http://johann.pwsp.net Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:19:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry for the delay, but hard to find an internet connection. [gallery=3] http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/07/01/2007-akademy-day0/ As some previous KDE dude did, here is the desktop where i hack/draw on KDE, and it's nice view. I am living a Brest in France. [gallery=2] The 2d purpose of it is to test my new wordpress gallery plugin ;) Yes, akademy is coming :D http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/06/28/my-place/ 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, ... http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/05/11/blinken-meet-oxygen/ 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 - ... http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/05/02/which-games-are-moving/ The kbattleship rewrite is going well ;) 3 artists (Eugene T, Robert Wadley and me) and 2 dev (Paolo Capriotti and Ruphy). I must say that Paolo Capriotti was very reactive to implement the lastest ideas and artwork changes (ship under water, several steep for the hit...). The new fire from ... http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/04/22/kbattleship-a-winning-team/ Today, to launch game, there are several way to do. Some game are asking a crtl+N, other to go on a menu... or go in a config dialog to set a right player mode, before to play. The other day, my nephews thought kbattleship was broken, because they couldn't launch ... http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/04/09/a-new-game-starter/ Only some ideas to simplify the ksuduku UI. In my mind, the difficulty is saved for each entry, and each one keep their config. But the user has only 1 screen before to play, and a less frighting one. Hope the devs will like it. PS: In part based on oxygen ... http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/03/16/ksuduku/ 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 ... http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/03/14/news-about-games/ As you already know, we are trying to convert every KDE's games to SVG, and harmonize them to comply with the Oxygen style. But this is a huge work, there are currently 30 games in the KDE repository, and some new ones are coming. The migration process is often this one: - ... http://johann.pwsp.net/2007/02/07/news-on-gamess-wallpapers/ Martyn "Cirrus" Clement contacted us on kde-artists to propose his help to make new sounds. He also recetly won a contest for Mandriva. This one, and others, are on his website http://www.martyn-circus.com/ . As far as we know, nobody else is doing sound. He started to do 3 sounds for Kopete. ... http://johann.pwsp.net/2006/11/23/kde-sounds/