[Kde-games-devel] New game - KBalm

[Albert Astals Cid]

A few comments:
 * Either AI is unbeatable or i am completely useless playing that game :-D
 * Source has some warnings try to clean them
 * Starting the games gives me scrollbars at the playing field, that's very 
bad
 * You must install the images
 * Even if i always loose i find it quite interesting

As for going to kdegames, kde-core-devel is the de-facto place for asking for 
new things in kde.

Albert

A Divendres 26 Novembre 2004 19:49, Richard Smith va escriure:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 26 November 2004 18:08, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > kbalm.cpp:16:25: boardwidget.h: No such file or directory
> >
> > Did you forget to include it? or i am doing something wrong?
>
> Yeah, sorry, my bad. I forgot to darcs push some stuff before I checked out
> my sources to make the tarball (it's 9 commits old). :(
>
> The attached tarball has been tested, and builds, at least for me... sorry
> for spamming you all with another copy of it. Thanks for your attention.
>
> > A Divendres 26 Novembre 2004 18:54, Richard Smith va escriure:
> > > A couple of days ago I played a flash game called Balm which I kinda
> > > enjoyed, so I decided to clone it for KDE. The result of a couple of
> > > days' hacking is attached. It's in a playable state, with reasonable
> > > graphics and a fairly stupid but still challenging AI. It's basically
> > > ready for release as a 1-player game.
> > >
> > > I have various improvements planned for it - most importantly I want to
> > > add a UI for starting a 2-player (or more) game, and I want support for
> > > network play. It could also benefit from UI to change the options
> > > (board size and AI skill level), and some visual feedback to make it
> > > obvious where the other players went (currently it's easy to miss).
> > >
> > > Anyway, if you want to try it out, untar the files into a kdegames
> > > checkout, build it as normal (I've been told this doesn't work with
> > > srcdir!=builddir), then run it from the source directory (this is
> > > needed since it doesn't yet install its graphics). The rules of the
> > > game are as follows:
> > >
> > > Every node 'points' to another node. Two nodes are connected if either
> > > points to the other one. You start off controlling the node in the
> > > top-left corner, while your opponent controls the node in the
> > > bottom-right corner. On your turn, you choose one of your nodes to
> > > rotate a quarter turn clockwise (by clicking on it or selecting it with
> > > the arrow keys and hitting space), thereby potentially changing which
> > > nodes it's connected to. You are then in control of any nodes that are
> > > now directly or indirectly connected to the one you rotated (including
> > > nodes that your opponent used to control). The goal is to take over all
> > > of your opponent's nodes.
> > >
> > > I'd like the game to be incorporated into kdegames (if not for KDE3.4
> > > then for KDE4.0). What's the procedure for that?