[Kde-games-devel] New card game for kde, first contribution

[Olivier Attaque]

Hi everyone,

Let me introduce myself first as this is my first ever post for kde, my
name is Olivier Felt (but Oli is fine), I'm a french software engineer and
I currently live in Brisbane, Australia.
I wanted to contribute to kde for a long time and I finally did the step a
few weeks ago by working on a new card game based on kPat, but slighty
different than an usual kPat type of game.
I have others plans/ideas (kdeedu, plasma, krecipes) but it seemed like a
good place to start contributing for kde and get familiar (again) with c++.

I set up a virtual box based on the kubuntu CI iso for my development
purposes and I succeed to go through all steps to be able to build kpat.
I was also able to develop most of the features I wanted for this game,
even if i still struggle with some points.
But before going any further, I wanted to show you my progress and ask you
some questions i have in mind and one particularly to drive my future
developments.

As I said I'm working on a new card game for kPat but slighty different as
it is a 2 player card game, I'm talking about crapette or also known as
Russian Bank/Klondike Battle which I named "Krapette". You can see the
rules here http://www.pagat.com/patience/crapette.html. It is a really fun
and challenging patience game.
My first and main concern is if i should develop this new game inside of
kPat or aside.

Krapette really fit inside kPat because it's basicaly a Klondike but played
by 2 players, with the same idea and rules of a patience game. Therefore I
use a lot of the logic from kPat (dealer.cpp, patpile.cpp, pileutils etc).
I play to it the same way i would play to klondike or spider. But it is a 2
players game (I developed a basic AI as a start) and it might need a few
modifications to kPat to solve some remaining issues I have (for example :
win/lost message, using KgDifficulty, change what appear in the
statusBar..) or not maybe I can already do it but don't know how yet.

How could I share my work with you so you can try it to have a better idea
of what I'm talking about ?
I was thinking of creating a personal clone of kPat but I need a developer
account for that, for that developer account I need previous work on kde
but this is my first one.
I created a patch that i can send you via the mailing list otherwise.

Best Regards,

Olivier Felt
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