Maybe just a good card game. A story need not be in it, but if it does, it wouldn’t hurt. Craps, poker, blackjack, one armed bandits, roulette, etc.
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There was one Comp game a couple years back that had a collection of gaming games, though I don’t remember it being very interesting:
There are probably a fair number of games with like blackjack mini games, but not recalling any off the top of my head.
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I don’t know about good card games, but you play blackjack in Ballyhoo, and there’s Double Fanucci in Zork Zero.
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I’m not sure Double Fanucci can be considered a card game so much as a copy-protection mechanism.
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My TADS3 WIP is a TADS3 WIP instead of an I7 WIP specifically because I could figure out how to do a draw poker AI in T3 and I couldn’t in I7.
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a casino is an interesting setting. optimal for heist, espionage & detective genres, I daresay.
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Worked for Vain Empires!
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There’s a sample module on the inform 6 website that handles blackjack (although I think technically it’s pontoon). I’m planning to have a poker mini game in my current WIP, but I think I’ll probably end up simplifying it down to blackjack.
And now I can add Super Caesar’s Palace to the list of video games from my childhood/adolescence I’d love to have demade as a text adventure… Which reminds me I have old C++ and Java code I’ve written for cards, dice, and slots I’ve been meaning to combine into a rudimentary Casino sim.
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