First of all, thanks a lot for trying it, you are the only who showed
enthusism until now :)

See below for my responses.

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 at 12:02am, Mikolaj Machowski wrote:

> Dnia wtorek, 18 lipca 2006 03:57, Hari Krishna Dara napisa³:
> > I am creating a new card game for Vim7 and wonder if anyone is
> > interested to try it and give me feedback. The game is quite usable at
> > the current state, though there are some pending issues. Here are a
> > couple of snapshots of the game to get you interested:
> >
> > http://haridara.googlepages.com/arimona.html
> > http://haridara.googlepages.com/arimona-middle.html
> >
> > I have only tried the game so far on Windows, and the Unicode symbols
> > that the game requires are found to be in the following fonts (out of
> > those that I have installed):
>
> Works perfectly on Linux with always present families: Nimbus,
> Bitstream/DejaVu.

Thanks, I will note this down.

>
> >   Unlike in solitaire however, you can't move cards back from
> > foundation.
>
> Unpossibility to break stack into parts is feature or bug?
> If feature not in rules would be handy.
>
> (Stack is sequence of eg. 6432 and I want to move only 32 to uncover 4).

It is a feature (restriction), and that is how the game behaved on t68i
phone. As you said, I should mention this in the rules.

>
> >   The game changes the global 'encoding' to "utf-8", as it uses the
> > Unicode symbols to show the card symbols. I don't know the complete
> > impact of this on an existing Vim session,
>
> Possibly disastrous.
> No, Arimona didn't destroy anything - just wrong experiences from the
> past.

In which case, there should probably be an option to use letters instead
of symbols to represent suits, to avoid starting a fresh Vim instance.

>
> Thanks, much fun :)
>
> m.
>
> ps. Any plans for final animation? ;)

I don't know how easy it is going to be, but I would rather spend time
in writing a different game (say solitaire).

-- 
Thanks,
Hari

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