Bug 226174

Summary: Adding back the game "Napoleon's Tomb"
Product: [Applications] kpat Reporter: Paolo Palmieri <palmaway>
Component: generalAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde-games-bugs-null, kundor, walch.martin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Paolo Palmieri 2010-02-10 19:00:01 UTC 
Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

The game "Napoleon's Tomb" was once present in the KDE3 and earlier versions of KPat, but it has now been removed. Any reason for that (lack of developers, copyright?). As showed by the comments on KPat website (http://games.kde.org/game.php?game=kpat), it would be great for many if the game could be added back.
The source of the older version should be a good starting point...

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
No need... ths is a wish report.
Actual Results:  
N/A.

Expected Results:  
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The game is actually quite simple.
Here are the rules:
http://www.lenagames.com/bp_files/rul/napol-tomb.htm
and here's the old game's manual page:
http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/kdegames/kpat/napoleons-tomb.html
Comment 1 Nick Matteo 2010-07-08 07:07:17 UTC 
The comment for revision 773151 ( http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2008-02-17/moreinfo/773151/ ) is "removing calculation and napoleon's tomb - both are too much games of luck with too complex rules"

Who gets to decide that?!  Perhaps it doesn't require too much skill, but often that's exactly what one is looking for in a game.  The rules aren't very complex, as evidenced by my aging mother who is more-or-less afraid of computers, but Napoleon's Tomb is her favorite thing about KDE. (Was, I should say.)

Can it at least be made available for download to add to KPatience (by recompiling if necessary, although a "get how new stuff" for game variants would be slick)?
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2023-02-28 14:31:11 UTC 
2 people voted in 12 years to bring it back, I'm sorry - it's dead