Name Game 2.3.0

The quiz now learns which faces you find hard. Every answer is saved: right, slow, with a hint, missed or skipped. A face you miss or answer slowly comes up two or three times a round. A face you know well comes up once. Recent rounds count more than old ones, so a face you have since learned drifts back down.

You can also mark a face yourself. Click the small box on the photo's corner. One click shows 2, a second shows 3, and a third clears it. The number is the fewest times that face comes up in a round.

New in the Data menu:

• Your progress shows five pages of charts from your own answers: the headline numbers, how each round went, how quickly names came to you, your hardest faces right now, and the names you mixed up. Each page has a caption explaining how to read it and what your numbers say.
• Export data and Import data carry your hints, marks, scores and answers between computers in one file.

New in the File menu: Face-down tic-tac-toe, a class game for a projector. Nine photos lie face down on a board labeled A to C and 1 to 3. Two teams take turns calling a square. If you name the person, the square is an O. If you miss, it is an X. Three in a row wins for that team.

Setup > Keep my data lets a copy on a thumb drive keep its data on the drive, so nothing is left behind on a borrowed computer.

The window and photos now grow with high-density displays, the same way the text does.

Downloads: NameGame.exe and RosterPrep.exe for Windows, and a .dmg for Apple Silicon Macs. On Linux, run the Python files from the repository.

Name Game v2.2.0 — presidents, and it opens on Quiz

What changed

The sample roster is now the fifteen most recent presidents — Franklin Roosevelt
through to the present — from the Library of Congress's
Free to Use and Reuse sets.
It replaces five invented students, so the app can be tried, taught with, or
demonstrated to a room without putting a student's face on screen. Sources for every
photograph are in sample-roster/CREDITS.md.

Card mounts are cropped off. Several of these portraits are photographs of a print on
a card, and the card can carry the sitter's name — Roosevelt's is signed across his.
In a game about recalling names, that is the answer written on the card.

The app opens on Quiz, not Study. Study is one click away, and Ctrl+Tab still
swaps. Landing on Study meant the first thing the app did was show you answers.

The text says "people", not "students." The app works on any folder of faces; only
its wording assumed a classroom, which reads oddly when the photograph is Eisenhower.
Nothing about how it handles your own roster has changed: the photos still never leave
your machine.

Downloads

NameGame-Linux.AppImage — chmod +x it and run. If your system has no FUSE, run it
with --appimage-extract-and-run.

Windows and macOS builds are produced by CI and will attach to this release shortly.

Name Game v2.0.1

Everything from v2.0.0, plus the practice loop people actually asked for.

New in this release

• Three free skips a run. A blank on one face no longer costs the whole
  attempt. The skipped student rotates to the back of the queue, so you still
  have to name them; the fourth skip ends the run. The count is on screen.
• Streaks that persist. Your longest streak is kept per section and shown
  three ways: the run you are in, the best you reached in it, and your all-time
  best for that class. The Study screen lists every section at a glance.
• Keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+H for a hint, Esc to skip — both named on
  the buttons. Enter submits, and again to replay after a run ends.

Reminder of what it does

Study walks your roster with each name shown and lets you write a memory
hint under any face. Quiz hides the name and asks, offering your own hint
first. Switch with File → Study / Quiz, or Ctrl+Tab.

File → Prepare photos builds a photo folder from a roster saved out of your
browser — no account, no API key, nothing uploaded. Or try it with the five
invented students that ship with the app.

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
Windows	NameGame-Windows.exe	SmartScreen may warn: More info → Run anyway
macOS (Apple Silicon)	NameGame-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Unsigned: right-click → Open → Open
Linux	NameGame-Linux.AppImage	chmod +x, then run

No Intel Mac build — GitHub's Intel runners are being retired.

Name Game v2.0.0

Learn your students' names from their photos.

Study walks your roster with each name shown, and lets you write a memory
hint under any face. Quiz hides the name and asks for it, offering your own
hint first. Switch with File → Study / Quiz, or Ctrl+Tab.

Getting your photos in

File → Prepare photos does it for you: it opens your photo roster in the
browser where you are already signed in, you save the page with Ctrl+S
(⌘S on a Mac) choosing Web Page, complete, and the app turns that into a
folder of named photos. No account, no API key, nothing uploaded — the photos
stay on your computer, and the app offers to delete the saved roster page
afterwards, since it holds student ID numbers as well as faces.

Not ready for a real roster? Try it with 5 sample students — five invented
people ship with the app.

Downloads

Platform	File	Notes
Windows	NameGame-Windows.exe	Double-click. SmartScreen may warn: More info → Run anyway
macOS (Apple Silicon)	NameGame-macOS-AppleSilicon.dmg	Unsigned: right-click the app → Open → Open
Linux	NameGame-Linux.AppImage	chmod +x then run

No Intel Mac build — GitHub's Intel runners are being retired and the job no
longer completes.

Shortcuts

Space next · ← previous · S shuffle · A auto-advance · Ctrl+H hint · Esc skip ·
Enter submit, and again to replay after a game over.

Student Name Learning Game v1.0.0

Initial release - Quiz and Study modes for learning student names