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gjarble ([personal profile] gjarble) wrote in [community profile] hs_olympics 2012-08-23 08:19 am (UTC)

Re: FILL: Team Karkat<3Karkat

Thank you so much for the Bro<3Grandpa rec! It means a lot to us, and I love seeing the reactions it's been getting. I figured I should say a bit about the thought process behind the card game since you seemed curious. You are correct that the starting point was Hearts. It's very simplified/stripped-down from what Windows Hearts players might be familiar with, because A. we didn't want to force the player to memorize a bunch of new rules just for that one segment of the flash, and B. I didn't have the time to program that stuff anyway. The only other modifications to the basic game were penalizing spades, especially the Jack of Spades, instead of hearts (so DD could make that crack at Jack's expense), and some modifications to the points system so the game would be shorter but still balanced (a genuine Hearts game takes, like, 30-60 minutes at least, which would be way too long compared to the rest of the flash). I'm glad you liked it!

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