Another name for GSimon
The new (temp) name of GSimon is Genius. I’m still checking for legal issues related to this name, but I think is a good name for a Simon clone.
Also, I left the direct drawing on Cairo to use librsvg (which can bring up different themes for the game). I’m not a good artist, so what you think about the default theme?
Comments are very welcome. I need an icon for Genius too.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 am
You can render SVGs using Cairo too…
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:53 am
There’s already a very nice tool which is called genius:
http://www.jirka.org/genius.html
and it actually has a gnome frontend called gnome-genius.
I think you should find a different name…
Itai.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 am
That looks very sharp.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 am
There is a gnome application (math calculator) known as Genius. Don’t know whether that is important to you or not. An alternate suggestion would be to make a play on the “Simon” name your application Sarah,Samantha,Roger,Nimos,…
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:39 am
The current “Genius” application can be found at http://www.jirka.org/genius.html
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 am
Looking good!
Is it playable? if so is there a download link? i wouldn’t mind killing an hour or two
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 am
Rocks! Source code please!!!!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
Hey man! I’m dying to take a peek at the code!
When can we have a look?
Cheers,
Og
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:19 am
That looks 1000% better.
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:19 am
Hi! Did you know that there is a package in Debian/Ubuntu called ‘genius’, a cool console calculator package, and a GTK version called ‘gnome-genius.’ Just thought you might want to know before changing the name. Having the same name won’t stop you from getting packaged: Epiphany appears as ‘epiphany-browser’ due to a conflict with a game; and Git is also conflicting, listed as ‘cogito.’ It would be easier if it wasn’t conflicting though!
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:03 am
1000% pah, dude its more like 1000000%
well done its looking wicked bruno!
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:15 am
Calling it genius might cause some confusion with the mathematics tool (Which, admittedly, doesn’t apper to have seen active development for a few months, but still)….
http://www.jirka.org/genius.html
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 am
There already is a GNOME project called genius: http://download.gnome.org/sources/genius
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:59 am
I think Genius is already taken by George Lebl’s calculator (http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/genius/trunk/).
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:31 am
Can this be our new logo?
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:40 am
amazing!
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:03 am
>>Can this be our new logo?
Shame it didn’t drop in time for April Fools
Looks wonderful!
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 am
It’s awesome.
Very cute “default theme”!!!
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
WOW! That looks amazing!
Is the svg open source? I would sure like to learn how to make such a figure
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
This looks great, except for one detail: why did you put the GNOME foot logo in the center ? I’ve got nothing against the GNOME logo, but this is Genius, not GNOME.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
“I’m not a good artist” - That makes me feel sad
Looking awesome
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
good work in the last seven years, bruno! you may want to check out your code from svn: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/genius/
(just kidding - yes, you may want to change the name again…)
andré
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 am
Thanks for the positive comments about my artistic endowment…
Definitely we need a new name. Suggestions?
Also, I need open sounds to use on that:
From wikipedia:
“Simon’s tones, on the other hand, were designed to always be harmonic, no matter what order they were played in, and consisted of:
* A (red, upper right);
* A (green, upper left, an octave higher than the upper right);
* D (blue, lower right, a perfect fourth higher than the upper right);
* G (yellow, lower left, a perfect fourth higher than the lower right).”
@Andrea: How can I render SVG’s using just and only Cairo?
@Colin, Etrunko, Og, Louise: No source code yet… I’m rewriting the code I’ve not finished. I’ll attach the SVG here.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
@Cimi, you can’t render SVGs using Cairo. You can using libsvg (also developed by Carl Worth), but that’s ancient and unmaintained.
Cairo has a SVG backend, so you can rendering things *to* SVGs if you’d like. But that’s not what Bruno wants to do.
Besides, you can use librsvg to draw SVGs using Cairo’s drawing primitives.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Why don’t you call it “Bruno” ? It would be a tribute to both the original name and to you, the author of the port.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
This looks really great!
How soon can you join the GNOME Art Team?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Looks great! xD
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Some suggestions for a name:
Memtone
Memon (Memory and Button)
Peter (as in repeater)
Peat or Pete (as in repeat)
Dover (as in do over)
Doogan (as in do again)
Bruno
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm
That theme looks really great
April 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I agree with Julien Olivier: Bruno!
The SVG looks great!
As for an icon, I’d dropp the “Genious” corner and the foot in the middle and just scale it down.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
shiny!
surely the icon for this would be much the same as the game itself? (A circle divided into four coloured parts).
as for naming I’d be terribly literal and explanatory and suggest “Music Memory” or something but a better name may yet present itself.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Bruno, in 2004 I wrote a clone of the Simon game () and called it ‘Garfunkel’, but I never told anyone. Please, feel free to use that name if you like it.
Ciao, Christian Sasso
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
> @Colin, Etrunko, Og, Louise: No source code yet… I’m rewriting the code I’ve not finished. I’ll attach the SVG here.
There is no link when I hover the mouse over the text…
Or does attach mean something else, when dealing with blogs?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Where I live, the game was called Fabuloso Fred. How about calling it “Fabuloso”?
April 5th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
@christian sasso
Thanks, Chirstian!!! I think “Garfunkel” is the best name!!!
April 8th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
“Garfunkel” is so freaking awesome a name! Way to go!