New KBreakout theme
After less than a week since I put KBreakout into playground Eugene Trounev (aka it-s), a kdegames artist, already made an awesome theme for it =) here is how it looks like now:
I also took over maintainership of the KDE game KNetWalk, as it needs some love and polishing before it’s ready for the KDE4.0 release.
January 18, 2008 at 7:10 pm
As I understand, you’re the current maintainer of the game KNetWalk. I’ve noticed something minor, which still gets in the way. I want to avoid the hassle of registering at Bugzilla, as this is something minor. The following statement is from the manual: “There is only one possible correct solution for every game.”. This is simply not true (and yes, even under the assumption that all the “wires” need to be connected). I can provide a screenshot of such a situation if you’re interested. There are two ways of correcting this bug:
1. remove the aforementioned statement from the manual,
2. fix the algorithm generating the puzzle.
I haven’t looked into the algorithm too deeply, but I suppose it won’t be very easy to guarantee uniqueness of the solution – only the existence of such a solution.
If you’re interested in the details, please write something here – I’ll then write a mail or sth…
January 18, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Hi, I’m planning to rewrite most of the game for kde 4.1.
One thing I wanted to do is to eliminate the assumption that also cables need to be connected, I get to many bug reports about that, and it creates unnecessary confusion. To do that I need to do e tree search anyway so I could also eliminate games that have more than one solution.
You are sure right? Maybe send me a screenshot at fela.kde@gmail.com . Looking at the code I actually wondered why the uniqueness of the solution was guaranteed, I couldn’t prove it, it just _seemed_ to always work.
Thanks for taking the time contacting me.
bye,
- fela
January 19, 2008 at 3:55 am
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July 20, 2008 at 10:25 am
[...] werran Wiillä pelanneena ja ohjaimeen tottuneena piti päästä heti kokeilemaan pelejä: KDE4:n KBreakOut toimi ohjaimella kivasti. Samoin KSame. Käytännössä mikä tahansa peli mitä pelkällä [...]
August 21, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Sorry to be negative, but your shot of KNetWalk looks absolutely hideous. The crisp pixelly little game that sits nicely in the corner of my screen has been replaced by a swollen, visually noisy grotesque filled with unnecessary gloss. You’ve lost a user.