{"id":848,"date":"2016-04-28T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/?p=848"},"modified":"2017-12-07T19:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:51:41","slug":"gcompris-new-chess-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/illust\/gcompris-new-chess-graphics.html","title":{"rendered":"GCompris: New Chess graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my first sponsored post last month <a href=\"http:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/floss\/gcompris-patreon-and-new-logo.html\" title=\"GCompris Patreon post\" target=\"_blank\">on my recently launched Patreon<\/a>, I&#8217;ve decided to update the graphics of the Chess activities.  There are three: End of game, Play against a friend and Play against Tux.<\/p>\n<p>I think those are great to start playing chess, and not only for kids.  I must say that I had a lot of fun playing with these activities while integrating the new graphics. <\/p>\n<p>First, a screenshot of what it looked like before:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-01-before.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-01-before-1024x576.png\" alt=\"gcompris-chess-01-before\" width=\"631\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-01-before-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-01-before-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-01-before.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And now two screenshots with new graphics: the first with the new activity icons, and the second is a fullscreen view of the new chessboard and background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-03-icons.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-03-icons.png\" alt=\"gcompris-chess-03-icons\" width=\"595\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-03-icons.png 850w, https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-03-icons-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-02-after.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-02-after-1024x576.png\" alt=\"gcompris-chess-02-after\" width=\"631\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-02-after-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-02-after-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/gcompris-chess-02-after.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also made some style changes to the overlays while moving the pieces, and to the side text and buttons. <\/p>\n<p>If you were looking for a simple chess game to play alone or with a friend, look for the next release soon, or take a look at the build instructions on the website to test the development version.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun playing chess in Gcompris !<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m about to update another activity before the end of this month, so stay tuned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/animtim\" title=\"GCompris Patreon\" target=\"_blank\">on my patreon page<\/a> for the next news, and don&#8217;t forget to subscribe if you want to support this work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my first sponsored post last month on my recently launched Patreon, I&#8217;ve decided to update the graphics of the Chess activities. There are three: End of game, Play against a friend and Play against Tux. I think those are great to start playing chess, and not only for kids. I must say that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[55,48,56,13],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floss","category-illust","tag-game","tag-gcompris","tag-graphics","tag-kde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheegiet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}