Re: [pbmserv-dev] Soccolot observation

[Douglas Zander <dzander@solaria.sol.net>]

I wrote Soccolot exactly like the author's original rules.   While
play-testing it we had determined that several things could be added:
1) allow the player with the ball to dribble the ball around his body 
without having to move.

2) allow the kicker to kick the ball sideways or at other diagonals.

Unfortunately, two things happened: 1) the author was/is very busy and
it was hard to get constant communication going with him; to the best 
of my knowledge he never actually tested his game on my test-server.
2) the September 11th attacks left me feeling depressed.

Therefore: since Sept. 11th I haven't done any new programming of a
significant amount (just little bits here and there) and I am still in
a funk, so I decided to just send Soccolot (and Tumble) to Richard as
they were; (Tumble was completed and) Soccolot could use improvements but
the author is too busy to approve anything new and I just don't feel
like doing anything more with the program.  I probably wont be getting
anything new out before the end of the year and next year I was planning
on doing other projects (not games for this server); so this may be the
last program you see from me for a while. 

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 Douglas Zander            | 
 dzander@solaria.sol.net   | 
 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA |