On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:12 +0200, Thomas H.P. Andersen wrote: > I'd love to have this game included in gnome-games. Same goes for a > kakuro game and other new cool games (gbrainy looks cool too). Getting > sudoku and chess in was really nice. However, we have to consider both > the total size of the games and the experience from the last inclusion > of new games. We still have crasher bugs left in those. New games need > to be stable and really well tested before they go in. I wasn't around for the discussion/flamewar/whatever when the last new game was brought into gnome-games, so could someone enlighten me as to what basically happened? Was it just that they were unstable? > Taking an "aisleriot" approach for gnome-sudoku is a possibility but I > think it will require a lot of work. We'll also have to come up with a > name for the application that covers all the games included. That > would imo be bad as we'd hide the sudoku/hitori/kakuro names from the > menu list. Agreed. > If we want new games in the collection we would either have to drop > other games or expand the collection size. I'm not sure the latter is > an option. There are games that I personally would like to exchange > for newer games. However I've read comments like "I'm going to kill > anybody that removes game X from gnome-games" so I guess we should do > another vote like Andreas did. I'm waiting for my @gnome.org account > to set up a blog to get such a vote going. > > - Thomas H.P. Andersen Is it just a filesize thing? If it is, I could point out that the 0.1 tarball of Hitori is only 370KiB in size, and the inclusion of an icon -- which is the only bitmap graphic I plan to include (once someone makes one) -- would only increase this a little. Philip > On 9/17/07, Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote: > > Thanks. :-) > > It wouldn't be possible to incorporate it into gnome-sudoku without a > > full rewrite, as Hitori's written in C, while Sudoku's written in > > Python. However, I don't really mind either way if it's integrated; it's > > something about which I would have to talk to the maintainer of Sudoku. > > > > Philip > > > > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 14:31 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > > > I like your game: it's simple and effective. The Pango font renderer > > > lends a level of clarity to the game's display. What about > > > incorporating this game variant in to Sudoku a la the way that > > > Aisleriot has many Solitare variations? That would avoid adding a new > > > code base to maintain while giving Sudoku the plug-ability to add new > > > number-based puzzle games easily. > > > > > > On 9/16/07, Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I recently wrote a little game to play Hitori on your computer > > > [1], and > > > I was wondering what you guys thought of it, being the > > > gnome-games > > > people. > > > If there's any chance to it to be included in gnome-games I'd > > > be > > > grateful, although I realise that "gnome-games is too big > > > already" rule > > > might still be in place. Otherwise, I'd just be happy to > > > receive > > > feedback/ideas on the game. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Philip > > > > > > [1] http://tecnocode.co.uk/?page=blog&action=view_item&id=60 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Games-list mailing list > > > Games-list gnome org > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/games-list > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Games-list mailing list > > Games-list gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/games-list > > > > > >
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