News about games
Writing by johann.ollivierlapeyre on Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 6:28 am
It’s maybe time to give some news about game’s SVG. And these are good 
First, some screenshots was published here or on the Dot in the “road of KDE4″. Some was with really unfinished stuffs, some was more reals. Of course, we’re not posting screenshots for everything, it’s good to keep that for later, but yes, things are improving.
After that, i’d like to say it’s longuer to specify how SVG should be and code that in C++ than only draw them. This mean that after our SVG port job, some SVG should be improved. But this could be after the 4.0 release. Other people could (i hope will) do other SVG styles we hope after the release.
A very good news. After the talk with aaron, i understood KDE4 port and SVGization are not affected by the feature freeze. This mean a lot to us. This could allow us to release 70% to 100% of the KDE3.5’s games. Without that, this could be less than 50%.
Other good news, Eugene T. is doing a very good job on backgrounds, see for example the kbattleship one (and it’s hard to draw “the sea”):
He is always here, creative, and adapt himself to the KDE4’s needs. Working together on kdegame’s artwork is a real pleasure. And i hope we will continue that on others places (kdebase and others apps). Working with (the reals) C++ is also a pleasure (from KDEgames, KDEbase…) . They are wanting their baby to be the nicer possible, and they are always trying to do what we need. Thanks to them.
For our status, we have 9 games almost done (from artwork point of view, not usabillity or c++), some others games are running tmp SVG, at least in part, and there are still some unmaintained games that risk to be dropped for KDE4.0 ( kjumpingcube, klickety, ksirtet, ksnake, ksokoban, ktron…).
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Comment by patrick
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 7:08 am
Hi,
just thought you lot would be interested to hear that nVidia released Gelato 2.1 to be available for free. The newspaper claims it’s possible to run it on Linux.
Comment by shamaz
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 8:18 am
The new KBattleship artwark is REALLY good !
About unmaintained games, I think it’s better to drop them (at least for the moment), and to focus on the quality of the others.
Though, this is just my personal opinion 
Bonne chance pour la suite et merci de tenir les gens au courrant !
Comment by johann.ollivierlapeyre
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 9:09 am
“I think it’s better to drop them (at least for the moment), and to focus on the quality of the others.”
In fact we did a survey, and one ofthe result was “quality over quantity”. So we are doing game after game, and try to make as much as possible (and will drop the others), but we don’t want 30 halfs finisheds games. But this not the time yet to drop them. For example, a guy could come, and say “i don’t want XXX be dropped, i’ll maintain it”, fix it, port it to SVG… there are still the time. Not much, but still.
Comment by ask
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 9:13 am
I agree with shamaz, of course in the fat that the backgrounds for the games in kde 4 really rock!
But also in the suggestion to drop the unsupported games, or stick them away out of sight. It takes only a few bad programs to spoil the overall “feel” of a desktop. You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
And the people that want the unsupported games will be ones familiar with linux and kde, and they will know how to install what they want.
Keep up the excellent work. It really is appreciated!
Comment by johann.ollivierlapeyre
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 9:25 am
We are all agree about the suggestion to drop the unsupported games. We have a review team of 4 peoples (pino, albert, kulow and me) who review the game and drop the unmaintained / ugly one (…).
But this will happen later, before the alpha, or/and between beta/RC for the final decision. Because theses game can still be saved.
Comment by Torsten Rahn
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 10:52 am
The ship needs a shadow Except for that it looks quite good.
Comment by Louis
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 10:55 am
I’m glad that Kbattleship made the cut. My 8y/o son and I play it over our home networkall the time. We were both excited to see the sweet new graphics.
Comment by johann.ollivierlapeyre
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 11:02 am
Yes, the ship really needs a shadow, that’s disturb me too, and even moved water arround it. This will be done.
And there are also 3 others ship to draw
Comment by foo
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 11:52 am
Nice gfx, but I haven’t seen a shark shadow of the size of a battle ship, yet.
Comment by johann.ollivierlapeyre
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 11:57 am
“I haven’t seen a shark shadow of the size of a battle ship, yet.”
Right. But who is talking about earth?
Comment by shamaz
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 12:39 pm
This is not a shark, it’s a giant whale !
And about shadows, I also thought about it.
Comment by chimai
Made Wednesday, 14 of March , 2007 at 7:52 pm
I wouldn’t like to be swimming near this shark… O___O
Great job BTW !
Comment by Gamer
Made Wednesday, 23 of May , 2007 at 1:19 pm
I will set that as my desktop wallpaper. Its looks nice with dolphins in blue sea.
