Img Reveal - a game for Android phones

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We no longer distribute the Img Reveal app through Google Play.

  • If you have already installed Img Reveal on your Android phone, most of the its functions will continue to operate. For questions, contact us by email at support@dcs-works.com
  • We are working on a mulit-platform, web-browser version of Img Reveal to be released in the future.

Description

The Img Reveal™ app contains three games:

  • Swap 'em
  • Memory game
  • Growth and Decay

In the Swap 'em game, you see all the pieces at once, but they are jumbled. You swap the pieces until the image is revealed. The number and size of the pieces varies with the skill level that you set.

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In the Memory Game, you are presented with pieces of the image, one at a time, but in random order. Assemble the pieces in the correct order to reveal the image and win the game. If you make a mistake, you have to start over. If you have a “good eye” and you can remember the correct sequence that you had before the mistake, you’ll be able to win this game – eventually.

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In Growth and Decay, the screen is initially black, and by tapping on one side of the screen you make the image “grow” in the region that you tapped. Once a slice of the image is revealed all the way across the screen, it will start to “decay.” The decay begins on the other side of the screen, obscuring the image and (eventually) returning it to black. You fight off the decay by tapping on that side of the screen. If you are fast enough, you can reveal the entire image to win the game.

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Img Reveal contains functions to download images from the DCS Works web site, or any website, into its image library. You can also import images from your phone. By managing the settings and the image library, you can control the images that will be revealed in the game.

The free version of Img Reveal contains advertisements that will appear periodically as games are played. See the section on In-app Purchases.

In-app Purchases

Img Reveal offers the items below through In-app purchasing.

By purchasing the Month Of Images feature ($0.99)

  • You can play the game with a new “Image of the Day” every day, for 1 month.
  • The Image of the Day is sent to your device from the DCS Works server over the Internet

When you purchase the Regular Revealer package ($4.99), you will

  • Receive a new “Image of the Day” every day, for 6 months
  • Play Img Reveal with NO advertisements
  • Enable the slide show feature for your images
  • Get the ability to ask the artist about printed, or framed, versions

NOTE: If you purchase Regular Revealer while your Month Of Images is active, any days remaining from the Month of Images time span are added to the end of the Regular Revealer time span.

Each time you purchase Hi-res Heroics ($17.99), you can

  • Download 1 hi-res image for your personal use. For example, you can print your hi-res image or display it on a monitor.

Personal Use of Image Agreement

When you download a hi-res image from DCS Works, you agree to the "Personal Use License Agreement" found on this website. In simple terms, you agree that the photographer still "owns" the image, that the image is provided for your personal use, and that you will NOT redistribute the image, or use the image for commercial purposes. The agreement is found here. Don't worry, it's short.

Img Reveal Hints

Orientation

You’ll notice that Img Reveal wants to fill the screen with the image, so you’ll probably want to move your phone to keep the horizon horizontal. Your clue as to whether you’ll be revealing a horizontal (landscape) image or a vertical (portrait) image comes at the beginning of the game. When the screen displays the instruction message like “Tap this side to grow image” or “Drag each block to the correct position” orient your phone so that text is aligned properly. Then the image to be revealed will also be aligned properly.

Speed and Comfort

When you play the Img Reveal™ games stay loose. That is, keep your muscles relaxed and don’t overdo it. Some people find that it helps their speed and their comfort to keep the wrists straight. Generate your tapping/sliding action by moving your forearm and elbow more, and your wrist less. You might want to emulate a piano player, or a telegraph operator.

When You Need a Pause

When in the Swap 'em game, Growth and Decay game, or the Slide Show, press and hold the screen (long press), or tap the Android back button, to pause the game in progress. When In the Memory game, just move a piece to the wrong position. Once the game is paused, you can return to the main menu.

Reveling in your Revealed Image

At the end of a completed game, you can have Img Reveal show the image without any distracting commands written over it, by tapping the "Show the image” command. Tap the image to see some info about the image, then tap the image again to get the commands back.

