Hi<br>Thanks for your valuable input. I have submitted a modified proposal to SoC page. I have also updated the wiki with the changes. <br><br>I also had given a thought to the legal issues and it's because of that only i named the game "Wordsmith". I am hoping that this huge deviation for the original name would be enough.<br>
<br>Thanking you<br>Aditya<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Chris Hager <<a href="mailto:chris@linuxuser.at">chris@linuxuser.at</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Aditya,<br>
<br>
I like the project idea a lot and think that scrabble is a great and<br>
popular game, and a good way to learn, especially with the spectating /<br>
multiplayer mode. Also very interesting that you mentioned the paper for<br>
an fast algorithm -- although that should be fairly easy with a little<br>
dictionary even :)<br>
<br>
I think a focus on mesh network implementation (which is technically<br>
very easy and you'll find a lot of support) would really pay off.<br>
Multiplayer is *the* killer feature with this.<br>
<br>
Maybe I'd split the different parts/ideas of the project in the wiki<br>
page into optional and mandatory.<br>
<br>
I certainly would like to see this project as a proposal at the soc<br>
page. Keep it short and focus on what it will do :) Everyone knows<br>
scrabble, so it will be good to think on specific ideas what features<br>
would aim at olpc's target users (aged 6 - 14).<br>
<br>
It is very important to think about legal and copyright issues. I<br>
remember to read that <a href="http://www.scrabulous.com/" target="_blank">http://www.scrabulous.com/</a> had a really big<br>
success with their scrabble, but were involved in certain legal issues,<br>
"since it very closely resembles Scrabble, exactly copying the board<br>
layout, number of tiles and rules, and having a very similar name."<br>
<br>
So I'd propose, choose a name not anyhow related to scrabble (they think<br>
scrabulous is already too close :/), and different numbers and a<br>
somewhat modified rating system.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
- Chris<br>
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Aditya Vishwakarma wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I am Aditya Vishwakarma, a student of Information technology at NSIT,<br>
> Delhi.<br>
><br>
> I have created a wiki page of my proposal<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith%28scrabble%29" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith(scrabble)</a><br>
</div>> <<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith%28scrabble%29" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith%28scrabble%29</a>> and would love to<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> hear any comments and suggestions on the same.<br>
><br>
> thanking you<br>
> Aditya<br>
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