Looking for suggestions/advice

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

I wrote a nice mail to respond to all this but again, i got 
censured/waiting for approval...

grrr

you'll have to wait until Heather gets to it if she does in time...

in brief, i have such an engine... 

cheers
Xav

use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 12/08/2005 07:42:17:

> 
> On Aug 11, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Rodney Somerstein wrote:
> 
> > But, short of that, does anyone have any other suggestions?
> 
> I had thought of creating something like this as well in the past, 
> and had come to the conclusion that if I were doing it, I wouldn't 
> try to implement the rules. Instead, I'd simply focus on implementing 
> correct card behavior. So the game would understand a deck of cards, 
> a face-down card, a face-up card, and a card that is visible to only 
> a subset of players, with the ability to move each of these around on 
> a virtual table.
> 
> So for example, if you and I are playing blackjack and I am dealing, 
> I grab the deck and deal out a face up card on your side of the 
> table, a face down card on my side, a face up card on your side, and 
> a face up card on my side. I then "look" at my face down card. You 
> can see that I am looking, but not what I see.
> 
> Etc., etc.
> 
> The only thing preventing me from dealing both my cards face up is 
> that we both know how blackjack works. It doesn't need to be codified.
> 
> The end result is a virtual card table that can be used to play 
> almost any card game imaginable, without any further configuration. 
> We just need to agree to the rules.
> 
> I hadn't thought of stopping at cards -- implementing chess pieces 
> would be easier than playing cards, since they have a single 
> visibility state for all players. Want to play four-handed chess? 
> Chess on a 36x36 board with fifty pieces each? No problem, no 
> definition required.
> 
> Rev would be very well suited to this, by the way.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Geoff
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