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ShoesFest, Briefly

July 11, 2008 at 11:15PM
In Vying Games 		By eki
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ShoesFest. Briefly. So, I wrote a little Breakthrough app for Shoes. It's not exactly a port of the Breakthrough UI here on Vying Games, but it's certainly similar. Same pawns, same look for the board. This UI has drag and drop pieces and the bot's pieces slide across the board when they move. It's kind of nice.

You need a very recent Shoes build. So, recent in fact that only the most recent Linux build is reportedly working with my app tonight. Hopefully, whatever the issue is on Windows and Mac OS X will be fixed soon.

The code is over at yonder Github if you want to take a look at it, hack it up, whatever.

I'm pretty sleepy though, so that's all for now. Tomorrow's a big day. I'll probably write up a more detailed ShoesFest article early next week if I have time. Cheers!
Comments

William says,

You should make a library that allows you to make gameboards simultaneously for <canvas> tags and Shoes.

Eric says,

I think it'd always require a bit of porting to make the same game work both in a canvas tag and in Shoes. But, usually games share a significant amount of UI code, so I don't think it'd be too much trouble to support both. It'd take about 5 minutes to modify Breakthrough Shoes code to also play Checkers, for example.

Shoes has the nice advantage of being a very simple GUI toolkit that takes a lot of inspiration from the web. Shoes is a lot cleaner than html/javascript -- the benefit of hindsight and a single designer instead of a committee, I'm sure.

I expect I'll continue to play around with Shoes. (And, I'll have more to say about it later....)


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