Puzzle: Choose on of over 180 games

Yay, the first one not solved within some minutes :)
mini hint: read about steganography..

My head hurts.

i don't understand

My guess is: NETSCAPE2.0!

The password is "DontTrustRedFish".

Waited a little to give someone else a chance, but hell, there's over 180 prizes, I'm not ashamed to ask for a third :) And I think the others could use some hint to get on the right track ... I'll be happy to post spoilers, just waiting for SleepGamer's ok on that

Ok, so here's how to solve the red fish one ...

When you watch the gif closely, you may notice there's some pixel junk in the first two animation frames (images below).

With the right tools or some coding you can extract those frames (I guess anyone who found the fish can do that). You won't find anything in the raw data from the GIF file tho, not quite there yet.

Image data in GIFs is compressed. Once you decode the first frame's image data, you'll actually find plain text instructions on how to get the password from the second frame. I guess you could get up to this point with the right tools; to follow the instructions, you'll need do to some (easy) coding.

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Another one. Sorry its a little bit harder again (i hope) ;)
Also it looks like i messed something up at encoding, or maybe not ?
Feel free to ask for tips, but give it a try first ;)

Hint 1: It is more as one step involved

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From now one i will always publish two images with data hidden in a similar way.
But both must be solved by different people.
Kind of like a first and second place, but both get the price for the first :)

I will soon post a similar one to the last challenge. So if you are able to get the password from the last one you will find the second one easy ;)

This also means, please only post writeups after both puzzles are solved.

Here is the "second place image" .
Meaning: The password is hidden in (almost) the same way and mandrill can't win this one :P, as he won the "first place" of this kind.
<small>Ofc, he can still tell me the password per steam ;)</small>

More hints:
Hint 1: Sometimes the small things matter.
Hint 2: Ignore things you can't see.

ETA: for the next two is about 24 hours, can't do puzzles all day long ;)

It looks much nicer, doesn't it ?

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Ok, here is a little (and quite dirty) way to get the gifs data with the python module PIL (It might work with PILLOW too, but i have no clue)

 from PIL import Image
 img = Image.open("somefile.gif")
 # PIL can't just jump to the nth frame (why ever), you have to iterate over all frames till you are at the nth
 # Lets say we want the 5th frame,
 for i in range(5): img.seek(i) 
 # For getting the pixel i had to use this dirty trick. Maybe you do not need this and the crop call in between with your version.
 # My PIL version ignored different frames with different offset, this fix that.
 # anyway, if it is required it has to be saved directly after the call to seek, as some function calls (like show) seem to overwrite this.
 size = img.tile[0][1]

 # Lets show the image.
 img.show()

 # This will return the pixel(color indices) as enflated version.
 # You might not need the crop call in between, but it shouldn't harm (i hope).
 pix = list(img.crop(size).getdata())
 # To be able to access pixel directly (and do splicing and stuff AFAIR)
 some_pixel = img.crop(size).load()[(some_x_value, some_y_value)]

 #save it like this
 img.save("somotherefile.gif") # or whatever image filetype you want

Feel free to post other/easier ;), solutions to get the image frames in here.

Sorry it took me so long. But here are the next two (first and second place).
The last one is still not solved, so there is still a game for that ;).

Some more tips (for this and the last one):
Again, read about steganography and think about how it could be used in terms of gifs.
Jul qbrf gur pbybe gnoyr pbagnva fb znal qhcyvpngrf ?

You need to know how to code to solve some parts of the puzzles. I don't think there is a tool which does what you need (but i may be wrong).

I hope its ok that i attached the images again, as they are really small anyway.
Anyway,, have fun :)

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My little feedback.
Started this series of puzzles with the 'Field' gif and got stuck.
I've been fiddling with pixels for 3 days now. Seems like I can split gif into frames perfectly fine (i'm using python 3.3+Pillow, tried mandrill's code, it gave same results as Pillow, so I guess I'm ok with splitting).
Since more than 1 step involved it's quite possible that it is impossible :O to understand if you are going in the right direction.

The 'ladle' gif was fine in the sense it gave you indication as to what to do. I tried quite a lot of things (byte and bitwise) but truly it's a needle in a hay at the moment :).

Ok, ok, I may be truly blind...

Awesome, i thought mandrill and perrolijo where the last two left :)

The first step for both field and "numbergrid" images is basically the same (The second field one has the difference in the second hint).
Both tips for the numbergrid thingies are valid for the second field gif, too (Did you managed to read the second hint ?, It is quite easy).

Also i had some troubles with the Pil(low) version somehow, but it worked in my tests with mandrills decoding version
If you are still stuck feel free to ask for more specific hints.

mandrill and perrolijo solved the last one.
So there is still the second field puzzle waiting to get solved.

ATM: i don't really have any good idea for another challenge, but i guess some when there will be a new one. But i can't give you any ETA (sry)

After 6 days I finally got some readable data on the first field image. It's funny that I was playing with the idea from the start. But some things are not obvious...
Now to get the second field data...

P.S. Ok. Guess found something...

Second field image password is "ProjectGutenbergStillRocks".
I'm totally exhausted! :)