After another game we realized there was a rather important feature missing. The ability to pass a hand out. This is now added and in testing. The goal now is to clean up two of the more important areas and release a beta version.
Cleanup action 1.
There are essentially two ways into the game:-
- As a game director
- As a player
As a player, you should not need to log in or do anything complicated. (If you are an account holder and are already logged in then that will be fine too). We want this to be as easy as possible. For now, a player types in their name, types in the game ID, such as ‘smith123’, and is then connected to the game. But there are choices to make. You (the player) must decide how the device is going to work in the game. Is it staying in your pocket (with you) or remaining on one specific table. At the moment that is still not clean.
Cleanup action 2
When adding players to the table, it necessary to add all players (even if two are missing). You have to put a space in for the name. This fools the server into thinking that everyone is accounted for. This needs to be fixed. The code needs to change to check (for a pairs game) that there is only one pair missing, and preferably that they are located in the stationary seat. For an individual game I need to check that there are the right number present for the movement (not that simple with rovers etc).
But everything actually works to allow you to score a pairs, or individual game with either one or two winners. (Basically Howell or Mitchell). Team games will be added soon(ish).