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Very cool idea!!! You can basically play ANYTHING with this. The only feature missing that each player should be able to look their cards only in a way that oth

Very cool idea!!! You can basically play ANYTHING with this. The only feature missing that each player should be able to look their cards only in a way that others can't see it. Edit: Oh wow, it's not missing! If you put the card in top of the player icon, only that player can reveal it, nice!!

codetrotter 7y ago
> You can basically play ANYTHING with this. That is very clever indeed! A long while ago I started thinking about how to turn Klondike solitaire into a multiplayer game. I wrote a bit of code. Put it aside for a while. Wrote more code. Bought a domain. Wrote a little bit more code. And then stopped. The problem in my case is that I still haven't decided quite how to make it multiplayer. Kudos to pkstn for being clever and executing the idea well too. By the way, if anyone has any ideas for how multiplayer solitaire could work, let me know in a reply to this comment :) I've had two different possible ideas in mind so far: 1) Do it similar to "Twitch plays Pokemon". Everyone can input the next move. And I think the action taken should be consensus-based. Even then someone could try and ruin it though by just controlling a lot of players. With Twitch plays Pokemon they were able to complete the game eventually even with the people working against the goal. But with a short game like Klondike solitaire it will be very easy for someone to ruin it for everyone. Even if the game has undo. 2) Everyone plays alone but they compete in real-time against others. However, bots would likely beat everyone and ruin the fun of that. So I think neither of the two initial ideas I had were good enough. I think something clever needs to be done. I suppose that one could incorporate Klondike as part a bigger overarching world where you do Klondike "battles" against either other players or against individual NPCs by yourself, or as a team against NPCs or something. But then the question becomes what is the motivation for having Klondike be part of the game at all? And the problem of bots being able to beat everyone would still be hard to get rid of I think. Here is the site I put up for mine: https://klondike-mmo.com/ https://klondike-mmo.com/. None of the buttons on my site do anything, heh :P
- pkstn 7y ago
  I will open source it soon here: https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards
- juicyjames55 7y ago
  What about speed or spit sometimes it's called, they are kinda like multiplayer solitaire.
Ascalaphus 7y ago
What would be nice to really be able to play anything with it, would be a selection of used cards. That would mean for example choosing if the deck goes from Ace to King, or from 7 to King, or even if it contains jokers. Even more advanced would be allowing multiple copies of cards, the game Doppelkopf for example is commonly played with two cards each of (9)/10/J/Q/K/A for every suit.
- kissgyorgy 7y ago
  You can actually do that right now by putting unused cards aside, but it is a little bit cumbersome, because shuffle will put it back.
  - pkstn 7y ago
    I will make shuffle to only shuffle the deck and add ”Collect” button this evening..
  - pkstn 7y ago
    I mean game editor, I will add that :D
- pkstn 7y ago
  I will add possibility to create more decks and jokers.. The old version actually gives you jokers when you click all kings in a row (easier to do if you click ”by suit” first)
fouc 7y ago
I didn't see the player icons until I tried zooming out. That was confusing! (1280x900 standard 13" rMBP resolution)
- pkstn 7y ago
  Yeah, I’ll make that better..
pkstn 7y ago
Yeah, that’s how it work! Will need to add help/tutorial there..

codetrotter 7y ago

> You can basically play ANYTHING with this. That is very clever indeed! A long while ago I started thinking about how to turn Klondike solitaire into a multiplayer game. I wrote a bit of code. Put it aside for a while. Wrote more code. Bought a domain. Wrote a little bit more code. And then stopped. The problem in my case is that I still haven't decided quite how to make it multiplayer. Kudos to pkstn for being clever and executing the idea well too. By the way, if anyone has any ideas for how multiplayer solitaire could work, let me know in a reply to this comment :) I've had two different possible ideas in mind so far: 1) Do it similar to "Twitch plays Pokemon". Everyone can input the next move. And I think the action taken should be consensus-based. Even then someone could try and ruin it though by just controlling a lot of players. With Twitch plays Pokemon they were able to complete the game eventually even with the people working against the goal. But with a short game like Klondike solitaire it will be very easy for someone to ruin it for everyone. Even if the game has undo. 2) Everyone plays alone but they compete in real-time against others. However, bots would likely beat everyone and ruin the fun of that. So I think neither of the two initial ideas I had were good enough. I think something clever needs to be done. I suppose that one could incorporate Klondike as part a bigger overarching world where you do Klondike "battles" against either other players or against individual NPCs by yourself, or as a team against NPCs or something. But then the question becomes what is the motivation for having Klondike be part of the game at all? And the problem of bots being able to beat everyone would still be hard to get rid of I think. Here is the site I put up for mine: https://klondike-mmo.com/ https://klondike-mmo.com/. None of the buttons on my site do anything, heh :P

pkstn 7y ago
I will open source it soon here: https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards https://github.com/pakastin/deck-of-cards
juicyjames55 7y ago
What about speed or spit sometimes it's called, they are kinda like multiplayer solitaire.

Ascalaphus 7y ago

What would be nice to really be able to play anything with it, would be a selection of used cards. That would mean for example choosing if the deck goes from Ace to King, or from 7 to King, or even if it contains jokers. Even more advanced would be allowing multiple copies of cards, the game Doppelkopf for example is commonly played with two cards each of (9)/10/J/Q/K/A for every suit.

kissgyorgy 7y ago
You can actually do that right now by putting unused cards aside, but it is a little bit cumbersome, because shuffle will put it back.
- pkstn 7y ago
  I will make shuffle to only shuffle the deck and add ”Collect” button this evening..
- pkstn 7y ago
  I mean game editor, I will add that :D
pkstn 7y ago
I will add possibility to create more decks and jokers.. The old version actually gives you jokers when you click all kings in a row (easier to do if you click ”by suit” first)

fouc 7y ago

I didn't see the player icons until I tried zooming out. That was confusing! (1280x900 standard 13" rMBP resolution)

pkstn 7y ago
Yeah, I’ll make that better..

pkstn 7y ago

Yeah, that’s how it work! Will need to add help/tutorial there..