Re: Croquet & Alphaworld (getting OT)

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx
> 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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