[Kde-games-devel] The iPhenomenon

[Gaël (aka Kleag)]

Hi,

As soon as I get my Nokia N900 (when my contract with my current operator 
finishes next april) or its successor, I'll try to join the train and port 
KsirK to it. So, I will probably have to work on some libraries at this moment 
to help make them work if it's not already done. KsirK is mainly based on drag 
& drop interaction and should be easy to use on a small touch screen.
I will maybe have to think to a zoom-in-zoom-out interface that would help to 
obtain an overall view of the map on a small area.

Regards,

Gaël
Le vendredi 13 août 2010 03:37:59, Ian Wadham a écrit :
> A year or two ago my wife bought an iPhone, one of several mobile phones
> she has owned, including a high-end Nokia previously, but the iPhone was
> the first on which she was able to use all the functions, or at least
> willing to make the effort.  On the iPhone she plays Sudoku, color Sudoku
> (using colors instead of numbers), Mahjongg solitaire (in 3-D) and
> Whirlyword (a game to extract 3-6 letter words from 6 randomized letters).
> 
> Recently, in June, she went out and bought an iPad, on the first day of
> availability in Australia.  Now she has given up using KDE/Linux.  She
> does all of her browsing, gmailing and game-playing on one iBox or the
> other and is starting to manage photos on the iPad.  She even reads
> books on the iPad.  This is a woman in her sixties we are talking about!
> 
> Yesterday came the killer ...  We have been discussing Palapeli on this
> list, but when our four-year old grandson was round at our house, she
> brought up this iApp called Tozzle and he was entranced ...
> 
> http://appshopper.com/games/tozzle-toddlers-favorite-puzzle
> 
> It's not the same game as Palapeli ...  In Tozzle you just have to fit
> shapes into holes, but the quality of the graphics, animations and sound
> effects is amazing!  Watch a two-year old playing it on Youtube ...
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1GNMKtkHxA
> 
> One key to the iPhenomenon and its ease of use is the touch-screen.
> I wonder when/whether they are supported in KDE and when/whether
> we will have touch-screen laptops.  The iPad has a few limitations ...
> no USB port, difficult to print anything and it is even less flexible than
> Linuxes at handling Microsoft-oriented and other proprietary-format
> attachments received on emails.  I get a couple of forwards per week
> from my wife asking me to play the attachments.
> 
> What I am wondering is whether KDE Games will ever be able to catch
> up or keep up with this kind of stuff?  Or should I switch to writing
> iApps?
> 
> All the best, Ian W.
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