There was a game where you had to fight with a group of persons, sitting in
trees. It was possible to change the names of the actors. I saw
HighSchoolChildren giving the bad guys the names of their teachers and then
having fun: dumping them in swamps an so on... 

So why not ask for a procedure where you can Read-In a picture of your
favorite enemie and then past that on the poor guy in your game. (Would be
more fun to read in also the image of the player
himself and then changing the roles after a first run: a dancing enemie when
you hang yourself...)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hinsley [mailto:jhinsley at telinco.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 12:25 PM
To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Who shall we hang?


One of my favourite Java applets is the Hangman game by Patrick Chan,
Herb Jellinek
and Chris Bucchere
(it's somewhere on the Sun Java site as one of a number of applets
listed as "other"). Or a Google search might find it.

I'd like to try and write it as a game (rather than a squeaklet) in
Squeak. 

I can make a start with the images supplied with the applet, but at some
point it'd be nice if the image of Duke (the Java mascot) was replaced
by something more appropriate to Squeak. I thought of using Bill Gates
(easy to draw, prototype readily available in X Bill, etc) but then,
wouldn't everyone want to spell the words wrong just for the pleasure of
seeing him hang? (And then, I shouldn't be Operating Systemist about
this.) 

Has anyone any ideas? (No suggestions of people in the Smalltalk/Squeak
community, please!) Or maybe there is an image of the Squeak mouse with
legs somewhere? 

Cheers

John
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