Hearts for GNOME project announcement

Posted by Sander_Marechal on May 2, 2006 4:23 PM EDT
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Hearts for GNOME is an implementation of the classic card game for the GNOME desktop, featuring configurable rulesets and editable computer opponents to satisfy widely diverging playing styles.

[The Editor-in-Chief of Lxer apologizes for the delay in this announcement. I had promised it would run much earlier than this. - dcparris]

Lone Wolves is happy to announce the creation of the Hearts for GNOME project.



Hearts for GNOME is an implementation of the classic card game for the GNOME desktop, featuring configurable rulesets and editable computer opponents to satisfy widely diverging playing styles. Hearts is Free Software, released under the GNU General Public License and should be able to run on any computer that can run the GNOME desktop.



Features:

  • Various rulesets with configurable options
  • Multiple computer opponents with differing styles of play
  • Drag & drop adding of new opponents
  • Easy creation and modification of opponents through the Lua scripting language


Requirements:

  • GNOME 2
  • libglade 2
  • lua 5.0


Currently there is no official release, but the code in the Subversion repository should compile and run, giving you a good impression of the game so far.



Links:

http://www.gnome-hearts.org - project website
http://svn.jejik.com - Subversion repository
http://www.jejik.com/files/hearts/hearts.snapshot.tar.gz - nightly snapshot of the Hearts trunk.



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Sander Marechal

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