[Kde-games-devel] Presentation and a few questions

[Kleag]

Hello Emmanuel,

On Sunday 27 April 2008 16:12:02 Emmanuel Teyssier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm called Emmanuel and I've been using KDE for quite a long time.
> I'm interested in game development and I've begun to try to create a card
> game for KDE4. I absolutely don't know whether I will be able to manage it,
> but at least this should be an interesting experience.
> So I've become to compile KDE4 trunk, to look at KDE various games code, to
> try tutorials, to explore API, etc...
Welcome to KDE game development !
>
> And I'm beginning to have a few question, especially related to the
> libkdegames. It seems pretty powerful, but not really used: no project in
> the trunk is using kgame for example (from what a grep tell me), etc... Is
> there any problem with this library?
In fact, in kdegames trunk there is still kfourinline using libkdegames/kgame. 
And there should be very soon ksirk. Also, the RTS game boson was using KGame.
The library is very useful and easy to use but it has some problems: it is not 
very actively developed and some parts are getting old. They should be checked 
to see if they still work as expected, etc.
Also there is very few documentation. There was an example game made with the 
library (by Martin Heni) but it has not been ported to kde4 up to now. I hope 
to find time for the porting somewhere in the future.
To summarize, KGame is very useful to simplify the handling of low level 
things like players, player input, turn management, etc. but it would be 
necessary to give it some love.

Bye.

Kleag

>
> I've also seen there was some utility for managing Cards (especially
> Cache), but it seems there's no way to use them directly in the
> KGamesCanvas. Am I wrong about this, or is it something that has not been
> implemented or foreseen yet?
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Emmanuel


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KsirK - a turn-based strategy game for KDE
http://gna.org/projects/ksirk

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http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kgraphviewer