[Kde-games-devel] Some nice stuff

[Josef Spillner]

Hi,

after spending several months with trying out new stuff and writing tons of 
unusable or only half-usable games we brought out a new GGZ release, which 
shows quite well that it was planned for the end of last year, and the KDE 
parts of it suffer from that fact as well.
It's still KDE 2.2 based, and there isn't too much new to discover, but on 
the other hand it will make the next release even more kicking ;)

So, here's what has changed in version 0.0.5:
- some UI improvements
- new game client: Muehle / Nine men's morris
- new game client: Koenig (chessd compatible)
- the beginning of a KControl module, which already has some read-only 
functionality
- a KIO slave to access GGZ servers
- another KIO slave, very experimental, which can be used to access meta 
servers of any kind. Unfortunately all those which use sub-slaves don't work 
yet, I'll have to fix that. In theory, games like Atlantik or Freeciv or 
Netrek or our own meta server are supported.
Once this is fully working I'd like to move it over to KDE CVS, but this 
might still take a while (not another 10 months though).

What is planned for 0.0.6:
- port to KDE3
- get rid of old workarounds and hacks
- finalize some still unstable games like Copenhagen [1]

Well, this was the KDE-side of the news, for a complete overview you might be 
interested in reading
	http://ggz.sourceforge.net/docs/release.html

What's up with KDE:
- Tobias König and me have written a bomberman-like game, once named KaBoom, 
then renamed to Kamikaze, which we would like to see in KDE 3.{1|2}, 
depending on our time. We ported it to KDE 3 already, but it seems we forgot 
to commit... will be fixed soon. [2]
- The same guy and me had a little contest who would bring up the best port 
of a mobile phone game to KDE, and I think both results are playable at least 
one time :) [3] [4]
- Another KDE game: Kard. But this is intended to go into kde-edu. This will 
even be the one which will be moved first.

Josef

[1] http://ggz.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php?op=SSsFullShot&cid=36
[2] http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mindx/kaboom-head/
[3] http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mindx/relokate/
[4] http://mindx.dyndns.org/download/krotate.tar.bz2

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