[Kde-games-devel] KGoldrunner themes

[Luciano Montanaro]

Il Monday 20 August 2007 14:24:42 Ian Wadham ha scritto:
> Firstly, in relation to this topic, Eugene has just committed a new
> theme called The Treasure of Egypt, which is MAGNIFICENT ... :-)

It looks awesome. It's a pity that most of the details of the hero are lost 
with my laptop screen resolution, but it's clearly the best KGoldrunenr theme 
we are shipping. The mummies are really great!

However I just recompiled qt-copy and kgoldrunner, and I have found a couple 
of problems:

- I can no longer use the keyboard to play. Pressing the cursor keys does no 
good, and using the menu to chose the keyboard mode simply disable the mouse 
mode, and the hero remains standing still.
- There is a sort of grid over the playing area; this is not visible with the 
Egypt theme because its tile have some spacing already, but on all other 
themes I can see semitransparent vertical lines between the tiles.
Like here:
http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/kgoldrunner/kgoldrunner-black-and-white.png

What is happening?

>
> And I have asked him to have a look at tweaking the Geek City
> background, in anticipation of Luciano and I tweaking the runners.
> I thought you were away for a few days, Luciano, but it seems you
> have been busy on KGr as well as Eugene ... :-)
>

Well, I just had a bit of free time, so... :)

> I am intending to remove the three remaining KDE 3 themes from
> KGoldrunner, namely Original KGoldrunner, Apple II and Midnight.
> They have been convincingly and triumphantly replaced by your
> Nostalgia and Nostalgia Blues themes, Luciano.
>
> That would leave us with five SVG themes in KGoldrunner SVN as
> of today: KGoldrunner Default, The Treasure of Egypt, Nostalgia,
> Nostalgia Blues and Geek City.  A truly excellent collection!
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:50 pm, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> > I have prepared a variation of the Nostalgia theme, with accessibility in
> > mind.  You can find it here:
> > http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/kgoldrunner/accessible/
>
> Looking at it with Firefox, it seems to me that it should be a good
> addition, for accessibility purposes, but I have not tried installing it
> and playing it yet.
>
> > Also, I wanted to port the default graphics from the defaut theme to the
> > geek city theme, but I made a few changes to the actors too:
> > http://www.cirulla.net/listing/kde_stuff/kgoldrunner/kgr_geek/
> > The enemy frames are based on the hero, frames, with an added rocking
> > motion.
>
> Geek City needs some love in order to become a *great* theme.  But I do
> think we should work in with Eugene on this one.  The background is his
> after all.  I am not too worried about what happens to the runners and
> tiles. I copied the runners from Mauricio's default theme and hacked the
> tiles onto the background using my own mediocre Inkscape skills.  The main
> thing was that I wanted to preserve Eugene's concept and his work on the
> background.
>

Well, the new runners can't stand against those in the Egypt theme, but I 
think they are more in theme with the scenario.
I hope at normal resolutions, the lack of detail (or the badly drawn details) 
will not show up.

The problem with geek city is that the background is dark, and the tiles are 
dark too. So they are not visible enough to play comfortably. 


> > Should I commit any of this to SVN? Or do we already have too many themes
> > for KGoldrunner?
>
> We can never have too many themes in KGoldrunner, Luciano, just as we
> can never have enough levels ... :-) :-) :-)
>
> However, I think we should add the accessibility theme, polish up the
> themes we have and then call it a day as regards KGr themes for KDE 4.0.
>
> I am really, really happy that KGr now has so many great themes and I
> can never thank Mauricio, Johann, Luciano and Eugene enough, but I am
> sure there must be lots of work that needs to be done on themes for other
> games between now and the KDE 4.0 release date ... :-) :-)
>

Yes, I think it's time to stop for now... But for kde4.1 I want Konqui in a 
theme! :)

Luciano

> All the best to you all and thankyou, thankyou everyone, Ian W.