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KMessedWords is the simple mind-training word game
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KMessedWords is the game, that is based on the word/letter puzzles that I have played as a child. It is a very simple constructed game, with 3 dificulty levels of play, and each level deserves it's value. It is fully customizable game, that allows you to write in your own words, and set your own ‘look and feel’" of the game. It is aimed for children aged 10+, because of the dificulty, but, hey... Everyone is welcome to try. A word is picked in random, and displayed out in the messed order, with dificulty dependant on the chosen level. You have unlimited numbers of tryes, and the scores are kept.
A word is displayed in the random order of the letters... You guess the entire word at once. If you missed or guessed, the game will tell you.
IMPORTANT : Words are case sensitive, so, that ‘michelle’ is NOT ‘Michelle’...
Each time you start the game, the default level is easy.
There are 3 levels : easy, medium and hard:
As of all levels are completly customizable, you can set the level of difficulty of each level by yourself. And, as the dificulty level of the game is dependant on the length of the word, by default is this:
4 letters, everyday words
Special 4 letter words, and longer everyday words, up to 7 letters.
Words at least 6 letters long, both everyday words and special words.
After a word is guessed, you are prompted for another word and you can either use the Yes or No.
Button Bye!, just as well as Alt+F4, can exit the game at any time.
Help button will show you this window, containing all of the avaliable help.
Configure button hides 2 options inside: Configuration will popup the main configuration screen to setup the KMessedWords, and the Dictionary, where you will be able to write / erase the words.
Scores will show you top 10 scores.
On push on button Messup You will start the game.
Dropdown menu Level will set the level that you are playing.
KMessedWords allows you to change view of the application itself. You do that very simply by selecting which theme you want. just by clicking on the dropdown box. You can also select the parts, which you want to apply to the application; Weither this is just graphical buttons, background or both together, just select the checkboxes under theme name.
By default there is just one theme, called “default”. In some time, there will probably many more themes to be worked on, but created seperatly.
Due to some mismatched features and programming problems, the login window from the previous version of the game was dropped and replaced with the splash screen. But now changing users is almost easy as before. In the configuration window you just select the tab named User, change your name and press Ok.
To get to the word-editor, you need to choose Configure->Dictionary. For each level there is own list of the words, as for easy, medium and hard. The word editor is [for now?] just a plain text editor, that you just put words into them. The separator is a line divider, or press Enter.
The editor will refuse to read blank lines or lines with equal letters and characters. To save the words, just press OK or Save words. You don't need to be a superuser for the program to change the words, because the dictionary files are saved into local user configuration.
The KMessedWords' core is already built in full, for the reading / storing and messing up the words. Now my goal is to make the most easy to use, good looking graphical front-end for that. I am working on that as much as I can, but everything changes in non-stop action with my spare time. I still have some ideas, but I would really like any other opinions, too.
KMessedWords
Idea, main developer, graphics and maintainer: Primoz Anzur<zerokode@yahoo.com>
Contributors:
Coding help (engine creation): Waldo bastian <bastian@kde.org>
Coding help (includemoc and all that stuff...): Daniel Molkentin <molkentin@kde.org>
Coding help (helped making the KMessedWords workimg properly under KDE2 and KDE3): Haavard Froeiland <haavardf@operamail.com>
Moral support: Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annma@kde.org>
Documentation copyright 2001 Primoz Anzur and KDE Edutainment team<zerokode@yahoo.com>
This documentation is licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
This program is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
KMessedWords is part of the KDE project http://www.kde.org/.
KMessedWords can be found in the kdeedu package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main FTP site of the KDE project.
In order to successfully use KMessedWords, you need KDE 3 and Qt™ 3 on your system.
KMessedWords can be found on The KMessedWords home page.
In order to compile and install KMessedWords on your system, type the following in the base directory of the KMessedWords distribution:
% ./configure % make % make install
Since KMessedWords uses autoconf and automake you should have no trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.