[Kde-games-devel] libkdegames

[Martin Heni]

> numerous ways of handling this and even existing technologies that can
> be utilized (GSZ Gaming Zone) but of course they all have benefits and
> drawbacks so this will require a lot of preparation to determine what
> exactly we want to do.

Yes this sound good


>> I also think it would be cool to have the HighScore classes send the
> data to a server somewhere so you can see how you do against others
> around the world. Care would need to be taken to minimize the impact
> of fraudulant entries, which I don't think we will be able to
> completely eliminate. Again, there are also pre-existing systems we
> can take advantage of.
Interesting idea but the cheating will be a (unsolvable?) problem. Even with 
the Highscore we have now there were a lot of discussions before implementing 
them.

> Make KCardDeck utilize GetNewStuff, especially since cards should be
> made to use vector graphics, and cool new designs could become
> available.
I was also thinking along the lines of the vector graphics. Is this something
we should generally enhance?

> I think more card-based stuff could be moved down to kdelibs instead
> of each program utilizing their own homebrew. Rough examples:
I am not fully sure this is really necessary, but on the other hand it is 
not really difficult either.

> Is 3D support of any kind needed? There's no 3D anything right now.
Good question. Probably not for the moment. We should maybe focus to
get the other stuff running.

> GENERAL KDEGAMES STUFF:
> More multiplayer games (I would like a Hearts game), making sure to
> utilize the above enhancements.
It is a question whether we should take many more games in (although I like 
the hearts idea) as we already have a maintenance problem. However, since 
quite a while I was thinking whether we could not have kind of a auxiliary
kdegames package, kind of where we could collect more games in which are
not as tightly integrated into kde but which could still be kind of 
associtated with KDE and delivered as package with Linux distributions. The 
reason for this is that it is usually very hard to find, install and run 
third party applications so I personally would like a package with games 
which just work an run. However, I am not sure we should extend the amount of 
games in "kdegames" much more. This is way had the game of the additional 
games package.

> Graphics updates. Check out blinKen. Now THAT'S a good lookin' game.  :)
Do we have people with artisitc abilities which can polish up the games 
graphics?