By Pit Garbe
Poker Texas Hold'em! Scroll down for more info/screenies.
Click here for developers gameplay page
Playing instructions:
The game is controlled by swiping gestures, taps and double taps.
The swiping directions can be seen by tap-holding the question mark in
the lower right corner of the playing table, whenever it's the players
turn.
The swipes have to be done quickly, as if you wanted to flick through a
long list quickly, using its inertia-feature. So, no slow
swiping-then-stop-then-lifting-the-finger. Just one quick and smooth
action.
Swiping left deals the hand and is the only gesture that does anything
in the very beginning of the game or after a hand is completed.
Swiping right calls a bid.
Swiping up shows the bet/raise dialog. There you have to select the
amount of chips to add to the current highest bid or set if there was no
bid made yet. Swipe up again to confirm it. Swipe down to reset to the
minimum bid thats possible (equal to the amount of chips to call) in
case you added chips already, or if already reset then it closes the bet
dialog.
Swiping down, when no bet/raise dialog is shown, will fold your cards.
Double tap will check, if you have the option to do so.
Whenever a hand is completed and the winner announcement is shown, the
question mark in the corner is replaced with a donation link, which,
when you tap on it, will immediatly stop and close the game and bring up
the donation page in Safari. So, take care not to hit it accidentaly
(quite unlikely in that corner), but please feel free to use it the way
it is intented, to support further development, most importantly the
port to the official SDK, which I think will soon be necessary. To do
this, I'll need Mac OS, thus I need a Mac. And I absolutely can't buy
one without the help of the community. You get the point...
Feel free to mail bug reports, but please try to be as specific as
possible. I removed all debug messages in the public version, and will
continue delivering the debug edition to my testers, so they can supply
me with more detailed logs of the gameplay.
Now, enough said. Play and have some fun :)
