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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 56510@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56510: Make some games obsolete (or just remove them from the menu)
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:15:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jzn0zb0.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnmumyX5=K9PU+FHtyLDc_jn6a3Nqqq=rgJ9WEq0jO6MQ@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:06:36 -0500")

[திங்கள் ஜூலை 11, 2022] Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Some of the games in Emacs look a bit dated.  I put it to you that they
> are not excellent promotion for Emacs, and that we are better served by
> having fewer but better games.

[ What exactly do you mean by "better games"?  Do you mean to say that
  they should look visually interesting?  ]

> I suggest that we either remove some of them from the "Tools -> Games"
> menu, or obsolete them outright.  Here are the ones that I don't think
> pass the bar:
>
>  - 5x5.el
>  - blackbox.el
>  - gomoku.el
>  - pong.el
>  - solitaire.el

I never properly checked out 5x5 but it looks like really interesting.
I never understood blackbox however.

Gomoku and solitaire are both standard puzzle games.  I was very pleased
to know that my childhood pastime was included in Emacs, I suggest we
don't obsolete them.  (Solitaire in particular is a very rewarding
game.)

Pong is unfortunately too choppy for me to play it.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-12  3:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-12  3:06 bug#56510: Make some games obsolete (or just remove them from the menu) Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12  3:45 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2022-07-12  8:27 ` Phil Sainty
2022-07-12  9:54   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 13:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 13:29     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-07-12 15:13     ` Drew Adams
2022-07-12 15:56       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 16:23         ` Drew Adams
2022-07-13  3:18           ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-13 16:47             ` Drew Adams
2022-07-13 22:58             ` Jean Louis
2022-07-15  3:34               ` Richard Stallman
2022-07-12 13:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-07-12 14:04   ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 14:23     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 14:36       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 14:38       ` Stefan Kangas
2022-07-12 13:26 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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