The Play Now feature

When you are viewing an image using the Image Library | Images tab, and when you are importing an image using the Import Screen, you’ll have access to a “Play Now with this image” feature. Play Now takes you to a game using the target image – immediately.

NOTE: Behind the scenes, the Play Now feature has changed your Image Source setting to be the Play Now Album, so you’ll continue to play with the Play Now album until one of two things happens:

  1. You relaunch Img Reveal (kill Img Reveal and then launch it)
  2. You go to the Settings screen | Image tab and set the Image Source to something else.

Choosing Images and Getting More Images from DCS Works

You can customize your game, and choose the images you play with. First, use the Image Library, Album tab, to make an album containing the desired images. Then, use the Settings command, Image tab, to set Img Reveal to use that album as your image source. If you purchase the Image of the Day service, part of the “Regular Revealer” package, you can get a new image every day.

Getting Images from your Phone

To import images from your phone, tap the Import command on the main menu. You can also get to the Import screen from the Image Library | GET Images tab. On the Import screen, tap the browse button to find an image on your phone. Once you tap that image to select it, you’ll see a thumbnail of the image on the import screen. At that point you can tap Import to import the image, but you may want to make a few more decisions before you tap that Import button.

The imported image file must have a unique name within Img Reveal. You can specify something meaningful by typing in the Name text box. If you leave it blank and try to do the import, Img Reveal will suggest a unique name. Second, you can also add a comment about the image. This comment is added only to the Img Reveal database, and not to the image itself. Third, you must tell Img Reveal whether the image is a horizontal (landscape) image or a vertical (portrait) image.

You’ll also notice that there is a “Play Now” check box under the Import button. If you check that box, once you tap Import, the image will be imported AND Img Reveal will immediately take you to a game using that image. If you leave the box unchecked, the Image will be imported into your image library, and it will also be a member of the “Imported images” album. You can use the library commands to manage the imported image just as you would to manage any other image.

Getting Images from the Internet

OK, this is kind of long for a hint, but it’s really two hints in one.

To get an image from the Internet, you need a URL that points to an image accessible by the public (by an anonymous user). Such a URL will look something like this: https://blah.blah.com/blah/blah...blah.jpg To avoid typing, and mis-typing, and re-typing long URLs, use a copy and paste procedure. Do this:

  1. Using your phone's Chrome browser, or Firefox browser, browse to the image you want, then press-and-hold the image. Eventually a menu will pop up.
  2. In Chrome, choose "Open image in a new tab"
    1. Go to that tab and press-and-hold in the URL box
    2. Copy the URL by tapping (by tapping something that says Copy, or looks like multiple sheets of paper.
  3. In Firefox, choose, "Copy Image Location"
  4. Then go to the ImgReveal Download from URL screen and press-and-hold the URL box
  5. Once the pop-up menu that says "Paste" appears, tap it.
  6. Finally, fill out the rest of the fields and download!

There are lots of image URLs on the Internet that will allow anonymous access, but a lot that won’t. One frustrating case is getting URLs for your own images, like your family photos, from an image sharing website

To get an image from an image sharing website, make sure you have given permission to make that image accessible by the public. However, you’ll probably need to do more. Using the procedure above probably won’t work because the image file sharing websites often present URLs that do NOT point directly to the image. For example, they may format your image into a page with links to their website, and then present the URL for that page.

A procedure I’ve used (with Flickr) to get a URL that points directly to your image is as follows:

  1. On a PC, use a Firefox browser to navigate to the desired image/page.
  2. Right click on the page and use the command “Get Page Info” (I haven’t seen “Get Page Info” on a phone-based browser yet.)
  3. In the Page Info window, Media tab, find the desired image
  4. You’ll see the direct URL in the Page Info Window, “Location” field
  5. Since you’re on a PC you’ll have to type that URL into the Img Reveal URL box. Or, maybe copy it and email it to yourself, then copy it from your phone’s email program and paste the Img Reveal URL box. Once you’ve got the URL in the URL box, the rest is easy. :)

Privacy Policy

Img Reveal does not collect personally identifiable information. The Privacy Policy is found here.



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