Thursday, August 05, 2004

Card games at www.rubl.com

All card games at www.rubl.com were created with the same basic original object library for playing cards creation, showing, manipulation and animation. Currently we have 2 multiplayer games: Gin-Rummy (www.rubl.com/games/gin-rummy/index.html) and Cribbage (www.rubl.com/games/cribbage/index.html). Canasta is coming soon. As for single-player card games, we have 2 solitaire-type popular games, the Solitaire itself (www.rubl.com/games/solitaire/), Freecell (www.rubl.com/games/freecell/) and 2 other games, based on video-poker and black-jack games - Poker-rush (www.rubl.com/games/poker/) - advanced video-poker game with addtional skill feature and Rush-21 (www.rubl.com/games/blackjack-rush/) - advanced blackjack game with 4 columns to collect 21 point in each one.

Wednesday, August 04, 2004

java games at www.rubl.com

This is a first record about creating java browser-based games for www.rubl.com.

There are several multiplayer games (actually two-player games now), like gin-rummy, cribbage, backgammon, dominoes, chess, checkers - popular two-player card and board games. Java clients connect to the gaming server - a multithreaded application, each gaming server visually corresponds to one gaming room. Players can play for free or set different stakes for a game and wait for opponent. There is a support for tournaments, different tournament schemes etc.
The other type of games is so called arcade games, though it can be not only arcade, but card or tile games. The main difference - thy are not multiplayer games, but single player games, players participate in automatically open tournaments, reach some score during certain time and then the winner is selected according to the best score among all the players from this tournament. The games are solitaire, freecell, poker-rush (like video-poker), lines (popular russian games), rush-21 (skill based variation of black-jack game with some math background), pharaoh's treasure (collapse-like game), mahjong or mahjongg solitaire.
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