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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