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Games Come to Pidgin

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the c-is-dead-long-live-c dept.

Tovok7 writes "Free software instant messengers have long been lacking the support to play games with your friends. The waiting is finally over, because today Pidgin Games was released. It comes as plugins for the popular Instant Messenger Pidgin and is running under Linux and Windows. The special thing about Pidgin Games is that it is written in the new programming language Vala which has a C# like syntax, but compiles to pure C."

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  1. Re:New feature? by squisher · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought they just spent all their time removing features for new releases these days.

    I don't understand how years and years back, Gaim had rudimentary support for voice and video (the most requested feature) and tons of other features. In the past 3-4 years of development, voice and video was never finished and is no longer an option to even compile in I do believe. AFAIK they just didn't have the manpower to improve upon the rudimentary audio and video support. Pidgin's goal has always been to work on many IM networks, and if you had followed at all what goes on on the mailing list, then you would know that they are not against integrating audio and video support at all, they only want the code to be of good quality. So all they need is for some people to step up to the task :-).
  2. Re:are you kidding me by Missing_dc · · Score: 4, Funny

    Implementing a jingle is easy, just play it over and over until it is stuck in the subjects' heads.

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    How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
  3. Re:New feature? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And instead of new features, I keep seeing more and more features removed to streamline the app.

    Its the recession, we all gotta cut back a bit.