Gewels

Gewels is Gnome clone of Jewels. If you are not familiar with Jewels, just try it, you will understand soon.

Installation

        ./correct-configure.sh
        make
        su
        make install

correct-configure.sh will just call autogen but it will set correct paths to your gnome. BTW, Honbun needs some gnome 2 libraries to build and run.

Special features:

Gewels allows two players to play simultaneously. It introduces special multiplayer deadmatch mode, in which whenever the difference of removed jewels between the players is bigger than 15, player with lower count of jewels is penalized. Computer can play against uman, so you can try deadmatch even if you are alone.

200 Contest is special mode in which you must gain as many points as possible until you remove 200 jewels.

Score

Score is not equal to number of removed jewels. Let's look at 2 examples:
If you remove something like this:
| |
| x |
| x |
|xxx |

you recieve 600 points, because there are 3 jewels in horizontal direction and 3 jewels in diagonal direction.

The situation:
| x |
| x |
| o |
| |
|x x |
|o |
|x o |

goes to:
| |
|xxx |
|ox |
|xoo |

and xs are removed--600 points. Then
| |
|ooo |

os are removed--300 points. But because they are 2nd removed jewels after jewels fell, points are multiplied by 2. If third jewels were removed, the points would be multiplied by 4...

About Gewels

I was impressed by Gnome and I wanted to learn GTK and Gnome. I decided to learn glade too, so I used it to design user interface. I wrote the game in November 2000. I beleive it is almost complete, but if you have any suggestions, send me an e-mail.
My e-mail address is: pblahos at users.sourceforge.net

I would like to know your oppinion about artifical inteligence (when computer plays). It could be improved, but I think it is better idea to remove it. What do you think about it?