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Steno Arcade launches on Steam Early Access alongside crowdfunding campaign!

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For All To Play and The Open Steno Project are excited to announce that their free to play stenography and typing game, Steno Arcade, has launched on Steam Early Access alongside a Crowd Supply crowdfunding campaign.

Steno Arcade is a suite of four arcade games designed to teach and drill steno and keyboarding fundamentals in an immersive, addictive, responsive, and interactive way. Steno Arcade is 100% free and open source and works with any steno machine or keyboard.

Steno Arcade launches on Steam Early Access with one of four games in the suite, Steno Hero! Imagine your favourite rhythm games, but instead of pressing buttons that vaguely emulate the original instruments, you're hitting steno chords or keyboard keys to precisely and accurately produce the lyrics to your favourite music! It's like singing karaoke with your fingers! Steno Hero launches with four songs, with more to be added over time:

"I'm Your Moon" by Jonathan Coulton
"Mandelbrot Set" by Jonathan Coulton
"That Spells DNA" by Jonathan Coulton
"I Feel Fantastic" by Jonathan Coulton

Steno Arcade is being developed on top of the Godot open source game engine, and the source will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license upon completion.

Steno Arcade is a joint endeavor of For All To Play and The Open Steno Project. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Linas Mar 30, 2016
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I had to google for what a steno keyboard is, but now I am even more puzzled about how it works. Where would one even get such a thing?
Guest Mar 30, 2016
Quoting: LinasI had to google for what a steno keyboard is, but now I am even more puzzled about how it works. Where would one even get such a thing?

If you follow the rabbit hole deep enough: http://stenoknight.com/wiki/FAQ#What_is_Plover.3F

I don't think I'll be talking up stenography any time soon, but after just 15 minutes of playing the first song "I'm your Moon" (a great looking playlist by the way) I can get about 65-75% accuracy on a standard QWERTY keyboard and I can feel my speed improving.

I really like the idea of this, even if you only take it as a typing of the dead style game (which the negative reviews on steam seem to).
Nezchan Mar 30, 2016
I've had my fill of clerical and data entry work over the years, so I'd normally not even glance at this, but gaming to JoCo tunes? That's actually kind of appealing
stenoknight Apr 1, 2016
Heya! Founder of Plover, the Open Source Steno Engine and one of the masterminds behind Steno Arcade here!

So yeah, Steno Hero is the Advanced level of the forthcoming Steno Arcade tutorial game suite. We already have a free online textbook that people have been using to teach themselves steno -- often using a $40 NKRO keyboard -- for almost six years now. We figured it would be more fun to learn using video games, so that's why we launched the Steno Arcade crowdfunding campaign. If we get enough money, we'll be able to build the other three games in the Steno Arcade series, so people who don't already know steno will be able to play. Steno Hero is probably too hard for most people to play on qwerty, and steno beginners are gonna struggle with it, but it's really freaking fun for people who already know steno!

More information on http://opensteno.org

The crowdfunding campaign is at http://stenoarcade.com. Plover is open source, Steno Arcade is open source and made with open source software (the Godot engine), and you can learn steno either with the $40 NKRO keyboard I mentioned before or with a variety of open source hardware options that are a little more expensive but custom built for steno use. Our lead developer taught himself steno with the free textbook and now uses Plover to hack on the Plover codebase, so it can be done!

If you're not getting sound, though, that's a bug. Can you give any more information? We definitely need to solve that.
stenoknight Apr 1, 2016
Thanks! I'll get our devs to look into it.
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