
You can download all the non-browser versions from the
itch.io listing.
Up to 8 contestants can play, mixing-and-matching the following control schemes:
Up to 100 audience members can play along and have their score tracked.Control schemes
Spoilers! If you do not want to get these secret perks, and instead play the game legit, skip right ahead. Otherwise, click the button below.
To enter the cheat code menu, go to the title screen and press the following sequence of keys:
In the cheat code menu, you will see a list of togglable cheat codes that you have already unlocked.
(Cheat codes with a one-time effect will not be listed, and instead take effect upon entering the cheat code.)
To enter a cheat code, press →, press , or click the
description box on the left side of the menu.
Once you see an arcade machine on the screen, you may now enter the cheat code that you want to enter. Click on the button of the corresponding color on the screen, or press the following buttons:
(Blue) = ␣ /
(Green) = ⇑ /
(Red) = ↵ /
(Yellow) = Esc /
When you’re done, cursor left, or click on the joystick on the screen to return to the cheat list.
When togglable cheat codes are activated, nothing will count towards your achievements or high score. If you want to unlock achievements, please turn off all cheat codes.
The gameplay is based mainly on the You Don’t Know Jack series of games, as well as other trivia games. If you like this game, please support Jackbox Games’ official releases such as Jackbox Party Pack 1 and Pack 5. (Although if you’re here, you’re probably already a superfan, or a Jackbox Games lawyer preparing to send me a DMCA).
Salty Trivia with Candy Barre is released as free and open source software.
However, there are some restrictions. You may not use the code to impersonate us, or otherwise scam people. The recordings of our voices are available for ease of modification, but if you release a modification, you must replace all the provided voice files. In other words, the code is FOSS, but our branding and voices are not Creative Commons.