[Kde-games-devel] ksokoban

[Scott MacDonald]

Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Diumenge 13 Maig 2007, Scott MacDonald va escriure:
>> Hey guys,
>
> Hey, why are you hijacking kjewled thread???
>
> Please, next time start a new thread instead of replying to one message that
> has nothing to do with yours and changing the subject.
>

Sorry, I didn't realize that would cause problems. Oops! :)

>> I've been looking through the codebase, and well... its interesting. As far
>> as I can tell, KSokoban was developed for KDE2, and somehow ported to KDE3.
>> The real concern I'm having is how ungainly the code "feels", since I've
>> noticed the following
>>
>>  - all rendering is done through some sort of HTML subsytem (divs and img
>> are sprinkled liberally through the code base)
>>  - many custom classes were made where Qt should suffice, such as the move
>> queue.
>
> Most of kdegames had this "problem", wrote long time ago and with some small
> porting in between.
>

What happened? Were they updated, or did the pretty new KDE4 versions have the
majority of their changes hacked into the existing code base?

>>
>> I'm sorely tempted to overhaul everything in the code base, except for the
>> level loader (which seems to be decent). I know normally this looked at as
>> a big no-no, but at this point porting to KDE4 would be pointless.
>> Animations, SVG support would be best suited if we rewrote the rendering
>> portion of the program from the ground up, using the canvas.
>>
>> Again, its summer break.... so I'm more than willing to take this on as a
>> fun way of learning programming for KDE. The sokoban game itself is fairly
>> trival to write, though the display may be more time consuming.
>>
>> Also, if this goes ahead, can I get commit access? I mean, I _could_ submit
>> a patch, but if we go ahead the amount of code unchanged would be tiny.
>
> As i said to Vic everyone is entitled to have commit access if understands the
> rules, same answer to him applies to you.
>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Welcome :-)
>
> Albert
>
>>
>> ~ Scott MacDonald
>> UIC ACCC Computer Consultant
>> Assoc. for Computing Machinery Treasurer
>>
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>>
>> ----
>>
>> I can picture in my mind,
>> a world without war, a world without hate.
>> And I can picture us attacking that world,
>> because they'd never expect it.
>>
>> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> > A Diumenge 13 Maig 2007, Vic Fryzel va escriure:
>> >> Hi Albert,
>> >>
>> >> > Why not host it on KDE SVN repository?
>> >>
>> >> I didn't think I could host it in the KDE SVN repository because I'm not
>> >> an official KDE developer.  Does one not have to be a KDE dev to use the
>> >> KDE SVN repo?
>> >
>> > You are just two steps away of becoming an "official KDE developer"
>> >
>> > a) Wanting to be one for a "somewhat long" period
>> > b) Reading http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account
>> >
>> > Albert
>> >
>> >> > Well, just start coding it with "ugly" graphics and keep in mind the
>> >> > possibility of "themes" so an artist can come later and just changing
>> >> > image files can change altogether the look of the game.
>> >>
>> >> Alright I'll do that.  Thanks for that point.
>> >>
>> >> > As far as i know sound people is missing.
>> >>
>> >> I've never done sound effects before.  Can you recommend any
>> >> applications that might be useful for making these?
>> >>
>> >> > Seems a cool game we'd like to have in KDE, go go go!
>> >> >
>> >> :D
>> >
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