[Kde-games-devel] KDEGames mukt.in 2008 presentation

[Inge Wallin]

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 23:35:33 Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> > Thanks for your input.
>
> Well, you asked for it :)
>
> While the slides are good, the notes in general have a somehow negative
> depiction of the games shipped with KDE2 and KDE3. While it is true that
> the new games use newer (and arguably better) technology, specially in
> the graphics department, I don't think the main point to be covered is
> the KDE3-games-were-bad-and-now-they-rock one, as this is debatable.

This is nothing new...  I think it was at Akademy in Glasgow last year, but 
could have been already in Dublin, since the games were shaping up pretty 
early compared to other KDE4 applications.

I was finished with something I had to do, and walked in to a talk about the 
games.  Interestingly enough the speaker was just talking about KReversi, my 
old application that I maintained for KDE3 at that time, and showing off some 
of the new features (scalability, theming) for the coming KDE4.  Cool!

But then he continued with showing a screenshot of KReversi from KDE3 with 
it's green background where I had tried to resemble the green felt of a real 
Reversi board.  And said something close to "... and compare this with the 
KReversi from KDE3!  Who would ever want to play something like that?!" I 
kept my mouth shut at that time, but I can tell you that I lost a lot of my 
drive to work on the games at that point.

	-Inge

PS.
I had also made sure that the code was *very* clear, so that's not really an 
argument for the KDE4 versions, even if I have to admit that they in general 
look much better -- including KReversi.

> KMahjongg for example has basically the same 10 year old code in its
> guts, and the facelift only rejuvenated it. So it is an evolution, and
> not a complete revolution. Previous releases deserve nothing but our
> full respect :)
> I think the speaker should try to present the evolution of the games as
> a natural process and a result of having a bigger team, which is
> building new stuff and standing over the shoulders of the previous
> releases. But on the whole it is a nice presentation, and summarizes
> some of the changes between 3 and 4 very well. It is just a matter of
> how to present it, I guess.
> Good job, Eugene!
>
> Regards,
> Mauricio Piacentini
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