On Aug 11, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Rodney Somerstein wrote:
But, short of that, does anyone have any other suggestions?
I had thought of creating something like this as well in the past,
and had come to the conclusion that if I were doing it, I wouldn't
try to implement the rules. Instead, I'd simply focus on implementing
correct card behavior. So the game would understand a deck of cards,
a face-down card, a face-up card, and a card that is visible to only
a subset of players, with the ability to move each of these around on
a virtual table.
So for example, if you and I are playing blackjack and I am dealing,
I grab the deck and deal out a face up card on your side of the
table, a face down card on my side, a face up card on your side, and
a face up card on my side. I then "look" at my face down card. You
can see that I am looking, but not what I see.
Etc., etc.
The only thing preventing me from dealing both my cards face up is
that we both know how blackjack works. It doesn't need to be codified.
The end result is a virtual card table that can be used to play
almost any card game imaginable, without any further configuration.
We just need to agree to the rules.
I hadn't thought of stopping at cards -- implementing chess pieces
would be easier than playing cards, since they have a single
visibility state for all players. Want to play four-handed chess?
Chess on a 36x36 board with fifty pieces each? No problem, no
definition required.
Rev would be very well suited to this, by the way.
regards,
Geoff
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