[Brian Theado] 20Jan2005 - Inspired by the wealth of Tcl/Tk games available at [sdarchive] and elsewhere, I wrote some code that can be used to browse and execute a bunch of applications all bundled together into a single starkit.

I bundled together over 60 games in a just over 2MB starkit that can be downloaded from http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/tkgamepack.kit.  Run the program and see a hierarchical list of Tcl/Tk games.  Click on the game title to launch it.  Click on the game's url to find more information.  Add the title of a game to the command line and that game will be run directly.

[http://tkoutline.sourceforge.net/tkgamepack.png]

'''Implementation details.'''
   * Each game is itself an unmodified starkit.  Each starkit's vfs is extracted into the main directory of the Game pack starkit
   * Each game is launched in its own slave interpreter.
   * Most of the starkits were pulled unmodified from [sdarchive].  I found a couple of dozen more games on the wiki and at [tclapps] that I starkitified and added in.  Some of these needed a "package require Tk" added.
   * I did have to modify one game [dots and boxes] because it was trying to do some things with the console that didn't work in a slave interpreter.
   * The interface for selecting games is an outline from [tkoutline].  The full functionality of tkoutline is also available (see the miscelleneous category) just because it is there.
   * I find the interface to be a bit cluttered, but using an outline was the easiest way for me to get this working (and I am motivated to make use of my own code).
   * Adding new games involves adding new text to the launcher outline (using the full version of tkoutline) and adding a new starkit vfs.