Re: New Tali-like game

[Andreas Røsdal <andreasr gnome org>]

Hello Catalin,

Do you have a website for yams where I can see some screenshots?
I'm currently not able to try playing your game.

Although I haven't tried your game, I doubt that there is room for two 
very similar Tali games in gnome-games, since it would be a waste to have 
duplicated code for almost the same game.

I still think that there isn't room for more games in gnome-games. :-)


 - Andreas


On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Catalin Francu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to submit a new game for your consideration. "Yams" is an
> extended, multiple-column version of Gnome Tali (from which it borrows
> the graphics and layout). Yams is written in PyGTK and is available
> under the GNU GPL. To try out the game, please see the attached zip
> file or download it from SVN at
> <http://voronet.francu.com/repos/yams>.
>
> Your wiki page at <http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames/Contributing> says
> that there is no more room for new games in the gnome-games package. I
> would, however, appreciate your help refining the game in various
> ways, if you can help with any of them:
>
> - Packaging for various distributions. I only used RedHat and Fedora
> since 1999 and I know very little about the RPM format, and nothing
> about other package formats.
> - Improving the manual. I believe it is complete and clear, but then
> I've been playing the game (with real dice) for 20 years now.
> - General suggestions regarding the game's usability.
> - Sharing the data with other Gnome applications (the Gnome Tali dice
> images in particular).
> - Any other hints for "Gnomification" that you might have.
>
> Thanks!
> Catalin