[dot] KDE games taking shape for KDE 4.0

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From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
Dept: games-are-cool
Date: Saturday 05/May/2007, @06:07

KDE games taking shape for KDE 4.0
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   On May 1st, the KDE games [http://games.kde.org/] developer community
held its monthly IRC meeting. This time the major topic was discussing
which games would stay in the kdegames module for KDE 4 and which ones
would have to be removed because they don't meet our self-imposed
quality standards. Read on for a discussion of this decision.

     Our quality standards focus on having resizable, scalable
interfaces as modern computers now feature high resolution screens, and
having non-resizable games decreases their usability, so now most KDE
games use SVG graphics or similar techniques to achieve this
functionality.
      [http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/katomic3.png]   
[http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/katomic4.png]     KAtomic (KDE 3)  
KAtomic (KDE 4)         [http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/kreversi4.png]
    KReversi (KDE 3)   KReversi (KDE 4)     
[http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/kbounce3.png]   
[http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/kbounce4.png]     KBounce (KDE 3)  
KBounce (KDE 4)
     Over the KDE 4.0 development timeline, KDE games has welcomed two
new additions, KSquares [http://milliams.com/content/view/18/42/] a KDE
implementation of the paper "squares" game and Kiriki
[http://home.gna.org/kiriki/], a Tali dice game.
      [http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/ksquares.png]   
[http://static.kdenews.org/dannya/kiriki.png]     KSquares   Kiriki
     Unfortunately, there are around 10 games that did not made the cut,
mostly because no maintainer was found to work on the KDE 3 to KDE 4
transition.
    * Atlantik
    * KFouleggs
    * Klickety
    * KPoker
    * Kenolaba
    * KAsteroids
    * KSnake
    * KSokoban
    * KJumpingcube
    * KTron
 If any of these games is on your list of favourite games, join us
[https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-games-devel] and start
working on it so it makes a star comeback in KDE 4.1.

     For more details, read this commentary
[http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/05/02/which-games-are-moving/] from the
kdegames module release co-ordinator.