How to present an option to players
Posted: 14 August 2018, 10:08
Hello!
I'm on day 2 of creating a new card game in the public domain (Klaverjas, or Klaverjassen) to BGA and must admit, I'm quite excited about it. I'm a very senior, experienced programmer although typically with C++, C#, some Python, etc.
Anyway, my question isn't a programming one, that's been relatively easy so far other than a few gotchas with not reloading gameoptions, etc.
In Klaverjas, the person to the left of the dealer (in my first variant), let's say, has to choose a trump suit. It's completely arbitrary, and doesn't have to be a card they have in hand. I have played literally thousands of games on BGA, but very few (if any?) card games with a normal deck.
How would you suggest I present this option to the player? Are there games that do this that I could look at?
The option I'm looking at presently would be to create a separate deck with just the 2 of each suit (which aren't used in Klaverjas at all, by the way), show them to the player and have them select one.
There are a lot of steps to that though, and while not overly complicated, seems like it's worth asking if there's a simpler way to just present a player with a static choice that looks good, and is consistent across the site. I'm mostly just not familiar with any games that do that although I'm sure there's several.
--Andy
I'm on day 2 of creating a new card game in the public domain (Klaverjas, or Klaverjassen) to BGA and must admit, I'm quite excited about it. I'm a very senior, experienced programmer although typically with C++, C#, some Python, etc.
Anyway, my question isn't a programming one, that's been relatively easy so far other than a few gotchas with not reloading gameoptions, etc.
In Klaverjas, the person to the left of the dealer (in my first variant), let's say, has to choose a trump suit. It's completely arbitrary, and doesn't have to be a card they have in hand. I have played literally thousands of games on BGA, but very few (if any?) card games with a normal deck.
How would you suggest I present this option to the player? Are there games that do this that I could look at?
The option I'm looking at presently would be to create a separate deck with just the 2 of each suit (which aren't used in Klaverjas at all, by the way), show them to the player and have them select one.
There are a lot of steps to that though, and while not overly complicated, seems like it's worth asking if there's a simpler way to just present a player with a static choice that looks good, and is consistent across the site. I'm mostly just not familiar with any games that do that although I'm sure there's several.
--Andy