DataArt Skillotron

Skillotron is an online quiz, with its help it is possible to check level of proficiency in technologies, to ask questions and to compare the achievements to results of other participants. The website of the project is skillotron.com.

Questions in Skillotron are broken into 16 categories and several tens of subcategories: from programming languages to technologies of project management and history IT. As of November, 2017, in Skillotron base — more than 2000 questions.

Each game session consists of 10 questions on one of technologies. If the player answers correctly at least 8 of 10 questions, it moves to the following level with more difficult tasks. For the correct answers and upon transition to each following level points are added. All data are displayed in profiles of participants.

Initial questions for Skillotron were prepared by technical experts of DataArt. At this Skillotron — the platform, open for users, built on UGC (user-generated content). Users can not only offer changes or state claims to the existing questions, but also create own tasks.

At any level of a game the user can share game achievements in Facebook and compare the results to results of other players, including to achievements of friends from social networks.

Game completely of an angloyazychn has also no national or geographical binding.

As of November, 2017, in Skillotron daily play more than 800 people, and the total quantity of users exceeds 6 thousand.

2017: The feature to discuss issues is added

The DataArt company, the global technology consultant, announced on November 20, 2017 updating of the gaming platform for IT specialists of Skillotron in which users can check the knowledge, answering questions and also to set own to other players.

An opportunity to discuss those questions which the player already answered is implemented. Comments — the most available user content. The comment to leave easy — this impulsive solution is frequent. Founders of Skillotron calculate that comments and discussions around questions will become for a part of users the first step on the way to becoming authors of the platform. Inventing of questions — more labor-consuming form of content which demands from the user of bigger motivation and bigger emotional connection with a game.

Earlier users could leave complaints to questions, sending to a claim to moderators through a special form — post-moderation of content was a part of the concept. For the first three months from the moment of public start of Skillotron users sent hundreds of complaints — fair and is not present, the tasks concerning an essence and their form. An overwhelming part of these messages in the provided version of Skillotron will become public, it will be possible to respond to them, noted in DataArt.

Except an opportunity to comment, in Skillotron the feature to throw down a challenge to the friends on Facebook is added.

And the third important change — the rating of all users on all categories of questions on the homepage of a game.