Missing games and levels in KSokoban?

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi Ian,

Am Freitag, 26. August 2022, 09:02:56 CEST schrieb Ian Wadham:
> Hi Friedrich,
> 
> One of the things I disliked about KSokoban, which I played in KDE 2 and KDE
> 3 times, was that a new maintainer came along and replaced all the games
> and levels with an entirely different set (called Sasquatch?). Although the
> new levels were good, the earlier levels were nice because they were graded
> from easy to hard and gave everyone, including little kids, access to the
> game.
> 
> I’ll have a dig through the repository in the next day or two and see what
> the current situation is re sets of levels.

Okay. Already saw that in the ML archive discussions and made a mental note, 
but with lower priority currently compared to theming. Even more after I 
discovered https://ksokoban.online which helped me solve levels where I first 
thought "this is impossible, the data or game must be broken" :P and was to 
give up working on reviving releases.
(totally could understand also why people even filed bug reports against 
ksokoban about "level x is not solvable", as I later saw, could have been me 
:P)

> Also, I think the game is a good one to have a Game Editor added.

The author of easySok agreed there, I saw :) Too bad that app also stalled.

Thought the few who would like to do levels can use a plain texteditor, as the 
supported level format is plain text based, no? See also
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/ksokoban/ksokoban/loading-external-levels.html

The whole level loading and management support though needs an overwhole 
indeed, to make things more discoverable, understandable & usable.

Would be my own next target after theming, together with bringing back those 
lost levels where possible. But only later this year, or early next. But agree 
this is a rather weak spot.

And having a dedicated separate editor for easy level design would be neat. As 
well as integration with online communities already collecting & managing 
levels. But that is a lot of work I do not see myself currently having time 
left for, TODO list already full :)

Cheers
Friedrich