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kedoska / engine-blackjack

Javascript library to make blackjack engines
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how to support multiple players? #19

Closed bboyazeal closed 7 years ago

bboyazeal commented 7 years ago

can i use this engine to support multiple players?

kedoska commented 7 years ago

TL;DR: not now. @bboyazeal the life circle in the engine is not considering multiple players. Right now it assumes only one player against the dealer.

but

it is certain possible to make it work with more than one player by adding 2 key features:

  1. while the stage is READY we can allow action like JOIN_TABLE. This will populate an array of available players before to start the life circle.
  2. scale the current available_actions by adding the concept of pending players before dispatching the SHOWDOWN

The main issue is still the coordination (clock), but that will remains a task for the server.

conclusion

I'm not interested in changing this project to become multi-player but, in a separate project, if you have time, I can probably participate in the development of the components to make a multiplayer blackjack server.

bboyazeal commented 7 years ago

thank you very much for your reply. And your advises.

And i will try to make this engine to become multi-player by myself first. if it works i will share the project in github.