Cards Game Library

• Download CardsSilverlight Source Code - 1.25 MB
• Solitaire Demo
• Spider Solitaire Demo 

Introduction

This is a C# class library for card games; it’s very useful for anyone who is thinking of developing a cards game especially with Silverlight, though it could be used with other .NET technologies. It’s also useful as a complete example for anyone who wants to learn Silverlight.

I’ve built two games (Solitaire, and Spider Solitaire) using this library and you can see from the source code that the code written in the individual game projects is minimal and only represent the game rules.

You can see the games on action in my blog:

http://bishoylabib.blogspot.com/2008/05/solitaire.html
http://bishoylabib.blogspot.com/2008/08/spider-solitaire.html 

The actual Silverlight applications are hosted on http://streaming.live.com which is a great free service from Microsoft.

Overview

The solution contains the following projects:

• Cards.Data

This is a library for card games, only contains card data and logic and doesn’t contain anything that is specific to Silverlight.

Contains the following classes:

Game: a class that represent the card game which contains decks and cards. From this class you can traverse all the other data classes.

Deck: a stack of cards that could be initialized and used as the full cards deck (52 cards) and draw from it to other decks like player hands or ground stacks.

Card: the actual card object.

• Cards.Silverlight

This is a library that has Silverlight controls that represent each of the above classes. Each control has a pointer to its associated data class and provides event handlers to its events and responds with graphics and animations.

Contains the following controls:

GameShape: This is the graphical representation of the Game class. Doesn’t have a lot of graphics logic but it contains a list of other graphical representations of the Decks and Cards that exists in the associated Game. And provides utility functions to find a shape that represent a card or deck data object.

DeckShape: This is the graphical representation of the Deck class. Handle the positioning of its contained cards according to a set of rules. Like drawing vertically and with a fixed space between cards and a maximum space for the whole deck.

CardShape: This is the graphical representation of the Card class. Provide animations to card events, mouse events and drag and drop behaviors.

• Solitaire

This is the Solitaire game. It only contains the main page with the logic of the game in code behind.

• SpiderSolitaire

This is the Solitaire game. It only contains the main page with the logic of the game in code behind.

Future

I’m thinking of expanding these libraries to include game logic that facilitate computer AI players and multiplayer network options. I’ll do this if I have time but if anyone of you can implement these features, that would make me very happy to know.