[Design]: Lintohl

["chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com>]

Hi all,

Would anyone be willing to take a look at the current requirements and specs
for Lintohl, (a Tetris-like game using gwindows) and give some feedback?  It
might not sound complex enough to require a formalisation of requirements,
specs, design (and so on) but the project is as much about putting the
theory from this years Software Design course into practise as it is about
learning a little about game development or improving my Ada skills
(besides, if somethings worth doing, it's worth doing right).

My concern is that there's too much detail or information in the
requirements, and that some of it would go better in the specification.
Usually I'd write a lengthy requirements document and then set about the
design before implementing, but the goals are different this time; I want to
mature my development skills and learn new ways of doing things.

The documentation is also important since it will be included with the
source of Lintohl, to encounrage ppl to include their designs with their
code.  One of the reasons I won't modify or sometimes even look at others
code is that although the design is in the code, you've got to look at what
it all does before you can make any modifications (to take into account the
effects a change may affect).  Knowing both what the codes supposed to do,
and what it actually does is also benefitial as any differences between the
intention and implementation can be indentified quickier and easier.


The document can be found here:

http://willowplan.tripod.com/lintohlreqs.swx
http://willowplan.tripod.com/lintohlreqs.doc

One is OpenOffice format (might work with StarOffice but haven't tried it),
and the other is Word 97/2000 format.  Both should be 100% free of macros of
any sort, but if you do find any macro viruses should you scan them let me
know.


Regards,
Chris