October 27, 2009

Erlang Poker Server + HTML5 Canvas

Hey, today i was walking around git-hub checking some erlang projects, and i found this really great erlang poker server, from the greater Joel Reymont.

Well to be honest i dont really give a damm about poker, i never played it, online or in real world, but i have a lot of friends completely addicted to it, so its a topic that catches my attention.

So i start to wonder how great would be to build a client to this server, and i remember a discussion i had earlier with @telmodiasand @jclopesabout htm5 canvas and flash, and the battle to control rich interface applications. EUREKA! Lets build a client for the openpoker server using canvas, to prove that its possible to build a rich interface like the ones exist today in flash (like this one ) much more lighter and faster.

Since i have tons of other projects to work in, this is going to the “when i get time” department, and then probably to oblivion… so i would be really happy to help anybody that would like to really do it :)

If you are not convinced check 9elements experiment of canvas, just amazing :)

  • Glassresistor
    Hey your post is a little old but if your still interested I'm thinking about working on a html5 poker game to be plaiyed with bitcoin as the currency. If your interested get back to me. If the erland poker game ends up not compiling I'm pretty sure I could write one with pygame and either tornado or django pretty quickly.
  • Raghavan
    I would be interested , but did you manage to get the pokerserver up and running ?
  • darkua
    Hehe, good question :) I just tried to run the install doc on git hub ( http://github.com/wagerlabs/openpoker/blob/mast... ) and i got a lot of errors :S

    Dont really know what can be the problem, but the best is to check with Joel the creator ( http://github.com/wagerlabs )

    Cheers
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