On Saturday 19 July 2008 21:25:55 Nate Ridderman wrote: > Andr�s, > > Go is one of my favorite games, so I'm excited to see that someone has > picked up development again! It requires such balance between > aggressiveness and defense, as well as local play vs spreading out on the > board - I think it's a great game for kids to learn. I look forward to > trying out a new version, and I agree that collaboration is an important > problem to tackle soon. Adding GnuGo (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/) > support would be a great addition too. It would be nice to support GnuGo > and collaboration over the same networking framework, but I don't know > enough about the > collaboration framework and Bitfrost to know if this is a possibility. > GnuGo generally runs as it's own process and communicates over GTP ( > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo_19.html#SEC196). > > It seems there's a lack of documentation for people like yourself who want > to pick up development on an existing activity. Most people who want shell > access to dev.laptop.org also want to host a new activity. I wasn't able to > find anything on the wiki about requesting shell access. Maybe putting a > blurb on the wiki about who to contact would be helpful. > > Nate
Dear Nate, Thanks for your interest! I also like Go a lot, even though I'm very bad at it! :P. I also think it's a great game for kids, most strong go players start very young, and a lot turn pro before age 15. GnuGo integration is certainly the way to go (no pun intended XD), maybe we can use a local gnugo instance speaking GTP with the Activity, for what I see, it shouldn't be too hard. The standard API for sharing (Telepathy tubes) can be used by the "host" to tell the other player what's going on. I'm just thinking out loud here, as I yet have to delve into the sharing API. Maybe one of the experts here can give us some pointers :). -- -Andrés
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