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There are alternatives to Godot, in particular I'll mention ZimJS https://zimjs.com/about.html#features https://zimjs.com/about.html#features Like you, I recen

There are alternatives to Godot, in particular I'll mention ZimJS https://zimjs.com/about.html#features https://zimjs.com/about.html#features Like you, I recently created an online casino game, Cheat at Blackjack https://play.cheatatbj.com/ 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 allowed me, a terrible artist, to program my game quickly and add a lot of visual flair -- dealing the cards, the dealer checking for blackjack, chips sliding, the bouncy result status, etc.

ipsin 3y ago
Interesting idea. Is this being played at any casinos yet? I'm curious how you sell them on the house advantage being real (e.g. a white paper, or some kind of insurance guarantees?). One thing your game could use is a "repeat bet" button.
- andy800 3y ago
  There's a big "repeat bet" button following every hand. Casinos and regulators require a game's house advantage to be "certified" by one of two specific third-parties. A big expense (both cost and time) when I am sufficiently qualified to calculate the long-term house advantage of the game (and spent lots of hours tweaking the rules and running models to reach a very specific result goal), but no way around it if you want to be in a b-and-m casino.
WA 3y ago
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: https://imgur.com/TcpHzT5 https://imgur.com/TcpHzT5 Checked the console, not sure if this caused the error, but here's an error trace: https://imgur.com/g75OXgJ https://imgur.com/g75OXgJ
- andy800 3y ago
  Thanks for the info, and for trying the game. I think the game saw you splitting 10s, realized how irrational that was, and that's what crashed it :)

ipsin 3y ago

Interesting idea. Is this being played at any casinos yet? I'm curious how you sell them on the house advantage being real (e.g. a white paper, or some kind of insurance guarantees?). One thing your game could use is a "repeat bet" button.

andy800 3y ago
There's a big "repeat bet" button following every hand. Casinos and regulators require a game's house advantage to be "certified" by one of two specific third-parties. A big expense (both cost and time) when I am sufficiently qualified to calculate the long-term house advantage of the game (and spent lots of hours tweaking the rules and running models to reach a very specific result goal), but no way around it if you want to be in a b-and-m casino.

WA 3y ago

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: https://imgur.com/TcpHzT5 https://imgur.com/TcpHzT5 Checked the console, not sure if this caused the error, but here's an error trace: https://imgur.com/g75OXgJ https://imgur.com/g75OXgJ

andy800 3y ago
Thanks for the info, and for trying the game. I think the game saw you splitting 10s, realized how irrational that was, and that's what crashed it :)