[Kde-games-devel] Game introduction: Nonogram

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimarts 13 Maig 2008, Tom Vollerthun va escriure:
> Hi,
>
> my name is Tom Vollerthun. I am in the progress of developing a puzzle game
> for my wife. It is a nonogram-game. You can find examples of it at
> http://www.blindchicken.com/~ali/games/puzzles.html

We already have a nonogram program at /trunk/playground/games/kpicross/ (at 
least it seems the same idea to me)

Jeremy was working on it i think, you are welcome to join forces with him or 
convince him that yours is better and make him join you ;-)

> The game is already kind of usable (you can play), although it really has
> an ugly GUI (de-uglification is left for later).
>
> The actual puzzle-data is packaged into tar files which are located and
> loaded at runtime, so that game packages can be provided. Together with the
> game data, I want to have some kind of description file which can contain
> the name, some descriptive text (perhaps an artistic license?) and a hint.
> Unfortunately I am not at all sure on how to go about designing these
> description files in a way that makes them accessible to translations.
>
> Should the Strings be all in one file like Name=..., Name[dk]=... as in the
> desktop-files? Should there be subdirectories for each locale? 
I propose to use desktop files with 
Name=
Description=
tha are default .desktop fields and our translation system is already prepared 
to translate them


> How can I determine the preferred locale?
You don't, you use kde and it does it for you :-)


> You see, there are quite some questions :)
>
>
> annma from #kde-devel said, if the game was somewhere in svn
> (playground/games perhaps?) the chance would be better that someone could
> help me. Since I would love to see my game as a part of KDE some day, I
> hereby wanted to introduce it to you.
>
> How should I proceed to get the code (and stuff) into svn?
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Get_a_SVN_Account

Albert

> Perhaps make a tarfile and post it here so you can have a look at it?
>
> Thanks for reading and kind regards,
> Tom Vollerthun