Re: [pbmserv-dev] Hearts and MHearts

[John Williams <williams@tni.com>]

It seems to be the whim of the programmer whether the variants are
combined or separate.  I tend to use challenge options for variants,
where others use a separate game, but maybe that means the variants
don't get noticed as much.

Consider:

   Othello             loa (or) checkers
   Reversi             loa -scrambled
   ROthello            checkers -reverse

I even made DaiShogi a variant of ChuShogi, which may be going a bit too
far, but neither is extremely popular considering the endurance it takes
to finish a game.

~ sharkey


On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Lyman Hurd wrote:

> Maybe if Ted gets energetic he might consider merging
> the two by adding a "once through" mode to mhearts but
> at the moment there seems to be little harm in having
> two.  After all,, Zrtz and Zertz+11 are separate games
> for example.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lyman
>
> --- Mark Ballinger <mballinger@ballinger.cx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 09:53:15PM -0400, Randall
> > Bart wrote:
> > > Why are there two versions of Hearts on the
> > server?  It looks like Hearts
> > > is a subset of MHearts, and serves no particular
> > purpose.
> >
> > hearts was the first game of the two games on this
> > server.  The game ends after one hand, and the
> > "winner" is the low scorer
> > with tie going to the low trick taker.
> >
> > mhearts is multi-handed, going to 100 points.  It
> > was only recently coded by Ted Rathkopf.
> >
> > > Not that I am going to play either.  When I want
> > to play Hearts I go to
> > > Pogo and play real time.  I see this server as a
> > place for rarer games.
> >
> > To each his own.  I like playing against people I've
> > come to know, and I can rarely get a game going in
> > real life.  It's also
> > a good programming exercise.
> >
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