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Re: Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

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Is this open source? I kinda want to try training a Blackjack AI, and the clean minimal design for here could help if I try giving the game state to the AI as an image. Also it would be fun to play with data of everyone's games if you're collecting them.

> clean minimal design

The design is so minimal I thought it wasn't loading correctly for me.

Re: Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

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post #7

Very nice. Any plans on open-sourcing this? I'm a newbie at blackjack and have been wanting to build a similarly minimalistic version adding a "strategy feedback" mode to help me memorize basic strategies.

I've got a simple blackjack program[1] in bash that I occasionally play; it's ugly code, but it's pretty straightforward. More directly, I wrote (perl) a blackjack tester[2] to quiz myself, as well as a simple output of basic strategy[3]. I haven't touched these in half a decade, but seem to work fine! 1: https://github.com/Amorymeltzer/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/bla... 2: https://github.com/Amorymeltzer/sandbox/blob/m…

  perl basic_strategy.pl | column -t

Re: Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

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post #8

Is this open source? I kinda want to try training a Blackjack AI, and the clean minimal design for here could help if I try giving the game state to the AI as an image. Also it would be fun to play with data of everyone's games if you're collecting them.

If your AI is any good it will refuse to play because it’s realized the house always wins.

I spent a few hours watching card counting videos on YouTube to see if there was anything to it - didn’t matter who it was, they spent the entire time belly-aching because other players were getting “their” cards. Amazing how all these card counting schemes depend on everyone else playing perfect basic strategy.

Re: Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

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From the about page: Towards the end of 2017, I found myself wanting to play a quick game of something while I was working. That something turned out to be blackjack. I tried a few web-based games and downloaded a bunch to my phone. All of them either felt kinda scammy, were hard to look at, or just played way too slow. I like making things, so I made Blackjack Break. I hope it's a fun diversion for you like it is fo…

Very nicely done, enjoyed playing it! My only wish would be to hit after split, though the way you handled it is perfectly valid.

Re: Show HN: Blackjack Break, a minimal quick-play blackjack game

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Nice game. I'm glad you identified the major problem in many online blackjack toys - that they've got a scummy vibe to them - and done a clean break from that.

Some ideas:

* Keyboard shortcuts would be welcome - the click targets are grouped together on desktop and are not very large.

* Upscaling the game on desktop would be helpful for usability, it's quite small currently.

* I know it's just a hobby project, but it seems the action buttons are not in the tab order - was this deliberately removed? This seems like it would be a really easy step to take for at least minimal accessibility. Currently, a mouse is required on desktop due to this problem.

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