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Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography (cseweb.ucsd.edu)
48 points by lducas 4390 days ago
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I like it so far. Do you already have plans for translating? I think I can read just enough french to understand what is going on and I'm interested in helping out.
I hope you do! This project sounds cool, and if you and/or others produce an English version, we'll waive the rule on duplicates and welcome a repost.

It seems like this work would best be discussed here once the entire community is able to play the game.

Thank you for the encouragement, and waiving the rules...

The game has just been released in French (36 hours) after two years of work; but yes I'm already thinking about translation...

Unfortunately, for budget reasons, the game wasn't originally designed for multilingual support; so there is work not only for translators but also for developers. The good news is that it is open source so we can make that happen.

Another solution might be to crowd-fund the translation and leave the multilingual support to Digitalcusine who know well its own source code and have done amazing work so far (especially considering budget constraints).

Anyway; I'm open to any suggestions and help on the matter; please email me if you'd like personnaly to help out so we can organize ourselves !

Thanks again. - L

Just finished the game, it was really good.

It would help if you can open the issue tracker on this project, like this we can discuss new features such as translations. For that go to settings and tick the checkbox for issues.

Was just investigating the source code and noticed it's a fork from daformat, would it be better to open issues here?
Sorry for catching up late, definitely, please submit issues to my fork so we can all keep up with what's going on.

Thanks for the help and comments guys, nice to see Cryptris getting some supporters on HN.

Opened the issue tracker in the InriaMescsi fork.
Having to translate from French does increase the difficulty.
yeah, that was kind of a blow to me...
This game is quite confusing even if you speak French.

Somehow playing a variant of tetris explains public key crypto.

The relations between the game and public key crypto are explained here (if you speak french...) :

http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-1-2-Comprendre-une-des.h...

and

http://images.math.cnrs.fr/Cryptris-2-2-Les-dessous.html

It's quite clever, but I think the pedagogical function is questionable, because I don't think that the geometric interpretation will be particularly clear to players who haven't read these articles.

The idea of the game seems to be to show people that public-key cryptography exists and can work, yet the actual method of creating the public and private keys (and the fact that the public key can be created easily given the private key and not vice versa) won't be especially obvious.

Indeed it was our idea; with the opportunity for the most curious players to learn more about Crypto, Algorithms and Math. The articles (and the whole "documentation" menu) are for the curious kids (of all ages...)

After 24h hours the game is already a success. I will for sure put a lot of effort in getting the game translated !

Two editions pads for collaborative edition (Thx Framapad !) have been opened for the translation of the explanation articles to English: https://cryptris.framapad.org/1 and https://cryptris.framapad.org/2 .

The bug tracker has been opened on github to discuss implementation of multilingual support.

Merci !

I block twitter.com and Google Analytics, and this thing refuses to load. Well, you lost these eyeballs.
Can you please specify what is your config (including how you actually block those) so we can fix it?
Sorry about that; working on it. Hopefully the english version will be able to skip those loading.
download the source and open index.html
Stalls after clicking "suite" of creating the public key