[Kde-games-devel] Yet another 'the games do not follow the same style' mail

[Parker Coates]

Richard,

Consistency between games is a pretty hot topic right now. You seem to
be (and no offence is intended here) a nit-picker with a great deal of
patience. Perhaps you (or someone else) would be interested in doing
some research and actually tabulating data about the differences
between games.

Right now there are a lot of statements like "the theme selection
seems to be in a different place for each KDE game" but in reality I
would bet there's only three maybe four different ways of changing
themes. It be nice to have a table where it's clear that 4 games do it
this way, 7 do it this way and only one does it this way.

Possible points of comparison:
- Game start screen
- Theme changing
- Configuration through dialog or menu items or both
- Highscores usage
- Difficulty changing
- Game over screen
- Level selection
- Timed modes
- Other menu entries
- Pausing
- In game notifications

Having hard numbers would make it easier to identify major
inconsistencies and also to see trends in the behaviour of different
types of games. Without them, we end up discussing the issue using
sentences that start with "It seems like..", "I'm under the impression
that most games..", etc.

Parker

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:37, Richard Hartmann
<richih.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> another thing to keep in mind: The order in which items are
> placed in the settings menu. Point in case, the theme
> selection seems to be in a different place for each KDE
> game ;)
>
> Wouldn't a meta-library that places those items etc make
> sense? Then, an application could just select what kind
> of menu items it wants to display and let the lib do the
> rest. This could generally make sense for the configure
> applet some games come with, etc.
>
>
> Richard
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