On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:24:04AM +0200, Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > What makes this more problematic than Freeciv, Pingus, frozen-bubble, > > ***tris, lbreakout, etc? > > Actually it shouldn't be more problematic. Especially since all the > former are computer games whereas RoboWhatever is a board game, and much > of it's charm comes from that ;)
Actually, I think it's more common to patent board games. The official Robo Rally homepage is http://www.wizards.com/roborally/welcome.asp, for reference. The makers are Wizards of the Coast (also the MTG and DND people, I think) > I retitled the bug to RFP on your suggestion, > although i no longer request it to be packaged actually. Installing is > as easy as "tar xzf", and the game has a few bugs (disappearing / > unuseable flags in ctf, sometimes irritating, non-predicteable behaviour > of the conveyors etc.) Hm, maybe I should do a rewrite in a sane language. [0] The graphics are nice, and having them available would probably make writing the actual game a lot easier. /me suppresses the urge to try out the Scheme SDL bindings he wrote last weekend and goes back to his work.. Daniel [0] ie, Not Tcl. -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | swapon /dev/ram | \------- Listener-supported public radio -- NPR -- http://www.npr.org --------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
