GNOME Mines

GNOME Mines (formerly known as Gnomine) is minesweeper clone for GNOME is licensed under the GPL as part of GNOME Games.[3] The game was written in C by Pista and subsequently ported to Vala. It was later improved by face artwork made by tigert. The faces are written in SVG and they are used to demonstrate the state of the game.

GNOME Mines
GNOME Mines 3.12
Developer(s)The GNOME Project
Stable release3.36.4[1] (8 July 2020 (2020-07-08)) [±]
Preview release3.37.3[2] (7 July 2020 (2020-07-07)) [±]
Written inVala
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Apps/Mines

Gameplay

The game's premise is that the player has to locate mines floating in an ocean.

GNOME Mines can provide hints, but doing so adds 10 seconds to the time per hint. Using hints to solve a beginner level puzzle will often take three minutes or longer. The algorithm behind the hint function gets the layout of all of the squares and if they aren't empty it performs the move that is the most revealing.

gollark: I know, right?
gollark: The obvious approach would just be to make a backup of the database each round and operate on that.
gollark: And DELETEs and INSERTs.
gollark: It isn't. But I actually forgot about that and assumed you just wanted to stop UPDATEs.
gollark: I think the SQLite3 Python API has a thing for this.

References
  1. Kitouni, Abderrahim (8 July 2020). "GNOME 3.36.4 Released". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  2. Catanzaro, Michael (7 July 2020). "GNOME 3.37.3 released". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  3. GNOME Games page at wiki.gnome.org
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