Re: [Rails-users] 1853

[Oliver H. <oli...@ok...>]

Brett,

thanks for your comprehensive explanations. Sounds interesting, I think 
I will give it a try. Must see, how much time this takes. And I am not 
really into programming.

 From my perspective it would be nice to have the stock market 
implemented first, as this would really help to speed up face-to-face 
games. But I would expect quite a lot of extra rules and changes in 1953 
as the concept of narrow gauge is unique.

Cheers,
Oliver


Am 16.02.2011 22:19, schrieb brett lentz:
> Oliver -
>
> At a high level, there is interest in adding all 18xx games to Rails.
> However, in the more near term, we have not yet had much discussion
> about 1853. What the next supported game is going to be is currently
> an open question.
>
> I'll provide a bit more detail on the process for adding a new game.
> This should help with understanding what it takes to add a new game.
>
> We rely very heavily on the time and interest of volunteers. So, as
> you can imagine, the choice of which games to implement next depends a
> lot on someone stepping up to do the work. We're always looking for
> more people who are interested in helping improve Rails in both big
> and small ways.
>
> Adding a new game can be broken up into a few pieces, some of which
> don't require much programming experience.
>
> 1. Create Game-specific XML files. The map, tileset, and other XML
> files define what components make up the game and what special or
> optional rules are available. These are created mostly by hand, and
> only require some familiarity with markup languages, but don't
> particularly require programming experience.
>
> 2. Create any new Tile graphics. This isn't always required. We have a
> pretty good library of tile graphics already created, but occasionally
> a game will add some new tiles that we don't have. This requires the
> use of Marco Rocci's Tile Designer and a few post-processing steps,
> but no real programming experience is needed.
>
> 3. Identify rules differences and specialty rules that aren't yet
> implemented. Here's where the bulk of the programming work begins. If
> the game uses rules that are from games that we have already
> implemented, the programming effort is usually pretty minimal (e.g.
> 18Kaas is 1830 on a different map. Adding support for it only required
> the game XML and little else). Depending on the size of this work,
> adding support for 1853 may be trivial, or it might be several hours
> of work, which is likely to be spread over several weeks or months
> depending on how much time someone has available to dedicate to the
> effort.
>
> 4. Integration with other features.  Now that we have support for
> route calculation and other features, there may be additional work
> required to support those features within the new game.
>
>
> ---Brett.