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Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by lducas »

dang wrote: post #9
bgutierrez wrote: post #7

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

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

#12

Post by schoen »

lducas wrote: post #10
schoen wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 give…

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 !

I think it's excellent to try to find new ways to explain these concepts. Do you think there is a path for an ordinary player of this game to come to perceive more about the properties of public and private keys, and especially how the two are related to one another?

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by lducas »

schoen wrote: post #12
lducas wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 !

I think it's excellent to try to find new ways to explain these concepts. Do you think there is a path for an ordinary player of this game to come to perceive more about the properties of public and private keys, and especially how the two are related to one another?

Well, the fact is the player builds itself the public key from the private key at the beginning of the game, somehow choosing itself the randomness used in the key generation process. I was hopnig this gives a bit of an idea that public key is derived from private key.

In that sense the public key is a "mix" of the private key. Then the cipher is the message plus a "mix" of the public key. By transitivity the cipher is the message plus a "mix" of the private key; and the private key is simple enough so that it can be "unmixed"...

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by gnocchi »

lducas wrote: post #11
dang wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. An…

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.

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by gnocchi »

gnocchi wrote: post #14
lducas wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. An…

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?

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by lducas »

gnocchi wrote: post #14
lducas wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. An…

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.

Opened the issue tracker in the InriaMescsi fork.

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by lducas »

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 !

Re: Show HN: Cryptris, a video game on cryptography

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Post by daformat »

gnocchi wrote: post #15
gnocchi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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