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Kombination is a Scrabble-like game, written for
KDE 4.
That means that several players try to create words in a turn based game, using
the letters they have and the ones that are already in the board.
Kombination has been written by Albert Astals Cid and Pino Toscano.
Here you can see a screenshot of it (click to enlarge):
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You need, Qt4, kdelibs from KDE4 and libkdegames from KDE4.
For more information about downloading and setting up a KDE4 environment,
take a look at
http://developer.kde.org/build/trunk.html.
Once you have set up the environment, you can proceed dowloading and installing
the libkdegames from trunk/KDE/kdegames, and finally Kombination from
trunk/playground/games/.
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If you have any problem/suggestion about the game please contact the
authors either sending a mail to the people in the AUTHORS file or
seeking for them in #kde-devel at irc.freenode.net
You can also use our general discussion mailing list.
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Here it is a small set of FAQ
about Kombination. If you feel that a question is missing here, feel free to
send it to the authors.
Isn't Scrabble trademarked?
Yes, but rules can not be trademarked, so we are safe.
That sucks, I can not play it as KDE4 is not easily available!
This is not a question :-P
Why don't you implement JDuplicate protocol?
We were told by a good Scrabble expert that Duplicate Scrabble sucks (tm).
Can I implement a GNOME/XFCE/Motif client?
Yes, have a look at the protocol.h file for info on how the server works.
By the way, the protocol WILL PROBABLY change, so don't begin implementing it
now.
Can i help?
Where can I find a server?
You can not, for now you either have to play with yourself or with someone
that gives you his IP/hostname, in the future we may implement a central
server.
I can not play! There's no language to be chosen!
Install some KSpell supported dictionary.
I installed the xxxx dictionary and i still can not choose that language!
Ok, I lied, you also need to have a xxxx.xml that describes the
language. Maybe there is still no XML
for your language so you could try to create one or contact us with the details
and we will create it.
The Scrabble version of my country has different rules other than different
tiles!
We are sorry for that, but for the moment we are developing a Scrabble-like
game with the rules of the original Scrabble. Anyway, you can contct us to see
if the particular rule can be implemented as well.
