Sproc's History Quiz

But a deep experience is rather slow. Going to Antarctica to find a meteorite, bringing it into a laboratory, cutting it open, and analyzing it takes many months. Even in a virtual environment, it takes a few hours.

However, there are other ways to memorize without a lot of revision. Memory champions use memory tricks to achieve their astonishing feats. Using memory palaces, they can memorize a deck of cards in under a minute (the world record is just under 14 seconds) or dozens of fictitious dates in only five minutes (the world record is 241) and remember them for a few days. If you use Spark without memory tricks, memorizing 241 events will take about two hours.

We decided to create a game that combines AI, deep experiences, and memory tricks. We chose a professional game engine (Unity) to build Sproc’s History Quiz. In this game, you are in charge of a time machine and get to travel to hundreds of historic events. The game is full of imagery, fun facts, and narratives. It also allows you to create and share simple memory palaces. In a few hours of effortless gameplay, you can memorize details and dates of hundreds, if not thousands, of historic events—and remember them for many years.