Ultimate Blackjack [Moddable for custom text]

[serapisdeath]

Stand on 17+ as a default, play 14-16 cautiously depending on what the dealer is showing. Great game. Got her on the third try.

[ian66613]

Really love the pov stuff when you lose.

[TheEldritchPrince]

Just 'cos I'm curious, did she have to strip when losing?

[lati65]

Good game overall, though i have yet to beat her, keyword yet. I love how it looks and though there are times where it seems like it's biased towards the dealer, if you play it "safe" and don't bet above $10, then there are points where it becomes a stalemate and both yours and the dealers cash lose/gain tends to flat line. One thing i have found is there are times where you will wind up with your cash being at $167 or $382, it's just something i noticed. Other then that, it's a good game, now if only i could beat her.

[Ryan-Drakel]

The hell-?!

I closed the game by accident and when i started it back up, the funds were the same. o.o;;

Was that meant to happen?
...
and personally i think the system cheats. Every hand so far has me losing.

The opponent always beats me by "1" or "2"
ALWAYS...

something's not right...
Every time I hit the "Double button" that's when I get punched in the face.

... And I've noticing that some cards actually SUBTRACT From the totals.

now I'm getting irritated... =.=;;;

[Journeyman]

Schpadoinkle, definitely planning on more dealers one way or another way. One way: If donations reach enough to commission another set from TBB, I'll ask him for another dealer and add it to this game. Other way: I'm also planning/making another Blackjack game with another artist as well, although that one is on a bit of a break right now.

Liz, thanks for the suggestions! Bunny dealers are definitely planned. Glad to hear you've had fun playing, and thanks for the compliments

radiogenicvore, excellent! Thank you for reporting this!!! I'll try to stamp out all of these doubling problems in an update soon.

Battalia, yayy! Glad it was interesting enough to lure you into putting time into it ^^ --and gosh, you're right! I think it's meant to be her thumb, but..a bit long. I'll see what I can do.

ian66613, ysy! Thanks!

Ryan-Drakel, muahahahahahaha. Check out my programming skillz! ;D Yes, it is absolutely supposed to hang onto your score when you quit. Imagine that you had to close the game in a hurry. After an eternity of battling to get ahead, you'd be pretty ticked if your money went away! If you *want* to reset the game without winning/losing, just type reset and press Enter. Side note: Personally, I think the game doesn't cheat, and I have the code to prove it! ;D You might not want to play a casino any time soon Check out something like http://www.blackjack-trainer.net/ to see what's going wrong!

[Ryan-Drakel]

oh I know what's going on. Every time I get a card that's 19-20-21, my opponent always beats me by ONE. Or flat-out TIES me. =.=;

I Think the RNG is prejudiced.

Orrrrr you could be lying that it's "Fair" and programmed the AI to win 95% of the time. =w=

Paranoia, ho!

[Bright]

I wrote a little story for the game.
http://aryion.com/g4/view/293784

[Humbug]

oh I know what's going on. Every time I get a card that's 19-20-21, my opponent always beats me by ONE. Or flat-out TIES me. =.=;

I Think the RNG is prejudiced.

Orrrrr you could be lying that it's "Fair" and programmed the AI to win 95% of the time. =w=

Paranoia, ho!

If the AI was programmed to win 95% of the time, you wouldn't be getting people in this thread who can win consistently. I think you might want to check out that blackjack trainer link.

[Ryan-Drakel]

Oh one more thing. Not sure if ya noticed but there are some cards that add NOTHING or subtract something.
Is that supposed to happen??

[Humbug]

Oh one more thing. Not sure if ya noticed but there are some cards that add NOTHING or subtract something.
Is that supposed to happen??

If you have an ace that counts as 11, as soon as you go over 10 with your other cards, it defaults the ace to a 1 value, which can reduce your total.

Say you have an ace and a six. That's 17 total. Then you get a five. If the ace stayed 11, you'd total 22 and lose, but aces can be either 11 or 1, so it defaults to 1, turning your total to 12.

[Ryan-Drakel]

Oh one more thing. Not sure if ya noticed but there are some cards that add NOTHING or subtract something.
Is that supposed to happen??

If you have an ace that counts as 11, as soon as you go over 10 with your other cards, it defaults the ace to a 1 value, which can reduce your total.

Say you have an ace and a six. That's 17 total. Then you get a five. If the ace stayed 11, you'd total 22 and lose, but aces can be either 11 or 1, so it defaults to 1, turning your total to 12.

Dont think I had an ace... but next time it happens without an ace I'll take a screeny.

EDIT: Finally... flakking... beat her....

