Auralquiz(Games Other)
A simple music quiz game for GNU/Linux and other systems. The game plays short pieces of music files from the player's chosen folders, and presents a question and several answers about the current song. The fastest the answer, the more points the player receives. Up to 8 people can play, in a turn-based mode. In normal mode, the player is presented with a question and 4 buttons to answer. A small clip from one of the music files is played, and the player has a few seconds to answer by clicking the correct button, or pressing 1, 2, 3 or 4 (or Z/X/C/V, 7/8/9/0, U/I/O/P) in the keyboard. In the highest difficulty level, instead of having the buttons, the player must type the answer. Symbols like "!", "-", "." etc are filtered out, and it's not case sensitive, so it's a little easier to answer correctly. It is important that the music files are correctly tagged. The game is quite complete already, but there are a few more options to be added, and some rough edges to polish. The screenshots are dark due to my system's color configuration, but the game will use the user's color config. Auralquiz uses Phonon for sound output. The VLC backend is recommended. Gstreamer-backend works mostly fine. YMMV depending on Phonon version, etc. If you use MP3 files, make sure your selected backend can play the MP3 format. Check the README file for details. You can see an old screencast of Auralquiz v0.7 running under KDE Plasma, here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP25jnsdDr4] Feedback is, of course, welcome :) The logo is based on one of the Oxygen Icons from http://www.oxygen-icons.org/, which are licensed under LGPL. Auralquiz binaries are available in the repositories of Mageia, Debian and Ubuntu, among others. There are also older packages for some other distributions: Slackware: http://slackware.org.uk/slacky/slackware-13.37/games/auralquiz/ Mandriva: http://mrb.mandrivausers.ro/index.php?search_for=auralquiz&search_submit=Search openSuse: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dvlara/openSUSE_12.1/
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