Re: Maintainership of gnome-games

[Nicu Buculei <nicu_gnome nicubunu ro>]

Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 08:55 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > Actually i have some ideas about modernizing gnobots2, but i am not sure 
> > is enough to make it fun: http://nicubunu.ro/pictures/gnobots/robo.svgz
>
> I very much like your idea. If we can implement it without too much CPU
> overhead, lets do it.

There are a lot of ideas in the mockup:
- for pretty graphics, 16x16px is not enough for sprites, so i made some 
at 32x32 with gradients, smooth edges and shadows. Scaled versions of 
the same theme at 24x24 and 16x16 are included as reference;
- if the grid size is 32x32 then possibly the game window would be too 
large, so i experimented with 32x32px sprites an a 24x24 and 16x16 grid. 
 In this case, z-order matter and have to be considered. 16x16 grid 
look IMO too busy;
- another idea is to alter the perspective from the traditional top-down 
view to a slightly isometric one. I found it better looking but the 
windows have to be even larger. This can be combined with a smaller grid 
(24x24), where the z-order have to be considered again.

Simple top-down view with bigger sprites is already doable, the game was 
recently made resizeable 
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80240#c27) so it is just a 
matter of changing the defaults.
For other modes (different grid size, isometric) there may be additional 
CPU usage, but i can't say how much (and neither i am able to translate 
the mockup in code).

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