[Kde-games-devel] KSame status

[Mauricio Piacentini]

Henrique Pinto wrote:
> I'd appreciate if anybody could test it and give suggestions/bug reports. 
> Resizing the window and removing stones from the board seems a little bit 
> slow currently, but I'll believe this is caused by me deleting and creating 
> a large number of QGraphicsItems when these operations happen -- I'll fix 
> this soon.

Hi, Henrique. The version I saw already has the newer graphics (minus 
background) by Johann, checked a few hours ago. It is so much better 
looking than the old version, it almost looks like a different game. And 
imo resizing speed is ok as it is.

My only suggestion is, of course, a not-so-simple one... The one feature 
I miss in KSame is better feedback when pieces are removed, so you can 
see exactly what is happening with the board. This helps people 
understand the game better as well (well, it is not that complex, but...)
To see what I mean by this, launch klickety and remove a group. I am 
talking about the small animation that occurs after you click. It is ok 
imo to make the clicked balls vanish immediately, but I miss the little 
animation showing how the other elements fall or get squeezed to the 
side when something gets removed. As it is right now sometimes it just 
seems that balls have "jumped" from one place to another, depending on 
the shape of the group removed, and sometimes it is not exactly clear 
how they ended up in a given location.
If you could somehow get this into KSame I believe it will enhance the 
game experience greatly. Since you are now using QGV, maybe you could 
borrow some code from katomic, which already has animations for the 
atoms when they slide?

Regards,
Mauricio Piacentini

ps- if you have time, login to #kdegames or #kde-brasil one of these 
days, I would like to talk to you about FISL 8, maybe we can do 
something related to kdegames for it.