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  • Cockatrice

    A cross-platform virtual tabletop for multiplayer card games

  • Cockatrice can do that, configured for magic by default if i remember correctly. Youll have to cough up image files for different card sets.

    There is a client and a server, so not super easy, but not hard if you have any sysadmin experience. I had a server up for almost a year once

    https://github.com/Cockatrice/Cockatrice

  • standard-deck

    Standard deck graphics for deck.of.cards

  • You can review the source code right here:

    https://github.com/deck-of-cards/standard-deck

    I'm not sure that there are many technical challenges. It's 10k lines of Javascript, and a ton of that are curly braces or blank whitespace lines.

    I certainly don't want to knock the author here. This IS a neat and satisfying little project. But I have to agree with a comment elsewhere in this sub-thread, pointing out that teenagers were making advanced 60fps video games with Flash back in the 1990's.

    Between Flash dying, and VB 6 dying, it feels like the ability for community members to simply MAKE SHIT has eroded tremendously. To be fair, a lot of this has to do with Windows declining as a monopoly desktop platform, and the rise of mobile as an alternate platform. Cross-platform is hard, especially across wildly different form factors and user interface types.

    But even so, I miss the days of people showing off cool shit all the time. Stuff you could touch, play with, use. Today the showcase is mostly libraries "written in Rust!", that you can use to build other libraries written in Rust. Along with half-baked tools like Flutter and React Native, that are eternally "one year away" from being suitable for desktop apps, and kinda suck compared to the tools we had decades ago.

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    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • car

    Multiplayer 2d car physics with JavaScript!

  • I'm the author of Deck.of.Cards, actually did the first version with Flash back in 2008. I started with Flash back in 1999, working in major ad agencies, and nowadays work as fullstack JS developer / entrepreneur.

    This project is just a small experiment of mine, wanted to fiddle around with nicer shuffle animation than what's usually seen, and inspire others as well by sharing the source code.

    I've also done https://car.js.org for example, and https://flanets.io – those as well just small side experiments..

  • car-ws

  • It's using socket.io, pretty simple stuff..

    Here's the car.js.org server-side for example, as simple example: https://github.com/pakastin/car-ws/blob/master/server/index....

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