new games to write for aisleriot (was Re: Maintainership of gnome-games)

["Vincent Povirk" <madewokherd+d41d gmail com>]

> You wouldn't happen to be using gmail?  Had to manually add those >> since
> the reply didn't quote properly.
I am using gmail.

> Take a look at goodsol aka Pretty Good Solitaire.  It contains hundreds of
> variations some more interesting than others and there is plenty of room
> to add more interesting and fun games to Aisleriot.  I prefer the easier
> open games with a bit more skill and less luck.
> http://goodsol.com/pgs/games.html
I'm sure there are, but I don't feel like looking around for games
that I can add. It doesn't seem worthwhile. It'd be cooler if someone
said "Gee, I wish Aisleriot had X." And then I'd write X. Then again,
I wanted Aisleriot to have Royal East (back when I was calling it Four
Seasons) and didn't think to ask for it. So I need people to not think
they're being a bother when they suggest things.

> I also quite like some of the games with a pyramid layout.
Uh huh.. I guess those are all in by now.

> The games I played most heavily were the classics, but I did enjoy playing
> the variations even a few times to keep things entertaining.  If you would
> like me to play around with goodsol again and recommend a few of my
> favourites (and a few I think would be reasonably easy to implement) I'd
> be happy to do so.
Sure, please do.

> There is also quite a bit of generalisation and code consolidation which
> might make it easier to create new variations.  A lot of the varations I
> (re)created were based on Klondike since it was much cleaner code and
> easier to override and reuse.  I would have liked to make a few variations
> of Freecell but it was too difficult to disentangle the autoplay code and
> generalise things.
That's probably not worth it unless you're making a new game that's
similar to a current one (in which case sharing code might be a good
idea) or fixing something in a current game that's similar to another
game that works better. I can't see a point to searching for existing
sets of games to consolidate.

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Vincent Povirk