[Kde-games-devel] Fwd: GSoC student

[phan huy]

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From: phan huy <diepvien00thayh at gmail.com>
Date: 2009/3/2
Subject: Re: GSoC student
To: Stefan Majewsky <majewsky at gmx.net>


OK, I'm going to forward this email to kde-games-devel now. Since all
Mancala-like games have very similar gameplay (with the same structure of
board, objective..), I think we could implement a generic game. then, the
number of "hole" in the board, the "goal" of game can be changed a little to
fit with each local variants. Therefore,  the gameplay isn't very hard to
implement. The more important part of the game is the interface (with local
boards, sounds, background...), I think these things may take me a long
period to study and to represent them correctly.

2009/3/1 Stefan Majewsky <majewsky at gmx.net>

On Sonntag 01 März 2009 11:24:19 you wrote:
> > Dear Stefan Majewsky,
> > My name is Phan Quoc Huy, student in University Of Science, Viet Nam
> > I've just update the GSoC 2009 page with my idea, It's about creating a
> new
> > game for KDE4 which is called "Mancala" game. It's a board game found in
> > many cultures around the world. I wrote this email to ask if you think
> this
> > project is sufficient for KDE4. Please have a look on the idea and tell
> me
> > if you like it! I have very good performance in graphic design plus
> > experiences in using many GUI toolkit such as wxwidget, gtk, swing, swt
> > (using both Python and C/C++, java) and also QT(just a little), hence I
> > think that I can implement this game with no troubles.
>
> Thank you for your mail. I think it would be best to forward your request
> to
> our mailing list at kde-games-devel at kde.org to let the complete kdegames
> team
> discuss about your idea. I can do that for you if you're okay with that.
>
> A Mancala game itself could be a nice addition to kdegames, esp. because
> its
> origin in non-western cultures.
>
> As for the proposal, I'm always concerned that a single game is enough for
> a
> GSoC project. (I for one implemented nearly all of KDiamond in three weeks,
> without prior knowledge of the KDE libraries.) However, Wikipedia coverage
> of
> Mancala indicates that it is a collective term for a whole category of
> games.
> Could you imagine to implement the game in a generic way (similar to KPat)
> to
> allow for easy addition of local variants?
>
> Greetings
> Stefan
>
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