[Kde-games-devel] KSnakeDuel as a GSoC project?

[Kleag]

Hello,

I loved ktron and would be very happy to see it alive again. I 
would say that as you stated just port it to kde4 is not 
enough for gsoc and that, even if your addition ideas are 
very good, its "simple charm" is its force... So, I hope that 
others will have more encouraging opinions for gsoc, but 
anyway, please port it :-)

Regards,

Kleag
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 13:00:44 Alan Alpert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a student interested in applying for Google Summer 
of Code and one of
> my ideas was reviving KSnakeDuel(Formerly KTron) for 
KDE4. It seems though
> that simply porting an app from KDE3 to KDE4 would not 
be a three month
> full-time project, and I would be interested in any advice 
you might have,
> including whether this is a good idea for a GSoC 
application and whether my
> assumption that simply porting it wouldn't be enough is 
correct.
>
> I could add another KSnakeDuel related task onto my 
GSoC application to go
> with the porting but I'm not sure what more the game 
needs. I have plenty
> of crazy ideas, such as a single player story mode, 3D 
variant, arbitrary
> (probably integer) number of snakes, handicapping 
systems, LAN multiplayer,
> user-defined snake textures and user-defined polygons for 
snake shape. I am
> somewhat concerned however that simply throwing crazy 
stuff into the
> program might detract from its current simple charm 
without actually making
> the game any better.
>
> Any advice on what would be sensible to add in to a GSoC 
application for
> porting KSnakeDuel to get it to be about three months of 
coding, or just
> opinions on which (if any) of my crazy ideas are not all 
that crazy, even
> when said aloud, would be greatly appreciated.
>
> --
> Alan Alpert
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