Re: GNOME Breakout initial public development release

[Michael Pearson <alcaron ozemail com au>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 02:05:02AM -0500, Elliot Lee wrote:
> Seems very nice - no installation problems, clean code, not horribly
> buggy.
Good to hear.

> 1. Would be nice to have mouse control of the paddle.
I'll probably be implimenting this tonight.

> 2. I really want bigger playing fields (I'm remembering Epic's Super Blast
> here - could do full screen on a wide variety of screen resolutions).
A bigger playing field would be easy to impliment, but a variable size playing
field might be a problem. By a bigger playing field, do you mean more blocks,
wider/taller blocks, or more whitespace?

> Here is a stupid little patch that might help things (not like I tested
> it, but since I had a fun time playing I felt obligated to give this a try
>:)
Thanks, but it didn't work :( I'll probably also be working on this bug
extensively tonight, anyway. I'd like to get it fixed properly, rather than
have it change the direction if it detects the occurance of the bug.

Thanks for your comments :)

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