Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-15 Thread Prabhas Pokharel
even better would be two sets of tiles that can be "superimposed," one for the vowel (or half-letter) part and one for the consonant part. Sorry thought of this too late, I was thinking too much along physical-scrabble lines before. -p On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Shikhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-15 Thread Shikhar
> Scrabble and crossworld puzzles aren't quite the same thing. The deal > with crossword puzzles is that you only need to put in the exact > glyphs that are in the crossword puzzle, whereas scrabble will have to > have every single one. In Nepali, the number of devnagari letters we > use (vowe

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-15 Thread Prabhas Pokharel
First, the script that Hindi is written in is called "Devnagari," and also used by other langauges (including Marathi according to Wikipedia). On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:34:26PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > Howe

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-13 Thread Aditya Vishwakarma
Hi Thanks for all the feedback. I have updated my gsoc application as well as the wiki page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wordsmith(scrabble) Aditya IRC: adityav ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-12 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:34:26PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > However, i am yet to find any implementation of scrabble in Hindi. I think > > Hindi would be a too complicated to implement but would ask some hindi > > professors i know for confirmations. > > Google finds nothing. I lived in

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scrabble implementation in arabic > http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/arabic/ > > other foreign language tilesets > http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/index.html#foreignscrab Just the thing. This list comes down to

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-12 Thread Aditya Vishwakarma
Scrabble implementation in arabic http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/arabic/ other foreign language tilesets http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/index.html#foreignscrab However, i am yet to find any implementation of scrabble in Hindi. I think Hindi would be a too complicated to implement but wou

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am Aditya Vishwakarma. An Information Technology studen

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-11 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am Aditya Vishwakarma. An Information Technology student at NSIT, Delhi. > > I am working on making a Scrabble game as a GSoC project called Wordsmith. > The wiki page is located here - > http://wiki.laptop.