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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. Wasted Effort by phantomcircuit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where is the Audio and Video?!

  2. Re:are you kidding me by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And meanwhile, Custom Emoticons support is still stalled :(

  3. Re:are you kidding me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Thank God. I'm thinking of writing a plugin that disables emoticons completely. I'll name it something like vulcanIM. For emoticons... are not logical.

  4. Re:The real news is Vala by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What about the C++ interface to GTK+?