The screen seems somewhat distorted/deformed when displaying on my phone browser.
It's a CRT, it's supposed to look like that :)
Show HN: Classic Video Poker
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#22All that's missing is the cigarette smoke and the sense of small-town desperation.
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#23I guess you could tractably compute the optimal policy for every hand. What is it?
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#24Lovely game and art style, and the idea of 80s style games is great!
I would throw in my two cents with the following idea: I would love a modern, well made collection of classical games such as the one linked, available on many platforms, with cloud saves, even to the point of which game was picked. I would love to decompress by playing Solitaire for 5 mins in my lunch break on my iPhone, come home, open the computer and finish the game up on the big screen and enjoy the cards jumping all over the place.
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#25Awesome. I remember when everybody played basically this exact machine in middle school when we used to sneak to the market during recess. There used to be all kinds of different varieties of slot machines at basically every market and gas station in Finland, regulated by a sanctioned monopoly called RAY. Nobody really cared if you played one at whatever age, especially in the 90's. Wild times.
People cared even less on cruise ships. Those were mainly using paf machines though, probably for legal reasons. Search "paf joker poker" for images of the classic machine. Nice features was the joker and double or nothing.
I played this kind of games a lot since I was 7 years old because we used to travel a lot. One time I made a win sharing deal with my brother to reduce risk of an unlucky streak, but I immediately hit the jackpot after that. Good times.
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#26Awesome. Please make your games supportable in Linux(or Proton) as well if your game ships natively.
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#27I really like Godot so far but the debugging tools are massively inferior to any other IDE and language I've ever used. I waste so much time trying to track down bugs. Proper variable inspection would be a life saver, for instance.
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#28This is so cool, I really dig the CRT look! Nice job!
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#29Just me or is it super unintuitive that you HOLD rather than dismiss cards? Happened like a dozen times now that I throw the cards I want to keep.
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#30I guess you could tractably compute the optimal policy for every hand. What is it?
There’s pages on the internet for this, with nice mental shortcuts. I remember trying to study one such page before going out in Vegas. It’s pretty silly because even playing optimally your EV is still negative