Hi BGA developers.
I'm on a quest to make a game (somewhere, but preferably on BGA) which is a mash up of Texas Holdem poker and Scrabble (or any other word game e.g. Countdown). The premise is simple. The rules of Texas Holdem poker still apply, but instead of a deck of playing cards, we'll use a deck of letters instead. When comparing hand the player who makes the longest legal word from their card + the table cards wins the hand. If words are of equal length or all words offered are illegal then players split the pot like you woudl in a tied hand in poker.
Example:
Alice's Hand: S T
Bob's Hand: F A
Table: E E U R T
When showing down cards, Bob offers FEATURE (7) which trumps Alice's offering of TESTER (6) and Bob claims the pot.
My question for the BGA developers is whether anybody is aware of an existing Poker Implementation available on BGA (i searched the existing catalogue of games but found nothing). Theoretically, if there is a well written poker game already on BGA and the creator is happy for me to mod it, then it wouldn't be too hard to turn my idea into reality.
Note that the game would be just for fun, so no real money involved.
Thanks!
I'm on a quest to make a game (somewhere, but preferably on BGA) which is a mash up of Texas Holdem poker and Scrabble (or any other word game e.g. Countdown). The premise is simple. The rules of Texas Holdem poker still apply, but instead of a deck of playing cards, we'll use a deck of letters instead. When comparing hand the player who makes the longest legal word from their card + the table cards wins the hand. If words are of equal length or all words offered are illegal then players split the pot like you woudl in a tied hand in poker.
Example:
Alice's Hand: S T
Bob's Hand: F A
Table: E E U R T
When showing down cards, Bob offers FEATURE (7) which trumps Alice's offering of TESTER (6) and Bob claims the pot.
My question for the BGA developers is whether anybody is aware of an existing Poker Implementation available on BGA (i searched the existing catalogue of games but found nothing). Theoretically, if there is a well written poker game already on BGA and the creator is happy for me to mod it, then it wouldn't be too hard to turn my idea into reality.
Note that the game would be just for fun, so no real money involved.
Thanks!
