What’s Next

Hey guys,

It’s been pretty quiet lately here on GameplayCoder, but I’ve also been busy behind the scenes learning new skills for more games to add to my portfolio.

Poker Game

Having finished up the card-matching and hand-comparing techniques for poker, the next project will involve coding an actual poker (Texas Hold’em) game.

As for implementing the rules for poker itself, I found a useful article on 888poker that goes over basics, terminology, and flow of the game. There is also this game available from 24/7 Free Poker, which I’ve been playing to help further understand the game/

But I want it to be a multiplayer game (as well as single-player vs AI), and it’s the multiplayer functionality that will prove most challenging.

So, I’ve been taking a course over on Zenva called MMORPG Academy, which teaches you how to build a multiplayer game using various technologies, and middlewares, including but not limited to:

• Phaser 3
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• npm
• socket.io
• Express
• CORS
• webpack
• MongoDB
• Docker

The only tool in this list I did not use was Docker, because it requires virtualization to run, and if your operating system is Windows 10 Home, you’re pretty much outta luck. Of all the suggestions I’ve tried around the net, none of them worked, and I wasn’t about to upgrade to Pro just for Docker. Besides, you don’t really need it to complete this course anyway.

Everything except Phaser and JavaScript on that list was completely new to me. 🙃 So, I’m taking in a lot of new material in this course. But as Tony Stark himself said,

Flash To HTML5 Game Conversion

According to my data, an article I wrote, Converting a Flash Game To HTML5, by far, has received the most views.

After looking at these numbers, I’m like:

So I will be revisiting this topic by converting another Flash game I coded for a previous client, called Blasteroids. This is a remake of Atari’s Asteroids.

If you’d like to play the Flash game I coded, you can play it on my old portfolio site here. Otherwise, if you can’t (or won’t) be bothered with Flash, you can watch this video of my gameplay – and epic fails. 😅

Thanks for being a reader of this blog, and stay tuned. There’s more to come!

– C. out.