NUMEROUS TIMES she has beaten my hand ALWAYS by 1 point... [RNG HATES ME...]

Hope to see some other ladies. [maybe some who don't mind/enjoy being eaten.]

Actualeeee... How about you take offered characters? [or will that be a "DONORS ONLY" perk? =.=?]

[Reaverbot]

If you get really frustrated you can savescum by opening a different instance of the program after every hand and closing it if you lose. It's pretty annoyin though and better to just go the normal way

[RumiBelly]

one more bug. during a split betting everything if you lose the first cards it won't play the second. ex. dealer has 19 I have 16 and 20 I went all in money at 0. I lost the 16 so I got eaten without it playing the 20, where if it had I would have been safe 1 more round.

[eatmeplease]

Any program will use the RNG that your OS provides, the program just hooks into that. So if you're losing consistently, it could be something wrong with your OS. People who are having problems, are any other programs doing weird things?

[Teruyo]

Found a bug. If you double down and the hand is tied, you just get your original money back, and the rest of the double vanishes into the aether, never to be seen again. It doesn't appear to cause any problems, the game still ends when either party hits $0, but I ended up winning my first game with $950. I also noticed that Raven's demeanor is dependent on the ratio of your money to her money, not specific money values, 'cuz she starts doing the different poses at different money levels if you encounter the bug.

That said! That was fun. It's Blackjack, the game is simple enough. I very much enjoy Raven's dialogue and reactions, though it does get repetitive after a while. Wasn't too hard to win, just betting $50 each time and doubling down on a 10-12 opening hand (sometimes on 13 or 14 if I'm feeling ballsy). Definitely looking forward to more, might chip in some myself, depending on how finances look at the end of the month.

EDIT: Using the bug, I've gotten to be able to play with negative amounts of money, not losing when going below 0. Unfortunately I lost the next hand, so I didn't get to see what happens if you win with negative money.

EDIT 2: ELECTRIC BUGALU: Visual bug. The text box "Hey, do you even know why I'm in this crazy outfit? ... It's bait" line takes up 4 lines, and exits the text box.

[hernextmeal]

Any program will use the RNG that your OS provides, the program just hooks into that. So if you're losing consistently, it could be something wrong with your OS. People who are having problems, are any other programs doing weird things?

No, it's fairly well known that many OSes and versions of OSes ship shitty PRNG algos so many programs and libraries ship their own PRNG libs (eg. Python uses an implementation of the Mersenne Twister.) Of course, the entropy has to come from SOMEWHERE, typically from the system clock, and that's system dependant - bad clock timing fucks up a whole bunch of things on a PC.

If you want casino grade RNG though, you need dedicated hardware to provide the entropy. This, however, is a hobby project that has to run on normal computers, so, it's not going to be perfect.

[Journeyman]

Ryan-Drakel, congrats on the win! (Offered? Tell me more!)

Reaverbot, ooooh, you clever clever person, you I admit, I may have made the game a little bit more annoying to cheat at than most. Sorry!

radiogenicvore, oh!!!! Great catch. I had the game resolving a loss as soon as a hand results in you losing down to zero or lower. But, that isn't really fair, so I've added a check to ensure that the game won't end while a split remains unresolved.

eatmeplease, yus! This is quite true. To be fair to the game, though, I ran a simulation after I programmed the deck drawing mechanism: 3,000 times, it shuffled and drew a fresh deck, and every card was selected a very similar number of times. All within 2 times of each other except for one card, which was drawn once more than that.

Teruyo, Fantastic!!!!!!! Great observations, helpful screenshots!!! The negative money thing--I *think* I have it fixed now. I am assuming that it was the result of a double ending in a push (thus causing you to lose money due to the bug). The game is set up so that if a hand ends in a push, it never checks the game over condition. So, if you won or lost the next hand, the game would end either way, but as long as you tie, you can have negative amounts! I've elected to leave that as-is, and I have fixed the double-tie issue. So in theory, the negative thing shouldn't happen

Hey everyone! I've fixed the double-tie bug and the text misalignment issue! Re-download from original post! (Saved progress will load just fine).

[eatmeplease]

Yes, because your RNG is working. Did you use one that stops and waits for more when it runs out of entropy? Or is it like /dev/urandom where it keeps feeding randoms even when they aren't random anymore?

[Teruyo]

Now, suggestion time! I believe I heard somewhere that Vegas blackjack uses 4 decks, and they get shuffled whenever they want. As it is, it's kind of easy to count cards. You could also have it shuffle after every hand if you don't want that (getting rid of the shuffle sound effect, of course).