node-poker-stack is a node.js Texas Holdem game server and web client. Some notable features are real-time game-play and chat, multiple game rooms, support up to 10 players per room with a combination of human and bot players.
- Texas Holdem game engine for up to 10 players per room based on node-poker.
- Configure bots to join at intervals and play against humans or other bots. They will make use of a hand evaluator, and were very useful for debugging game logic.
- Multiple simultaneous game rooms with individual game rules (blinds, buyins, # of players, etc).
- Real-time game and chat interaction between clients via web sockets.
- Robust game records are stored which include each player action and along with game results.
- Rudimentary friend system to check whether friends are online, chat, and join their games.
- A basic web client server is available (node.js + backbone.js + websocket web browser client).
- Real-time communication between server and client.
- Distributed architecture to scale painlessly.
- Pluggable architecture to easily add new features.
- SDKs for a variety of clients (javascript, flash, android, iOS, cocos2d-x, C).
- See Pomelo Framework for more information.
- User and table data is persisted to file store rather than database.
- Web browser client could be improved (uses vanilla bootstrap.js).
- Add more client platforms (android, ios, phonegap, etc).
- git clone https://github.com/vampserv/node-poker-stack.git
- ./npm-install.sh
- node game-server/app
- open another terminal window
- node web-server/app
- go to http://localhost:3002 to access web client
- register a new user and login
- create a game room, join the game, and wait
- bots will join the game to play
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Copyright (c) 2012-2014 Edward Yang
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