I am very interested in discussing visualization solutions with you. I was planning to do what you mentioned here in Unreal to visualize financial data.
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#182Very, very nice. A "play-again" button/screen would be a nice addition, as reloading the page to play again takes some time.
Yes... didn't expect the attention :-) Server is a potato.
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#183I feel the same. I've worked with Unity for quite some time (though gladly don't anymore), but always had trouble trying to learn Unreal. Recently I tried godot and I found it quite easy to get started! I love the game. Had a lot of fun playing for some time. but just one question, shouldn't pair of A be considered "higher than jacks"? Because it looks like it's not: https://imgur.com/a/ov2UP1D
Happy that you like the game :-) Aces are low in this version.
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#184Ended on a hand of: K J A A Q and did not receive the Jacks or Better $1 payout. According to a brief search about the rules of video poker, a pair of aces is considered better than a pair of jacks.
Aces are low in this game - it's deliberate. But given the constant feedback maybe I should just make them high ;-)
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#185There are alternatives to Godot, in particular I'll mention ZimJS https://zimjs.com/about.html#features Like you, I recently created an online casino game, Cheat at Blackjack https://play.cheatatbj.com/ and used ZimJS for all of the animation. I considered Godot but found it simpler to do everything in client-side JS. Zim's web site is definitely a bit "out there" but the animation features are quite good and it allo…
Fun game, but I might have encountered a bug. I played fair and were allowed to split 3 times. This made the UI crash after I won so that I couldn't continue. The buttons "repeat bets" and "collect" wouldn't show anymore:
Checked the console, not sure if this caused the error, but here's an error trace: https://imgur.com/g75OXgJ
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#186The visuals are perfect, looks very much like a CRT...nicely done. I think I found a bug though...pair of Aces doesn't pay as "Jacks or Better": https://imgur.com/a/78B3oPV
Aces are the low card in the game. You are not the first person to say this! I need to look at the math again to make them high cards... However in my opinion (at risk of getting everyones ire) - I think the ace is the "1" card.
After it's fixed you can add an option for "around the corner" straights, which count an ace both ways and wrap. For example: Q-K-A-2-3
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#187Very cool! Interested in the dealing logic, is it 'fair' or does it mimic real machines and do payout percentages?
It shuffles one deck randomly and deals from that deck. New shuffle every deal/draw cycle.
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#188The visuals are perfect, looks very much like a CRT...nicely done. I think I found a bug though...pair of Aces doesn't pay as "Jacks or Better": https://imgur.com/a/78B3oPV
Aces are the low card in the game. You are not the first person to say this! I need to look at the math again to make them high cards... However in my opinion (at risk of getting everyones ire) - I think the ace is the "1" card.
This has me very curious. What lead you to believe that an Ace is a low card in poker?
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#189This is fun, but the game doesn't seem to accept that a pair of aces is a winning result. Aces specifically, other face cards work as intended.
Aces are low :-)
You've had to explain this so many times lol
it's not the intuitive way people expect the game to work, I thought it was a bug too when I found it
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#190Ended on a hand of: K J A A Q and did not receive the Jacks or Better $1 payout. According to a brief search about the rules of video poker, a pair of aces is considered better than a pair of jacks.
Aces are low in this game - it's deliberate. But given the constant feedback maybe I should just make them high ;-)
I think you're getting constant feedback on it because that's the way almost all versions of Poker are played.
Aces _can_ be low in the case of an A-1-2-3-4 straight, but they can almost always be high as well, and almost always beat K.
Having aces always be low/never be high is super uncommon (it may not even exist in Poker, but I can't say for certain).