{"id":130,"date":"2008-11-23T14:36:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T21:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2011-08-17T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T22:13:03","slug":"stegavorto-the-game-that-came-to-james-in-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"StegaVorto: The Game that came to James in a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last tuesday night I had a dream&#8230; In this dream, Michael Sweet, frontman of 1980&#8217;s glam-rock hair-band &#8220;Stryper&#8221; appeared to me.. except he was wearing a business suit, and standing on the front lawn of a public library&#8230; and he challenged me to play a game, a strange game that I had never played before. When I awoke I knew that I had to program it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t518HNkKBf0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t518HNkKBf0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Your challenge is to discover secret messages embedded in the works of great authors.. Secrets that have been waiting all along for you to find&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: lightgreen;\"><big><a href=\"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/games\/stegavorto\/stegavorto.exe\">Download the Windows version of StegaVorto<\/a><\/big><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: lightblue;\"><big><a href=\"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/games\/stegavorto\/StegaVorto.dmg\">Download the Mac OS X version of StegaVorto<\/a><\/big><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: pink;\"><big><a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/miry\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/s\/stegavorto\/\">Debian packages (preliminary)<\/a><\/big><\/span> thanks to Miriam Ruiz<br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: lavender;\"><big><a href=\"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/games\/stegavorto\/Stegavorto-1.1.apk\">Android App (preliminary)<\/a><\/big><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: orange;\"><big><a href=\"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/games\/stegavorto\/stegavorto-src.tar.bz2\">Download the source-code of StegaVorto (Linux, BSD, Other)<\/a><\/big><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The source code is written using <a href=\"http:\/\/python.org\/\">python<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pygame.org\/\">pygame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively you can get the source code using Subversion to check out<\/p>\n<pre>svn:\/\/gilgamesh.HamsterRepublic.com\/hamster\/stegavorto<\/pre>\n<p>The source code is under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/old-licenses\/gpl-2.0.txt\">GPL<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>2008-11-24<\/strong>: Updated! Check out new features such as author portraits, difficulty levels, and visualization of missed letters.<br \/>\n<strong>2008-12-10<\/strong>: Updated! More polish on levels, added a victory screen when you complete a level, and default to full-screen<br \/>\n<strong>2008-12-23<\/strong>: Many thanks to pygame developer Ren\u00e9 Dudfield who discovered how to fix the music problem (not just for StegaVorto, but for all pygame games that play music the same way StegaVorto does on the Mac)<br \/>\n<strong>2011-08-17<\/strong>: Updated! Added an Android version. Removed the flakey picsearch feature, and replace it with additional joyous kittens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last tuesday night I had a dream&#8230; In this dream, Michael Sweet, frontman of 1980&#8217;s glam-rock hair-band &#8220;Stryper&#8221; appeared to me.. except he was wearing a business suit, and standing on the front lawn of a public library&#8230; and he challenged me to play a game, a strange game that I had never played before. 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