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Small steps

Programming isn’t visual at all most of the time. It needed some time and nerves, but the poker game is making progress:

Basically it’s functional right now: One can create and leave tables (well, kind of) and the poker game progresses automatically when bets are done (or if players fold). Β The UI is primitive but functional enough to test the game. There are lots of bugs right now to fix, but it’s starting to be fun. I can’t await to make a graphical frontend… (it’s the least amount of work …. well except for animations, but that also shouldn’t be too tough). As soon as it’s in a playable stable state with most functionality covered, it’ll go over into the beta. Or at least I am hoping so.

Btw.: In the first implementation, poker is going to be beta state; that means that it’ll also hit the productive worlds in a not yet finished state: It won’t use your money for the game and the games won’t be persistent (if the chat server restarts for some reason, the poker game state is not restored). This phase will be used to test if the game works in a large environment with lots of players and also to dent out possible errors (it’s nearly guaranteed that there’ll be rule bugs in the game) that shouldn’t affect players too badly. When we consider it stable enough, we’ll add persistence, so game states can be recovered and are permanent. Once that works, we’ll use your character’s money to play (so yes, if you’re good at poker, you might be able to gain a fortune at low levels… however, there’ll be a fee for playing, so this’ll be another money sink for the game).

10 Comments

  1. aliebaba
    aliebaba February 3, 2011

    yeah, yeah,yeahhhhhhh
    poooooooooooooooooooooooooooker :D:D:D

    wel done πŸ˜€

  2. vitamin2002
    vitamin2002 February 3, 2011

    anybody can explain me , how we can play poker ? πŸ˜€ in real life , for now , i dont play poker πŸ™ probably we will need learning …
    nice work zet πŸ™‚
    hope you do something about town treasury money ! as my town town treasury money going for 1,000,000 $ !!! any idea for use this money in next updata or … ?

  3. classius
    classius February 3, 2011

    Is poker coming with the next update or is it coming as soon as it’s ready?

  4. Joaquin Villalobos
    Joaquin Villalobos February 4, 2011

    I fully understand that the poker interface shown above is not final, but you should seriously think about adding a “Call” button ^^

    will there be any table limits to prevent massive money transfers ?

    looking forward to fleecing by buddies …

  5. JoxerTM
    JoxerTM February 4, 2011

    we’ll only play for the cash? but zet… I already have a pile of cash… Can we please strip someone’s BuffaloBill pants too? And keep them of course. :evil grin:

  6. Jadefux
    Jadefux February 4, 2011

    tztztz poker…oh my god…i can’t believe it. you develop new things and don’t eliminate the mistakes of the duelsystem! shame on you!

  7. Sanidh
    Sanidh February 4, 2011

    Take your time buddy πŸ˜€ .. Hope it comes out in the next update

  8. daybb
    daybb February 4, 2011

    i agree jadefux. duel sistem is not funny after belts and pants coming. resistance duel is awful

  9. classius
    classius February 4, 2011

    Poker’s up on beta.

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