[Kde-games-devel] Re : Re : What to do for default theme for Kapman?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Thomas Gallinari wrote:

Eep, what mailer are you using? It's messing up quotes and not threading 
properly :-(.

>>> We'd like to finish all that stuff before supplying any otherchange... Our first goal is to make Kapman ready for 4.1 release, thenit will be "mature" for further features.
> 
>> ...except that having the code in a state where others are comfortable 
>> contributing will help *get* there. Especially if no one wants to make 
>> whole-maze svg's ;-). Anyway, I will try to contact your team off-list 
>> to discuss these thoughts further.
> 
> I know what you think about a tile-based maze Matthew, but I'm now asking all the contributers to get more than one opinion, since it seems to be a huge improvement and an important feature :
> Is a tile-based maze essential for Kapman ? If it is, is it so urgent, should we make it immediately or can we wait for a while ?
> I'd really like to know since we have to plan our development until june...

Well... I have it about 80% done already :-). And I'd be more than happy 
to finish it, so really it's a question of reviewing patches and if said 
patches can be accepted. (The "80%" is because after talking with 
Eugene, I'm pretty well decided that corridors should be tilable as 
well, which I hadn't initially planned on. But the hard parts are done.)

Personally, my highest priority is to get the stuff I have ready for 
review before any major changes happen. In general I agree with your 
priorities, except that I think we need a pixmap cache pretty urgently 
(theming really can't happen until animation is practical). Code-wise, I 
think your biggest time sinks are going to be that, and theming support. 
The AI difficulty is a one-night fix if you take the easiest way, and 
the other two issues (art and documentation) don't affect the code.

Btw, I did a write-up regarding theming, and how to tell the game engine 
some needed parameters regarding the graphics; not "final" stuff, just 
my own thoughts on what I'd like to be able to tweak from an art 
perspective. Should I post it here or send it to you off-list first?

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Matthew
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