Ho to Develop a Full Playing Cards Game C#

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I am working on developing a multiplayer internet card game using .Net. A hand of 10 cards will be dealt each player example 3 players. Players can then throw a card they dont need and select a new card from deck. After three rounds player having best hand wins.

I have the Deck Class, Player Class, Card class done. The question I have is

1. what would be the best technology to create the front end presentation layer? Considering this needs to be a cross platform to be played on web and mobile (iOS and Android)

2. What would be the best client server communication way? sockets? websockets? WCF etc to communicate between client and server?

3. Would be good to save the game data (All Deck Data, ALl player Hand Data, Current Position, Game State) in a database example so that the game can continue even if a player gets disconnected.

Posted 29-Apr-14 3:38am

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DaveSm12 21-May-14 14:32pm

I have a question of how did you have a class for player and hand, I am having issues with getting these to be setup correctly and wondered if you have an example I could look at.
wizard@sunflower.com thanks.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-29T05:33:00

You can simply use ASP.NET: http://www.asp.net/get-started[^].

The front end would be any Web browser with enabled Javascript, which solved the platform compatibility problem, the communication would be just HTTP, nothing else. Keep it simple; card games are not real-time, don't require anything fancy at all.

The big problem is the need for the server push. You need to have you players get notified on the move from the other side through the server, not sending periodic HTTP requests as it is typically done in all those stupid business systems. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_technology[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology[^].

So, I would also recommend SignalR:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SignalR[^],
http://www.asp.net/signalr[^].

I explained this key aspect in my past answer, please read carefully: Application 'dashboard' for website accounts[^].

Now, persistence on the server side? ADO.NET:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADO.NET[^],
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa286484.aspx[^].

This excellent CodeProject article can get you started in no time: Using ADO.NET for beginners[^].

As you can see, I answered all your questions in different order; it looks like this is all you need. No special communication technology, no special client-side or server-side platform, only the mainstream.

—SA