Re: Lights Off merged, off by default

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> Robert Carr has written and merged a new game which utilizes
> JavaScript and Clutter to implement the rules of a game which I
> remember finding at local electronics hobby shops as a child. I
> believe the common name for the game is "Lights Out". Robert Calls
> this implementation "Lights Off". A video can be seen below:
>
> <http://vimeo.com/2318879?pg=embed&sec=2318879>
>
> It's damn sexy and the code base is tiny. There's a few integration
> steps that remain to be done such as add the app. to the suite of
> translatable strings (there's only one translatable string right now,
> the window title) and implement a gnome-games style menu that contains
> access to Help and About. i18n also needs a little work.
>
> You might be thinking to yourself, "Javascript?! How!?". Well, that's
> a good question. This particular game will depend on Seed
> (Webkit-JavaScript, GObject Introspection and GIR Repository) which I
> have not yet proposed as a dependency. So, this game is optional and
> will have to remain off by default to comply with the dependency rules
> of modules in the desktop suite.
>
> I feel that this game is very much in the spirit of what is going on
> with regard to Gnome Shell, and generally Gnome 3.0.


Hello,

What are the game rules of Lights Off?

Alghough it looks promising, I don't think the game is ready to 
be distributed with any stable gnome-games releases yet, because of the 
issues you pointed out yourself...

 - Andreas