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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:are you kidding me by winphreak · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a plugin, not a core component.

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  2. New feature? by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

    I'm not sure it has moved forward in years.

    I'm waiting for kopete on Windows.

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    1. 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.