World: r3wp

well.. maybe 80 years ;)

the only hard thing about creating the multiplayer version of mahjong 
is the infernal scoring :(  So many differetn variations

leave it to the players to do the scoring

yes but then you need to decide on the hands allowed as well depending 
on teh variation played

eg. classical Chinese vs Hong Kong vs Taiwanese vs American

Personally i like the classical Chinese hands with a few of the 1920's 
American hands like knitting/double knitting thrown in :)

interesting..never know about American?

I also found it a  bit tough to separate a few tiles, cause the contrast 
is a bit too low.

hmm.. i used a standard tileset format so ill post a link to compatible 
tilesets.. brb

http://www.lelldorin.de/beos/

has alternative bright tilesets

would it be hard to make a button which basically does ?:


write/binary %tileset.png  read/binary  http://www.lelldorin.de/beos/whatevertiles.png

with watevertiles.png   pointing to other tiles (one tileset per 
button)

other mahjong have this and its actually quite cool.

if i can get them to load - im getting 404 errors here

at persent id reccommend lledorin tileset 1 for brightness and clarity

i just found some nice Kyodai Mahjong tilesets - ill write an import 
for them as well

Any plans for an OpenGL version with perspective 3D tiles?

when R3 is released and someone writes the OpenGl plugin :P

but ive got a MMORPG to do in openGL before that :)

just waiting on async ports in R3

then the server will be ready

There are 2 OpenGL implementations for REBOL already. One by Cyphre, 
that require REBOL/Command (I think), and mine requiring GLServer 
(compiled C program, only for OS X so far).

winXP here :)

and i could use the sdk i have here but then its no use to users

i need the GL to be accessible from v standard view

and ideally it needs to work in linux, windows and osx

Mahjong also has Italian rules afaik, it was imported, I don't know 
when or by whom, in central Italy. It is also played in Japan and 
I had a Japanese computer game of Mahjong that it's defined unplayable 
by Chinese people I know.

About the tileset: on Linux I had problems with the capitalised filename 
as %TileSet.png differs from %tileset.png

re the tileset name - thanks for mentioning that - i thought i'd 
caught them all - obviously not :)

I really hate that linux allows case.

RebTower (Old School MTG based card game) almost complete - just 
finishing deck art and AI for computer player.  http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower-wip.jpg

Very nice James!

The AI isi proving to be a pain :)  I keep thinking - "What would 
i do next" .. takes ages :(

Yeah, it looks nice!

Do you produce all the graphics yourself?

all except the backdrop which is Alan Wheat's

ideally ill dust off terragen and make my own backdrops when i get 
a little more time

Especially the small drawings with number on top is great. How do 
you produce them?

used draw with a white on silver shadow

I mean the drawings, the blue 'energy', forest and brown cave.

verdana font - which i may have to change for OSX/Linux compatibility

ahh - forest and cave are from stock photos and the blue is a geometric 
effect

well geometric + photoshop :)

oki

Do you have a prefered place to look for stock photos?

free + stock + photos on google :)  Or i dig thru the 40+ gig i have 
here :)

Yes, looking nice and polished.

ICarii: have you tried the new terragen version ?

using 0.9 here - not sure what latest is (probably 2.0 lol)

RebTower Demo available at: http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower-demo.zip
   - non demo version should hopefully be out in a couple of days 
once I get the artwork finalised and the AI beaten into shape.  Current 
demo plays computer vs computer in simulation mode.