ARG Tools is a set of tools, reference material, and links for anyone who plays Alternate Reality Games, participates in transmedia storytelling, or solves puzzle trails. The tools range from decoder-ring style codebreaking to countdown timer prediction. The reference material includes word frequency, morse code, semaphore, and more.
Included in this package are:
• Dictionary:
◦ Search for words matching patterns (e.g. all possible crossword answers)
• Encoding/Decoding:
◦ ROT-N (from 1 to 26, including ROT-13)
◦ BASE64
◦ Vigenere / Beaufort
◦ Transposition
◦ Substitution
• Character Encodings
◦ Braille
◦ Fingerspelling
◦ Letters to numbers (1..26) and ASCII
◦ Nautical Flags
◦ Moon Alphabet
◦ Morse code (two representations)
◦ Myst Dni Glyphs
◦ Phonetic alphabet
◦ Pigpen Cipher (two representations)
◦ Roman Numerals
◦ Semaphore (two representations)
• Tools and Reference
◦ A red/green/blue color mixer with hex and decimal values
◦ A list of common English words, letters, letter pairs
◦ Billiard ball colors
◦ Countdown timer prediction
◦ Dart board scoring
◦ Dewey Decimal System
◦ ISO Country Codes
◦ Mathematical Constants, Prime Numbers
◦ Music Notes and their Frequencies
◦ Planets
◦ Periodic Table
◦ Resistor Color Codes
◦ Zodiac, Chinese Zodiac
◦ Quick access to Google, Wikipedia, Sudoku Step-Solving, Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
The design goals of this application include:
• Easy to use in the field
• Downloadable over the air so you can quickly obtain it without computer access
• Free-as-in-beer!