$Id: README,v 1.6 2005/01/02 12:10:18 jmtapio Exp $

Ympyris is a falling blocks game (also known as a Tetris clone).

To make your head buzz, Ympyris uses polar coordinate system instead of the
regular grid used by almost all Tetris clones. Also the falling blocks do
not rotate around the well but the well rotates under the blocks.

This is somewhat unpolished software. Please report any problems or just
give feedback. (I would also appreciate help in almost any form.) 

Especially I'm interested on people's opinions on the drawing modes. Are the
solid blocks better than the line+circle blocks and how could either of them 
be improved?

See file COPYING for the license.

Binary distributions of the game for the Windows platform contain parts of
libSDL which is licensed under the Lesser General Public License. Therefore
I promise to provide the source code to the specified software on request
(with only shipping costs) as is required by the (Lesser) General Public
License. But I would like to point out that it is easier to get libSDL from
somewhere in the Internet than it is to ask for it from me.

See http://ympyris.sourceforge.net/ for updates.

This game depends on Pygame, libSDL and Python (>=2.1). The game runs
sluggishly on my Pentium 300MHz and reasonably well on my iBook G3
(400MHz PPC). I expect almost any newer hardware to be sufficient. 3D
acceleration is not required.

Ympyris should run well on most Unices and not-so-well on
Win32-environments. Starting from release 0.9.3 I have tried to create
some work-around-solutions to some *NIX-specific parts of code. Help
would be appreciated on fiddling around the code to make the game more
cross-platform.

The graphics are poor. I would also appreciate if someone more talented than
me could help add some eye candy.

Missing from a 1.0-relase:
    - configuration screen
        - key configuration
	- language selection
	- something else?
    - support for multiple languages
        - Suomi
	- Svenska
	- Deutch
	- Ivrit(?)

 - Juha-Matti Tapio 
   <jmtapio@users.sourceforge.net>
   http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jmtapio/
