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Slacker
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**Slacker** is a clone/parody of the popular arcade game *Stacker*, in which
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you must stack blocks to the top of the screen in order to win the game. Boxes
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will move back and forth at varying speeds. Hit the switch (in this game it's
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mapped to either Return or Space) to stop the boxes and move on to the next
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row. Only boxes that have something underneath them will be stacked. As the
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tower rises, the game will make your tower thinner. You win a minor prize at
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the 10th level (the blocks change color), and if you reach the 15th level, you
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will win the major prize. Good luck!
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In the arcade version, credits are expensive (often $1 per play), but the
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prizes are excellent (the one that I played let you choose between an iPod, a
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PSP, a DS, or a camcorder). As you might guess, it is an extremely difficult
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game to win. I have made my own version of the game correspondingly hard, so
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that the next time I go back to the restaurant, I will have a better chance to
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win a good prize. Despite the hard nature of the game, I hope will enjoy it,
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and if you wind up practicing with the game and getting so good that you win an
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extra iPod, I wouldn't mind if you sent it my way. :)
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This game was originally made by Clint and Jennifer Herron (see credits). They
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wrote the above description, too. I (McSinyx) fork the game to improve the
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codebase, make it more similar to the arcade game and maybe add more features.
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Control
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Return, Space
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Start playing or place your stacking boxes.
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Escape, ``q``
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Return to intro screen or quit.
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``1`` to ``9``
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Set the speed of the game (default: 5).
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``0``
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Increase the number of blocks currently moving.
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Credits
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`Version 1.2 and earlier <http://www.pyweek.org/e/LastMinute/>`_:
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* Clint "HanClinto" Herron (coding)
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* Jennifer Herron (graphics)
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