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

[Olivier Attaque]

Hi, thanks for your reply !

I wasn't sure if we were allowed to use github with kde code but here we go
: https://github.com/olivattaque/krapette
You can see in the readme some points I still have to work on, and it
misses a few also (sometimes the ai can be stuck in a loop with the same
moves but the ai is very basic it was mostly to test the game).
It can also show what changes would it need to kpat (win/lost message,
statusbar, kgdifficulty for the ai..).
I know there is some bugs, I haven't really listed them yet because I'm
still working on the game.
Also be aware you may need to change the card theme you are using (!=
oxygen air) because some of the piles grows/spread right.

Thank you

Oli

2015-06-17 16:31 GMT+10:00 Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>:

> Hi Oli,
>
> see below for my response.
>
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 09:25:23 +1000
> Olivier Attaque <olivattaque at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You don't need a developer account for that. Since I believe KPat is
> maintained
> in a git repository
> ( https://www.kde.org/applications/games/kpatience/development ), you can
> set up a clone on a code-sharing site:
>
> *
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_source_code_hosting_facilities
>
> * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_%28software%29
>
> The one that seems the most popular currently is GitHub, and I indeed do
> enjoy using it, but there are many others. Anyway, people can pull
> changesets
> from that modified clone of your there and merge them if they want.
>
> > I created a patch that i can send you via the mailing list otherwise.
> >
>
> Ah, I'm not sure if the mailing list is the most appropriate venue for
> that. A
> remote and modified repository will be a better solution I think.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
>
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