[Kde-games-devel] Bug in KReversi

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dijous 29 Novembre 2007, Dennis P va escriure:
> Bug in KReversi found during testing the previous beta of KDE4.
> Kreversi is a turn based game like chess. You place a piece, the board
> changes. The computer places a piece and the board changes again.
> Bug: These 2 changes however run in one go because the AI is very fast, at
> worst the board changes three times around and afterwards an animated
> notification appears that the computer will place the next piece as you,
> the user, has no legal placement option. But the placement and the changes
> have already happened and you are left wondering 'what happened and did the
> computer make legal moves?'.
>
> Solution
> Along with the AI a timer should run. I suggest 1 second. When the AI is
> instantaneously fast (like always in this awesomely well made application)
> there will still be a one second 'computer thinks his move' time.
>
> Result
> User thinks for a while and places a piece, the board changes.
>
> 1 second timer or slower AI: User thinks 'Oh no, why did I do that. Look at
> the current state of the board, the cpu has so many great options I hope he
> doesn't place its piece there.'
>
> Computer places piece, the board changes.
>
> User thinks for a while and places a piece, the board changes.
>
> 1 second timer or slower AI: User thinks 'Uh'
>
> Computer places piece, the board changes.
>
> The animated notification appears while the 1 second timer runs or slower
> AI is busy: User thinks 'Oh, crap'
>
> Computer places another piece, the board changes again.
>
> User thinks for a while and places a piece, the board changes.
> ...etcetra...
>
> See, now the game runs like a strategic turn based game, which it is.

Hi, thanks for contacting the developers mailing list, to make sure this bug 
is not forgotten you should use bugs.kde.org

Albert

>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
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