johannol

Few months ago, SVG met Blinken with the original Danny Allen’s artwork. It has a nice design and ideas, but was not in an oxygen style, and has a small issue, the selection “light” was not visible enought in game. See it bellow (the yellow is the selected one)

Yesterday, Blinken met Oxygen. The selected/light one is the green. The background need to be improved, but you’ll got the idea.

KDEgames and KDEedu are often talking, sharing ideas and tips, Annma and me also for the release stuffs, and also because severals dev are the same But it was my firsts commits in KDEedu, so, happy to meet you, KDEEDU!

(And i saw others nice artworks from Dannya to oxygenize )

Yesterday, we did the kdegames review. We succeeded in having a common point of view about which games should be keep and move, how hard it can be. Here the results:

Improved KDE3 games kept for KDE4.0:
- knetwalk
- kgoldrunner
- kolf
- katomic
- konquest
- kpat
- kspaceduel
- lskat
- kbattleship
- kblackbox
- klines
- kreversi
- kbounce
- kmahjongg
- ksame
- kmines
- kshisen
- kwin4

New in kdegames:

- ksquares
welcome in kdegame !
- kiriki
succeded in kdereview, so, welcome in kdegame !
- ksudoku
move to kdereview for 15 days
- bovo
we have to contact the autor to see if he want to move on kdereview days

Status still unknown:

- ktuberling
Candidate to be removed, but this is a really needed game. We are looking to see if it can be saved
- ksirtet (tetris clone)
keep libksirtet and ksirtet but we’ll remove them if ksirtet will not progress before the 1st june
- kbackgammon
a candidate for removal if the maintainer does not work on it before the beta.

Not ready for KDE4.0 (must mature more to be in 4.1)
- kollision
- ksirk

Moved to playground:
This is too soon for the black hole (all this game compile, are using cmake…) and can be resurrected:
- atlantik
- kfouleggs
- klickety
- kpoker
- kenolaba
- kasteroids
- ksnake
- ksokoban
- kjumpingcube
- ktron

We know this will generate some comments, some games are liked, even needed for educational purpose, but the survey we did mandate us for one thing: “quality over quantity”. We tried to do both of course… but the project was in bad shape. With the new contributors, the nice energies and feelings putted in this project, we saved already much games, and make them much better (code, artwork, usability…). It is not possible to do more without sacrifice quality or get (again) others contributors. We had to make choices, we did.