Diamond Retrospective: Card Game in HTML5 (LPHS-025)

Context

In November 2012, online card games were very popular and HTML5 offered the tools needed to create them without plugins.

What is this article about?

The article proposes creating a card game in HTML5, covering card display, shuffling, dealing and game logic.

Summary

How about playing cards on the table?

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Published in Linux Pratique Special Issue #25, November 2012.

In this issue

This article is part of issue LPHS-025. Here are the other articles by Sébastien Chazallet in this issue:

• HTML5 / CSS3: why create web games?
• Graphics: using the canvas
• Collision detection
• Keyboard and mouse controls
• Using external fonts
• A tic-tac-toe game in HTML5
• Level editor
• Create a complete game with an isometric map