Contents -------- 1. Introduction 2. Download 3. Mailinglists 4. Roadmap 5. Designer 6. Legal issues 1. Introduction --------------- Atlantik is a KDE client for playing Monopoly-like games on the monopd network. Purpose of the Atlantic board game is to acquire land in major cities in North America and Europe while being a transatlantic traveller. One of the game modes plays like the popular real estate board game based on Atlantic City street names. Atlantik was previously known as KMonop and might still be referred to as such in some documentation. 2. Download ----------- Atlantik can be downloaded from http://unixcode.org/atlantik/ and monopd can be downloaded from http://unixcode.org/monopd/ However, the latest versions of both projects are found in CVS. Atlantik is located in the CVS repository of the KDE project in the module kdegames. See http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html for instructions how to download KDE modules from CVS. Atlantik is included in the kdegames package since the KDE 3.1 release. For more information on monopd CVS see the monopd pages on http://sourceforge.net/projects/monopd/ Both monopd and Atlantik are in heavy development and it is important to match versions when connecting to a game server. One can choose a suitable server through the Monopigator interface. 3. Mailinglists --------------= There are mailinglists available for discussion of Atlantik development. The atlantik-devel list is for general discussion and development of the codebase, the atlantik-cvs list has all the CVS commits in it and the atlantik-artists list is for the development of GFX/SFX for Atlantik. See http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/atlantik-devel See http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/atlantik-cvs and http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/atlantik-artists on information on subscribing, posting and list archives. There is a seperate mailinglist for monopd related discussion: To subscribe, send e-mail to: monopd-devel-subscribe@lists.capsi.com To post, send e-mail to: monopd-devel@lists.capsi.com 4. Roadmap ---------- The TODO file gives a nice approximation of desired functionality and priorities. It can be used as roadmap or checklist. 5. Designer ----------- Atlantik Designer is a game board designer that will create game config files for monopd. You can find it in KDE CVS, module kdeaddons. 6. Legal issues --------------- Many people have expressed their concerns about possible copyrights, trademarks and patents applicable to MonopolyŽ and the possible implications for Atlantik (and monopd) development and distribution. I believe that Atlantik and monopd are completely clear of violating any copyrights, trademarks or patents and that there are no legal issues that might affect development or distibution of either application. For more information, please read http://unixcode.org/atlantik/legal.html