Re: New Tali-like game

["Catalin Francu" <cata francu com>]

Hi Andreas,

I don't have a website for the game, but here is a link to a
screenshot (I wrote a few words about the game in my blog):

http://bp1.blogger.com/_tlOuGaA_mXY/R6KLtVUsaeI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/oMCLpVHq2y0/s1600-h/Screenshot-Yams.png

I completely understand that gnome-games isn't looking to add more
games, that's fine. I was hoping for help with any of the items I
mentioned before, in case you have any standard documents that you
hand out to contributors. For example, how to pack my game in an RPM
that would depend on gnome-games, so I can reuse the graphics. Or, if
you are unable to run the game, I can look into that and debug it.

Thanks,
Catalin

On Feb 10, 2008 11:41 AM, Andreas Røsdal <andreasr gnome org> wrote:
> 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
> >
>