[Kde-games-devel] Go game

[Matthew Woehlke]

Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> I'm new to this list but like to start right away and introduce KGo, a Go 
> board game (and frontend to GnuGo) I'm currently writing.

Rock on! I love Go, but never have any humans to play with locally, and 
have been too lazy to go hunting a decent computer client. Having one in 
kdegames will be awesome :-D. (I'm not familiar with GNU Go, is it human 
vs. human only or is there human vs. computer also?)


> It's already themable,

Cool. Do you have artwork already? I imagine the KReversi theme would be 
fairly easy to adapt, and IMO it has the right look for a "traditional" 
theme already.

> can interakt with all go engines supporting the  go text protocol (GTP)

I sort-of asked this already, but I hope you plan to (eventually at 
least) support human vs. human at the same machine, if this isn't 
already done? (I.e. it's not *just* a GTP front-end?)

> I would be glad if someone could check out the code, take a look at it and 
> decide what steps are necessary to get it into final shape (and into 
> playground). It's currently hosted in a bazaar branch on launchpad.net:
> 
> bzr checkout lp:~sasch-pe/+junk/kgo

If it seems to be in half-decent shape already (no severe bugs, 
playable) I would think you can put it in playground already. That will 
help with laze people (read: me ;-) ) that don't want to have to mess 
with external repositories.

(I *hope* it's ok to put WIP stuff in playground, anyway, when/if I ever 
get around to KZebra, I intend to drop it in playground as soon as it 
builds and displays a window ;-), so all development will be totally 
public and all history will be in KDE's svn. As far as I know it's fine, 
i.e. playground is pretty much anything-goes, so long as its relevant to 
KDE.)

-- 
Matthew
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