Re: [pbmserv-dev] minimal graphic interface

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

It would be good to be able to do one stop shopping.  I have to admit that my non-graphical games get much less attention than my grpahical ones.  The main ones I am "missing" are the aforementioned Quoridor and Hive!

Ever since Yahoo mail in their wisdom decided to abandon fixed width fonts and I cannot figure out how to restore them, just having a website with a guaranteed font would be a big improvement!

Of course we could all pool our money so that Paul Wamelen could quit his day job :-).

Cheers,

Lyman

----- Original Message ----
From: Randall Bart <barticus@att.net>
To: Gamerz Developers <pbmserv-dev@gamerz.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:37:10 PM
Subject: [pbmserv-dev] minimal graphic interface

Currently there's a graphic interface for about 40% of the games on the 
server.  You're doing more, but even at one a week it will take two more 
years.  For some games, the volume is so low that there's no justification 
for spending a dozen or more hours working on it.  OTOH, some games might 
be more popular if they had a GUI.

I would like to propose a half assed solution.  For any game where there 
isn't a tailored GUI, use a generic GUI.  Show the ASCII board (like a show 
command) and give the user a place to enter a move as free 
text.  Integrated with the existing submit/confirm feature of various 
games, it should be a lot better than nothing.

Unfortunately, this will not help Quoridor, a game a like but find 
unplayable with the current interface where N is up on some boards and down 
on others.

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