[OLPC-GSoC] GSoC Project : Scrabble

[Chris Hager]

Hi Aditya,

I like the project idea a lot and think that scrabble is a great and 
popular game, and a good way to learn, especially with the spectating / 
multiplayer mode. Also very interesting that you mentioned the paper for 
an fast algorithm -- although that should be fairly easy with a little 
dictionary even :)

I think a focus on mesh network implementation (which is technically 
very easy and you'll find a lot of support) would really pay off. 
Multiplayer is *the* killer feature with this.

Maybe I'd split the different parts/ideas of the project in the wiki 
page into optional and mandatory.

I certainly would like to see this project as a proposal at the soc 
page. Keep it short and focus on what it will do :) Everyone knows 
scrabble, so it will be good to think on specific ideas what features 
would aim at olpc's target users (aged 6 - 14).

It is very important to think about legal and copyright issues. I 
remember to read that http://www.scrabulous.com/ had a really big 
success with their scrabble, but were involved in certain legal issues, 
"since it very closely resembles Scrabble, exactly copying the board 
layout, number of tiles and rules, and having a very similar name."

So I'd propose, choose a name not anyhow related to scrabble (they think 
scrabulous is already too close :/), and different numbers and a 
somewhat modified rating system.

Best,
- Chris



Aditya Vishwakarma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am Aditya Vishwakarma, a student of Information technology at NSIT, 
> Delhi.
>
> I have created a wiki page of my proposal 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith(scrabble) 
> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith%28scrabble%29> and would love to 
> hear any comments and suggestions on the same.
>
> thanking you
> Aditya
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