[OLPC-GSoC] GSoC Project : Scrabble

[Aditya Vishwakarma]

Hi,

Thanks for your valuable advice. Particularly age group targetting, mesh
networking and legal advice.
I have therefore named my game wordsmith, and made appropriate changes to
the wiki page.

I have updated the wiki page accordingly and submitted a proposal at GSoC
page.

Waiting for your feedback,
Aditya
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Chris Hager <chris at linuxuser.at> wrote:

> 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>
> > <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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