Croquet & Alphaworld (getting OT)
Alan Kay
Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Thu Nov 7 14:50:46 UTC 2002
Thanks Jason --
Most of the credit goes to Dave Smith, Dave Reed, and Andreas Raab. I
have been very happy to have been association with this project.
Cheers,
Alan
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At 9:43 AM -0500 11/7/02, Jason Dufair wrote:
>It is somewhat serendipitous to me that the project is called
>Croquet. I'm part of a team at Purdue University that is (and has
>been for 5 years) developing all of Purdue's student systems in
>Smalltalk (VisualWorks). We work in a nice little converted
>fraternity building just outside the western edge of campus in a
>fairly wooded area. Someone brought in a croquet set this summer and
>we started playing over lunch breaks. We've all become completely
>addicted to the game. We've even played in the rain for fear we
>wouldn't get our croquet fix that day. It's a surprisingly
>strategic game and full of twists of fate. I've even gone and
>purchased a second croquet set for the team since we wore the first
>one out. I also developed a small play order randomizer for the
>Palm (in Pocket Smalltalk, of course).
>
>As far as rule 2 goes, it is not only acceptable to "roquet" someone
>by putting your foot on your own ball while sending another player's
>ball, it's actually fairly common. It is indeed found as an
>acceptable move in the official croquet rules
>(http://www.croquetworld.com/).
>
>Alas, now that the weather is turning quite cold here in Indiana, we
>may have played our last croquet game of the season (though tomorrow
>may prove me wrong). We'll probably do one honorary game of
>"snowquet". We've begun to move on to a lan party of Neverwinter
>Nights to occupy our lunches now.
>
>I am very excited about Croquet, the project. I've seen various 3D
>interfaces here and there and have been "ho-hum" about them. But to
>have one developed by Squeakers and especially the esteemed Alan
>Kay, I'm anxious to find more than the 15 minutes I've had so far to
>play with it. So far, so fun. Good luck, Croquetters!
>
>Cees de Groot wrote:
>
>>Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> said:
>>
>>>The documentation says quite clearly not to hit OK, but to hit cancel.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>Talking about documentation, via-via I got the following feedback on the
>>graphics:
>>
>>"you must know that the lady in the croquet picture is
>>violating at least two rules that I was taught when I was a lad - (1) not to
>>raise the mallet above waist level (you were meant to swing it between your
>>legs, and that would make high swings impossible without some personal
>>damage(!)) and (2) not to put your foot on your ball when you were sending
>>your opponent off - nice picture though."
>>
>>Nothing important, but it's the only bit of feedback I can give as long as I
>>haven't downloaded the 90Megs ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>
>--
>Jason Dufair - jase at dufair.org
>http://www.dufair.org/
>"My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people:
>those who do the work and those who take the credit.
>He told me to try to be in the first group;
>there was much less competition."
>-- Indira Gandhi
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