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gnome-games package

Nibbles with more than 1 human player causes invincible zombie worms

Bug #140862 reported by Scott Ritchie
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Games
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-games (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-games

Cryptic things happen when you try to play with 2 humans in Nibbles.

If the red player loses all his lives first, then when player 2 dies, a red dot will appear at player 1's spawn point. If another worm then runs over that dot, part of his tail will turn red, as player 1 rises from the grave feeding off the passing worm. Not only is this new zombie worm controllable by player 1, but it also has the power to pass through walls, crash through other worms, and eat the brains of any surviving fruit.

The above was in a game with 2 humans and 3 AIs.

Tags: gutsy
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

thanks for your report.

Changed in gnome-games:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Forwarded upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478661

Changed in gnome-games:
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in gnome-games:
status: Unknown → New
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zoqaeski (zoqaeski) wrote :

Change that to if you’ve got any human players — when one of them runs out of lives, they respawn as the aptly-named “zombie worms” which can eat through walls and other players. Players which have not run out of lives do not possess this capability.

Weird, but an awesome cheat mode (that alas, spoils some of the fun)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

this has been fixed upstream now, thanks for reporting.

Changed in gnome-games:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Changed in gnome-games:
status: New → Invalid
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Changed in gnome-games:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-games - 1:2.23.4-0ubuntu1

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gnome-games (1:2.23.4-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Gnibbles:
    - Improved AI search algorithm. Solves AI problems with level 15
      (lp: #90907)
    - Fix problem where worms crash on the starting square of dead worms
      (lp: #140862)
    Gnometris:
    - code clean up
    - fix compiler warnings
    Sudoku:
    - code clean up

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:42:09 +0200

Changed in gnome-games:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Changed in gnome-games:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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