Koi-Koi

Updated with nice new stuff. Find it on !Store ¹. :-)

What’s new in version 0.04 (2019/08/06):

• No longer counts yaku formed or games played if the player is cheating (by revealing opponent’s cards).

• Now correctly detects Teshi and Kuttsuki, that is to say, a player’s hand or the table having either four pairs or all the cards of a month.
  Either of these in a hand (doesn’t matter which) is an instant win for the dealer player (wins 6 points).
  However either of these on the table renders the game void.

• In order to test the above, there’s a way of making certain card patterns appear. And that’s all I’m saying about that. ;-)

• Updated help URL to the heyrick.eu domain.

• Fixed to not give blank name for plain cards in the pop-up info window.

• Tedious and boring – converted the application to use MessageTrans, so ought to be able to be translated into other languages now.

• To prove the point, people in France will see Koi-Koi appear in my unique brand of gibberish that I think looks sort of like French.

• Note that names of individual cards are not currently translated, as they are held in the card data file and not the program.

• Added a configuration option for “stupid scoring” where the idea that a Koi-Koi doubles the scoring is taken very literally with EVERY Koi-Koi announced in a game doubling the scoring. While this can make for some epic scores, it can seem like an impossibility to top a high score like 240 or so. By not having stupid scoring, high scores are more reasonable.

¹ Maybe there ought to be a registered virtual URI that can be used to auto-open an app description in !Store? Kind of like how my Manga software provides manga: URIs…

I’ll talk to Alan about store: URIs based on apps unique IDs. It’d be mostly OK, except for if someone deletes something and replaces it with a new ID, or creates a new entry for the same/similar product. That’d probably be more of an issue for commercial apps which might want to offer chargable upgrades, but I still think it si worth pursuing :)