Project Details

The aims of this project were:

• To build an online poker game which people will be able to play and hopefully learn about poker
• To make the game available to a wide range of people either on a website or on a phone app

There were a number of structures needed to achieve the goals stated:

• Designing the game
• Coding the game
• Implementing the game in a format

The first process was looking at the types of games which are available in the poker market. With a variety of big brands such party poker and full tilt poker to name a few already having their own software games. We wanted to try to build something which was similar but a lot more fun as well as free for everyone to play.

We came up with the idea of making a poker version of the popular game Mario, Mario is a well known character from Nintendo. The game would have various images relating to the Mario world as well as the familiar tune which is associated with it.

The game would be very simple with the player being allowed to make a bet between different amounts and then deal cards. The player will be able to choose which cards to discard and make various choices in the game.

The second process which we looked at which ways we could expose the game which we developed to the wider public. This has benefits to us as we could receive feedback and comments from people who were not involved in our course and help us write our evaluations, this also would help us during the testing process.

We decided to create a simple website which would allow us to make the game available to download and also allow players to play the game online.