glChess and GnomeSudoku are chosen for 2.18: GnomeGames
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It's great that the public is asked for input. My hope is that the GNOME maintainers are willing to change more than just deprecate one game and introduce a new one though. I never play any of the GNOME games at all, I don't like them. I have two reasons for that: 1. They don't look sexy, graphics-wise 2. The choice of games could be better, and some of the games are not very popular (with the exception of the card games and Tetris). If I put it bluntly, I think everything except the card games and tetris should be dropped. I suggest the following solutions: 1. Beef up the sexiness with some better graphics (for example, this tetris clone (Tetra Blocks) has blocks which a look a lot better than the dull ones in Gnometris), throw some Cairo stuff in the mix. Currently I'd say that only Attaxx, Five or More and Tali have nice graphics, some of the other games need quite some improvement, especially Iagno. 2. Introduce more popular games. Card games are sort of compulsory (I think three card games is a bit too much though, one would be enough, or just integrate the three games in one game) , MS Windows also has a card game and most older computer users like my mom love card games. Tetris is sort of essential as well. I think the suggestions listed above here are good ones, if GNOME games has Chess included I'd certainly be more interested in playing (in my opinion a 2D chess game would be good, a 3D chess game like glChess would be overkill). Some other board games I'd love to see are Draughts/Checkers and Go. I also miss a Breakout-like game, especially the Breakout clone DX Ball was so much fun. And how about Frozen Bubble? Maybe a GNOMEified version could be included in GNOME games? I also read that the GNOME Games maintainers are picky about what to include because the gnome-games module is already so large in size. How about making a gnome-games-extras module? Or simply make the entire gnome-games module optional, that the module won't be restrained as much by the size. I'd propose the following: move everything except the card games and tetris to gnome-games-extras, so that gnome-games would only contain the most popular games like card games, tetris, chess and sudoku for example. All those more exotic games could be moved to gnome-games-extras then. - Alexander van Loon
Alexander, you are too harsh. IMHO, it's not about "sexy graphics" in GNOME games, it's only about pleasant, recreational pastimes. Like in Windows or in KDE, you have to have some simple games available out of the box. I vote for your added Atomix, as I appreciate it (and KDE has an implementation too, so I believe we should have one in GNOME), but I also use Aisleriot, Five or more, Four-in-a-row, or Same Gnome when I wait for something to compile or anything lengthy is undergoing, yet I can afford a game with low CPU usage. - Béranger
Surely any prospective game can't depend on things that Gnome itself does not depend upon, ruling out GL based games like glChess and Cairo based games like gPlanarity. On top of that, there is also a lot of Gnome Games [not a bad thing] causing, once you install a few other games, the Games menu gets very cluttered very quickly. Perhaps Gnome games could be grouped by category (e.g. Games->Card Games) to make it more manageable? I would expect a Gnome game be Gnome/Gtk oriented, rather than things like Frozen Bubble which is really a standalone game. Personally, I'd love to see Atomix, GnomeGo, a chess game, a sudoko game all go in although the call is for a single game only. - Charles Goodwin
- Good graphics is a goal for me ! Gnome became sexy with stuff like Clearlooks default theme (for example) and it's a way to follow ... it's not necessery to use oGL/Cairo to have good looks but for many gnome-game, a little graphic refresh is realy needed... The game set in "next-gen" OS from Redmond or Cupertino or from futur kde4 arrive with beautiful presentation. In comparison gnome 2.18 game while appear like the very old-school one. Does it possible to make a "Refresh graphics contribution Call" in parallel of this new games plan ?
Hello GG maintainers. I'm the maintainer of Multiplication Puzzle and noticed that it was suggested for inclusion, by at least one person anyway. It hasn't been updated in a while, so I wanted to forestall claims of it being completely abandoned. I proposed its inclusion in Gnome Games a while ago and still think it would be a great fit. It's short, clean, and "thinky" like many of the other games, yet fills the empty math niche in the current stable. Thanks for the consideration anyway!