Game Development

[quadoc]

I want to develop a card game similiar to a poker game and hosted on a website. This game will allow minimum of one user and maximum of four users to play together or against the computer if one user. Does anyone have any tips as how to go about this? Please post some tips. Thanks!!!

[Mushroom Realm]

This is a tough program.

Alright, if you want it totally on the web and you want to use vb then just make it like any other program but at the end use the activex document migration wizard to make it an activex and launch it with vbscript.

Im thinking that you should use winsock for all the networking parts. Check out winsockvb.com for some tutorials(i just started learning it myself).

You can bum the graphics off something like solitare or hearts (come with windows), just use print screen.

To make the hands random you'll need a random number generator. Just generate however many random numbers you need and then have each card associated with a number.

Good luck with the computers ai. I suggest just giving them a hand and aking them stick with it, if you were going to allow card tradeins.

I suggest going down to the library and checking out a couple of quickstart java books, and just using that instead.

[Liquid Pennies]

dont bother using printscreen

either grab a template off the web or use resource hacker and take apart sol.exe

[Advent]

Or you could use cards32.dll, or whatever its called. A quick web search should turn up a few things on it. In fact, I have a link to a tutorial somewhere... http://rookscape.com/vbgaming/tutU.php

Pretty easy to use. I created the card game Spit with it once.