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2004 Jens Schulz &FDLNotice; 28/06/03 1.1.4 KWappen is a colorful high addictive board game. KDE kdegames &kapp; is a board game. The goal is the reduction of the 4 columns in minimal time. The rules of the game are very simple. You can move symbols (stones) on top of a column or rotate columns. The rules are described in the section Shrinking rules. The computer has his own symbol stack in the upper right corner. This computer symbol will be put on the top of a column after your move. The computer selects a column by random. You win, if all columns have only 1 stone or empty. You lose, if one column has 10 or more stones after the column shrink. 1. Select a symbol in one of the columns with the mouse. 2. Select a column for this symbol with the mouse (computer puts it on the column top). 3. The computer adds its own symbol on the top of one column. 4. The computer will shrink the columns (see shrink rules). 1. You can revert one column with the buttons "1", "2", "3", "4" 2. The computer adds its own symbol on the top of one column. 3. The computer will shrink the columns (see shrink rules). You can swap the computer symbol (max. 1x) with the button "Swap computerstone 1x" At the begin of a new move, you change exchange the computer symbol. This is an useful feature in the end game. The yellow arrows shows the next column of the computer symbol. You can revert your own symbol selection with the right mousekey. Ctrl N New game Ctrl H Show Highscore Alt C Clear highscore game Ctrl Q Quit Ctrl A Autoshrink delay Ctrl S Save options Ctrl H Heraldry F1 background 1 F2 background 2 - 2 or more equal stones upon the other will be removed - 4 equal card symbols in a row (e.g. 4 spades) will be removed The computer shrinks the columns multiple, if a shrink has produced a new shrinkable pattern. The computer will normally show the setting of your selected stone and the computer stone. This short display delay can be disabled by the player. You can save some seconds, if you disable this delay. This menu entry saves the autoshrink delay setting. The highscore table has 50 entries. You can display this hall of fame. A menu entry allows the deletion of all entries. My personal highscore is 51 seconds. My friend Sigi has solved a game in 31 seconds. These are the arms of the 16 german countries, called Bundeslaender. The menu entry heraldry shows the names of the 16 Bundeslaender. I'm a citizien of the Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein. This is the northest Bundesland in Germany at the border of Danemark. &kapp; Program copyright 2004 Jens Schulz jschulz-lcs@t-online.de Contributors: Computer Club Elmshorn e.V Linux User Group cce@gmx.de Konqui the KDE Dragon konqui@kde.org Tux the Linux Penguin tux@linux.org Documentation copyright 2004 Jens Schulz jschulz-lcs@t-online.de &underFDL; &underGPL; Homepage of the KWappen project: http://www.lcs-chemie.de. &kwappen; should be found in the kdegames package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project. In order to successfully use &kwappen;, you need KDE 3.2. Screen resolution: min. 1024x768 Tested with SuSE 9.1-Linux Installation via rpm (SuSE 9.1): You can use kpackage or the command line: rpm -Uhv kwappen-1.1.5.suse91.i586.rpm or Installation via tar.gz package: You should install KDevelop 3.0.4 This package installs all KDE3/qt3 development libs and programming tools. SuSE-Linux 9.1 (needs setting of shell variable KDEDIR and QTDIR): % KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 % export KDEDIR % QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 % export QTDIR % gunzip kwappen-1.1.5.tar.gz % tar xvf kwappen-1.1.5.tar % cd kwappen-1.1.5 % ./configure % make % make install Since KApp uses autoconf and automake you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists. KWappen isn't a simple board game. You need some time for the best game tactics. The end game needs rows with 4 card colors (e.g. 4 spades), otherwise you cannot win in a good time. The swap of the computer stone is an important end game feature. It can remove an useless card color. The yellow arrow shows the next column of the computer stone Don't forget, every stone move or rotation increase the number of stones. You must find the right balance of four color row builds and standard symbol deletion. Don't forget, more than 10 stones on a column stops the game. Sometimes a player doesn't want to change a stone constellation. A double click on a symbol on the top of a column avoids constellation changes. &documentation.index;