[Kde-games-devel] Request for Bezique Game

[John Schneiderman]

On Wednesday 4 January 2006 22:54, Sarah Berry wrote:
> Dear KDE Game Developers,
>
> I wish to request that the card game Bezique be included in your next
> release.  This game was extremely popular in the nineteenth and early
> twentieth centuries and, folklore has it, it was Winston Churchill's
> favourite game.
>
> It is quite tactical (in comparison to most other card games) with a good
> degreee of gameplay involved and, I imagine, it would make an interesting
> and challenging game for programmers to develop.
>
> The rules are detailed at these locations:
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A646724
>
> and
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezique
>
> There is a shareware version of the game available for the Windows
> operating system, so if you want to see how another programmer has
> approached the development, you can dowload this (the shareware limitation
> is that you can only play ten times):
>
> http://www.popularshareware.com/load.asp?item=5111-4&url=http://cdrom.digit
>alriver.com/pub/malcolm/Bezique.exe
>
>
> It would be great to have this tactical card game included in KDE.  As
> there seems to be only the one shareware version available for WIndows, it
> would make an interesting point of differentiation.  Bezique today has a
> cult following and, being very much a thinking man's game, would appeal to
> many of the KDE users.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sarah
I am in the middle of creating a general card game suite for KDE actually, and 
am activly soliciting games to include. This game sounds intresting, would be 
intrested in helping develop this game?

John
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