3 <i>A game of competitive puzzle-design.</i>
5 By ruthlessly guarded secret arrangement, the council's agents can pick any
6 lock in the city. A secret guild produces the necessary locks - apparently
7 secure, but with fatal hidden flaws. A ritual game is played to determine the
8 best designs; to master it, you must build locks which can be picked only by
9 one who knows the secret, and you must discover the secret flaws in the locks
10 designed by your colleagues.
12 Coordinate a pair of tools to pick locks devised by other players in a
13 mechanistic turn-based puzzle game; construct intricate locks of your own to
14 protect the secrets you discover.
16 Free software, released under the GPLv3.
18 Written in Haskell, with SDL and Curses user interfaces.
20 [![Metagame](screenshots/metagame.small.png)](screenshots/metagame.png)
21 [![Picking a lock](screenshots/playing.small.png)](screenshots/playing.png)
22 [![Editing a lock](screenshots/editing.small.png)](screenshots/editing.png)
23 [![Curses mode](screenshots/curses.small.png)](screenshots/curses.png)
27 Latest version is 0.7.2.3 ([NEWS](NEWS)).
29 * Source: download the [source tarball](intricacy-0.7.2.3.tar.gz), or
30 <tt>git clone git://repo.or.cz/intricacy.git</tt>
31 * [Windows binary](intricacy-0.7.1.1-win32.zip)
32 (intricacy version 0.7.1.1)
33 * [Mac OS X binary](intricacy-0.5.7-mac32.zip)
34 (intricacy version 0.5.7) - thanks to Kevin Eaves for providing this package.
35 * Cabal: <tt>cabal update && cabal install intricacy</tt>
36 <small>(requires the haskell package manager 'cabal', and SDL dependencies).</small>
37 * Gentoo: <tt>layman -a haskell && emerge intricacy</tt>
38 * Arch Linux [AUR package](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intricacy/)
42 If you'd like to test out the game without installing anything, have access to
43 ssh, and are happy with a text-only interface, try:
45 * ssh intricacy@thegonz.net
49 * [Web forum](http://intricacy.thegonz.net/forum/)
50 * Mailing list: mail mbays+intricacy@sdf.org with subject line '[intricacy-discuss] subscribe'.
51 * IRC channel: #intricacy on irc.freenode.org
55 Download: [47MB ogg theora 15m](intricacy.ogv)
57 Stream: tell your video player to stream from
58 <tt>http://mbays.freeshell.org/intricacy/intricacy.ogv</tt>,
59 or [use youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmuSNe4bGAM).