[Kde-games-devel] KGoldrunner in KDE 4.0

[Ian Wadham]

At the beginning of the IRC meeting [Sun Aug 12 2007] , Eugene said:
    [22:03:46] <it-s> here we go: the big topic is KGoldrunner, then
    khighscore, then konquest if nobody minds.
But then KGr got only passing mentions, so what was the "big topic"?

Luciano and I have been discussing what we might do in KGr for
KDE 4.0 and KDE4.1.  Attached is a list in text-file form.  Please have
a look at the first 6 points and if anyone would like to change anything,
please let me know.

All the best, Ian W.

P.S. BTW is anybody besides me worried that we have a string freeze
in less than a week?  There must be lots of doco that has been made
invalid by all the changes we have been making to graphics style.
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KDE 4.0 release

 1. Removal of the "game over" dialog.
    Luciano Comment: I wanted to use the gamepopup stuff for that instead,
    but it's for QGraphicsView, I think, so we'll have to emulate it for the
    GameCanvas.  I find the dialog to be irritating in the    context.
 2. Option to repeat last level, with 5 new lives, after "Game Over".
    Ian Comment: DONE.
 3. Clean up the themes we ship 
    Ian Comment: Luciano's Nostalgia theme is brilliant imo and just what
    I have been looking for to preserve the spirit of the old 1980s game.
    I am considering dropping all three remaining KDE 3/2/1 themes ASAP.
    But Geek City especially needs work (Eugene?).
 4. Update the documentation, hints and messages.
    Ian Comment: Hints and game data DONE.  Doco and *.cpp messages HI PRI.
 5. Dialog facelifts.
 6. (possibly) Fix the KScoreDialog so that it works well for KGoldrunner,
    and write the conversion scripts for the old score files.
    Ian Comment: Facelift of old KGr highscore dialog DONE, including
    removing a redundant message box and having "-" as default player
    name (for Mauricio ;-)).

Post KDE 4.0 release:

 7. In-canvas game information (what's now in the status bar): score, level,
    number of lives, with a nice font - large and readable ...
    Ian Comment: Imo the status bar has become very vanilla in KDE 4 and not
    as useful (for KGr) as it was in KDE 2-3.
 8. A startup screen, somewhat similar to the Konqueror about page, with some
    common actions.
 9. New game-engine ... making possible ...
10. More accurate pause/resume.
11. Save and reload at any instant in a game.
12. Record and replay games.
13. Run demos ... especially at startup or as hints for difficult levels.
14. Hot-new-stuff support for themes and game sets.
15. Sounds.
    Ian Comment: My sound man (my son Peter) is ready.  He also composed many
    of the levels in KGr when he was about 13.  The price of his work is a
    copy of KGr working on Apple OS X ... a problem as yet unsolved.
16. Registration of high-scores on the Internet, incl. country of origin.
17. Use of recordings to authenticate Internet high scores.
18. Integration of Scavenger game (180 new levels) and rule-set.
19. Better support for beginners, such as graphical cues for false bricks
    and hidden ladders, extra messages with "don't tell me this again", etc.
20. Animations for death of hero and digging (e.g. death ray from enemy
    to hero and laser beam from hero to brick).
21. Much more use of KConfig classes, e.g. to remember last game and level.